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Armed Forces (sports society)

System of sports clubs in Eastern European countries

Summary

System of sports clubs in Eastern European countries

The Sports Clubs of the Armed Forces, Physical Culture and Sports Association of the Soviet Armed Forces ( sportivnye kluby Armiy, SKA; , Fizkulturno-sportivnoe obyedinenie Vooruzhonnykh Sil SSSR), also called the Sports Clubs of the Soviet Ministry of Defense or simply Armed Forces or Army were a system of departmental sports clubs and one of the largest sports societies in the USSR.

Established at first within officers' clubs of the Red Army, after the Second World War they were reformed into sports clubs for all ranks in the armed forces. All the sports clubs were supervised by the Sports Committee of the Ministry of Defence of the USSR and the sports committees of military districts and naval fleets, with each district and fleet having its own club. The army clubs were often abbreviated as SKA and previously as SKVO and DO. The largest club was located in Moscow, CSKA Moscow ("C" standing for Central). The military sports clubs had an opportunity to enlist all top athletes of a country due to the mandatory conscription policies in force then.

Alongside the SKA teams in the Soviet Army, each service branch of the Armed Forces maintained service-wide clubs, with component teams coming under district or fleet club supervision.

Following the World War II, there was an acute competitiveness in all types of sports (i.e. football, ice hockey, basketball, etc.) between the Soviet Armed Forces Sports Association clubs and the clubs of the Dynamo representing Soviet security forces (MVD and KGB).

Regional multi-sport clubs

  • CSKA Moscow ("central" [main] club of the army)

    • football section as PFC CSKA in Soviet Top League
    • ice hockey section as HC CSKA in Soviet Higher League

  • VVS Moscow (smaller Moscow club of the Air Forces)

    • football section
    • basketball section, won the 1951–52 Soviet Top League in basketball

  • SKA Leningrad

    • ice hockey section

  • Rostov-on-Don (football)

  • Khabarovsk (bandy)

  • Yekaterinburg (bandy)

  • SKA Kyiv, converted to the Central Sports Club of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

    • football section, contributed to appearance of FC Arsenal Kyiv, disbanded in 2009

  • SKA Odesa, converted to the Odesa city's sport club in 1992

    • football section, merged with FC Chornomorets Odesa

  • SKA Lviv, disbanded

    • football section, moved to Drohobych and transformed into FC Halychyna Drohobych

  • SKA Alma-Ata, disbanded

    • basketball section, moved to Samara and merged with a local club into CSK VVS Samara

Medal recipients of the Armed Forces sports society at Olympics

City represented and sports discipline are given in parentheses.

Summer Olympics

[[Soviet Union at the 1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Summer Olympics]]

  1. Yuriy Lituyev (Leningrad, athletics)
  2. Boris Tokarev (Leningrad, athletics)
  3. Anatoly Konev (Moscow, basketball)
  4. Aleksandr Moiseyev (Moscow, basketball)
  5. Arkady Vorobyov (Sverdlovsk, weightlifting)
  • Dmytro Leonkin, Lviv ([[File:Med 1.png|14px|link=Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics]], gymnastics)
  • Dmytro Leonkin, Lviv ([[File:Med 3.png|14px|link=Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics]], gymnastics)

[[Soviet Union at the 1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Summer Olympics]]

  1. Yuriy Lituyev (Moscow, athletics)
  2. Yevgeniy Maskinskov (Saransk, athletics)
  3. Semyon Rzhishchin (Moscow, athletics)
  4. Boris Tokarev (Moscow, athletics)
  5. Viktor Tsybulenko (Kyiv, athletics)
  6. Vladimir Safronov (Chita, boxing)
  7. Arkady Vorobyov (Sverdlovsk, weightlifting)
  • Ivan Deriuhin, Kyiv
  • Vitali Romanenko, Poltava Oblast

[[Soviet Union at the 1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Summer Olympics]]

  1. Gusman Kosanov (Kishinev, athletics)
  2. Semyon Rzhishchin (Moscow, athletics)
  3. Viktor Tsybulenko (Kyiv, athletics)
  4. Yury Vlasov (Moscow, weightlifting)
  5. Arkady Vorobyov (Sverdlovsk, weightlifting)
  • Margarita Nikolaeva, Odesa
  • Ivan Bohdan, Kyiv

[[Soviet Union at the 1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Summer Olympics]]

  1. Oleg Fyodoseyev (Moscow, athletics)
  2. Gusman Kosanov (Alma-Ata, athletics)
  3. Edvin Ozolin (Leningrad, athletics)
  4. Oleg Grigoryev (Moscow, boxing)
  5. Stanislav Stepashkin (Moscow, boxing)
  6. Volodymyr Morozov (Krasnovodsk, canoeing)
  7. Grigory Kriss (Kyiv, fencing)
  8. Oleg Stepanov (Moscow, judo)
  9. Yury Vlasov (Moscow, weightlifting)
  10. Leonid Zhabotinsky (Odesa, weightlifting)

[[Soviet Union at the 1968 Summer Olympics|1968 Summer Olympics]]

  1. Hennadiy Bleznitsov (Kharkiv, athletics)
  2. Galina Bukharina (Moscow, athletics)
  3. Romuald Klim (Minsk, athletics)
  4. Jānis Lūsis (Riga, athletics)
  5. Volodymyr Morozov (Kyiv, canoeing)
  6. Valery Yardy (Moscow, cycling)
  7. Grigory Kriss (Kyiv, fencing)
  8. Viktor Sidyak (Lviv, fencing)
  9. Eduard Vinokurov (Leningrad, fencing)
  10. Leonid Zhabotinsky (Kyiv, weightlifting)

[[Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics|1972 Summer Olympics]]

  1. Nadezhda Besfamilnaya (Moscow, athletics)
  2. Galina Bukharina (Moscow, athletics)
  3. Jānis Lūsis (Riga, athletics)
  4. Veniamin Soldatenko (Alma-Ata, athletics)
  5. Sergei Belov (Moscow, basketball)
  6. Ivan Edeshko (Moscow, basketball)
  7. Alzhan Zharmukhamedov (Moscow, basketball)
  8. Vyacheslav Lemeshev (Moscow, boxing)
  9. Volodymyr Morozov (Kyiv, canoeing)
  10. Valery Yardy (Cheboksary, cycling)
  11. Grigory Kriss (Kyiv, fencing)
  12. Viktor Sidyak (Minsk, fencing)
  13. Gennadiy Tsygankov (Moscow, ice hockey)
  14. Eduard Vinokurov (Leningrad, fencing)

[[Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Summer Olympics]]

  1. Lidiya Alfeyeva (Moscow, athletics)
  2. Vera Anisimova (Moscow, athletics)
  3. Jānis Lūsis (Riga, athletics)
  4. Sergei Belov (Moscow, basketball)
  5. Ivan Edeshko (Moscow, basketball)
  6. Alzhan Zharmukhamedov (Moscow, basketball)
  7. Viktor Sidyak (Minsk, fencing)
  8. Yevgeni Chernyshov (Moscow, handball)
  9. Gennadiy Tsygankov (Moscow, ice hockey)
  10. Vladimir Bure (Moscow, swimming)
  11. Oleg Moliboga (Dnipropetrovsk, volleyball)
  12. Eduard Vinokurov (Leningrad, fencing)

[[Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Summer Olympics]]

  1. Yevgeni Chernyshov (Moscow, handball)
  2. Anatoli Fedyukin (Moscow, handball)
  • Oleg Moliboga, Dnipropetrovsk

[[Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Summer Olympics]]

  1. Dmitry Bilozerchev (Moscow, artistic gymnastics)
  2. Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (Odesa, athletics)

Olympians of the [[Unified Team at the Olympics|Unified Team]]

[[1992 Summer Olympics]]

  • Timur Taimazov ([[File:Med 2.png|14px|link=Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics]], weightlifting)

Winter Olympics

[[Soviet Union at the 1956 Winter Olympics|1956 Winter Olympics]]

  1. Fyodor Terentyev (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
  2. Nikolay Gusakov (Moscow, Nordic combined)

[[Soviet Union at the 1960 Winter Olympics|1960 Winter Olympics]]

  1. Vladimir Melanin (Kirov, biathlon)
  2. Gennady Vaganov (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
  3. Nikolay Gusakov (Leningrad, Nordic combined)

[[Soviet Union at the 1964 Winter Olympics|1964 Winter Olympics]]

  1. Vladimir Melanin (Kirov, biathlon)
  2. Rita Achkina (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
  3. Yevdokiya Mekshilo (Leningrad, cross-country skiing)
  4. Gennady Vaganov (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
  5. Nikolay Gusakov (Leningrad, Nordic combined)
  6. Nikolay Kiselyov (Leningrad, Nordic combined)

[[Soviet Union at the 1968 Winter Olympics|1968 Winter Olympics]]

  1. Rita Achkina (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
  2. Vladimir Voronkov (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
  3. Vladimir Belussov (Leningrad Oblast, ski jumping)

[[Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics|1972 Winter Olympics]]

  1. Vladimir Voronkov (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
  2. Irina Rodnina (Moscow, figure skating)
  3. Alexei Ulanov (Moscow, figure skating)

[[Soviet Union at the 1976 Winter Olympics|1976 Winter Olympics]]

  1. Zinaida Amosova (Novosibirsk, cross-country skiing)
  2. Nikolay Bazhukov (Syktyvkar, cross-country skiing)
  3. Sergey Savelyev (Moscow, cross-country skiing)
  4. Irina Rodnina (Moscow, figure skating)
  5. Valery Muratov (Kolomna, speed skating)

[[Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics|1980 Winter Olympics]]

[[Soviet Union at the 1984 Winter Olympics|1984 Winter Olympics]]

[[Soviet Union at the 1988 Winter Olympics|1988 Winter Olympics]]

  • Vyacheslav Bykov (Moscow, ice hockey)

Overall Olympic performance by the society

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for one team", as usual.

Summer Olympics

OlympicsAthletes[[Image:Med 1.pngGold]][[Image:Med 2.pngSilver]][[Image:Med 3.pngBronze]]
Total medals
195293773
195680121115
19606614156
1964112272912
196899172717
1972104331818
197697222215

Winter Olympics

OlympicsAthletes[[Image:Med 1.pngGold]][[Image:Med 2.pngSilver]][[Image:Med 3.pngBronze]]
Total medals
1956201311
196018209
1964241131
1968231321
1972241601
1976201612

Sources

Bibliography

    • for tables and lists on 1952-1976 Olympics

References

  1. {{GSEn. 106998. СССР. Физическая культура и спорт
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