The only source of information about his pre-revolutionary biography is his personal affair as a member of the Universal Military Training courses, discovered by the historian of the Russian hand-to-hand combat systems MN Lukashev in the Central State Archive of the USSR.
At the rank Spiridonov met senior pupil, schoolgirl, and a merchant's daughter Claudia Chistova, who began to help in his high-school classes.
A few months later, he again entered the service, but in the military unit, which was based not far from its restriction – in the 238th Klyazminskoe reserve battalion, formed more by Peter I.
[1] He was seriously wounded, he spent a year in the hospital, after which he was "dismissed from the service with the production of the next rank and awarded the uniform and pensions of a soldier.
In March 1918 in Moscow took place Vsevobuch "weightlifting" (this term is then understood lifting weights, French struggle, English boxing, tug of war, "the cast of gravity", "throwing light stone" and "pushing the stone"); Spiridonov has to preserve the unique photos of participants and organizers of this championship, which sits on a place of honor.
At the same time he was a member of the Moscow Imperial River Yacht-Club, the head of the school of Jiu-Jitsu on the preparation of the police trainers at the Main Department of the workers 'and peasants' militia, teaching sports disciplines in one of the railway organizations Vsevobuch and became head of the Moscow District courses sports instructors pre-conscription training of Comrade Lenin, where then there was the subject of "protection and attack without weapons At the beginning of 1923 in Moscow it was established Dynamo Sports Club, which was among the founders and Viktor Spiridonov, organized with the "Dynamo" section of offense and defense.
In February 1929 the first championship of the Moscow "Dynamo" was held to teach Spiridonov the kind of struggle in the clothes referred to initially just "self-defense", then as a tribute to fashion while reductions, began to call the "system" itself" and subsequently appeared under the name samoz.
In early 2012, members of the NP "Nekropolists Association Non-Commercial Partnership " found the grave of Spiridonov in poor condition.
In December 2020, a memorial created by the founders of Sambo martial art Viktor Spiridonov, Vasili Oshchepkov and Anatoly Kharlampiev was erected at Luzhniki Olympic Complex.