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Sport in the Soviet Union: Rugby Union in the Soviet Union, Friendship Games, Sambo, Glasnost Bowl, Sports School


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Rugby union in the Soviet Union, Friendship Games, Sambo, Glasnost Bowl, Sports school, Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, Fizkultura i sport, Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR, Starty nadezhd, List of Soviet Union top ten athletes of the year, Spartakiad, 1973 Summer Universiade, Sovetsky Sport, Red Sport International. Excerpt: Rugby union in the Soviet Union was a moderately popular sport. It was most popular in the Georgian SSR; parts of the Russian SFSR such as Moscow and certain regions in Siberia like Krasnoyarsk; and Almaty, the capital of Kazakh SSR. Rugby enjoyed a more limited popularity in the Ukrainian SSR, Minsk in the Byelorussian SSR and parts of the RSFSR such as Leningrad and areas in Southern Russia, including Krasnodar. Rugby gained a significant following due to the vast size of the Soviet Union, but was never a major sport; despite many attempts to develop the sport, which Soviet citizens came to nickname the "leather melon" due to the shape of the ball. Still, an early championship in 1960 gives an idea of the sheer scale of Soviet rugby: one hundred teams from over thirty cities took part. Although the name "Russia" or "Soviet Russia" was used as a synonym for the USSR, this was far from true, at least in rugby terms: there were regularly six or seven Georgians in the USSR side. Russians made up only about half of the Soviet population, the other half, nearly a hundred million Soviet citizens, were not Russian. Sports clubs were invariably not autonomous bodies, but were part of Palaces of Culture, or Universities, or Military Bodies, such as air force academies and the Red Army itself. These were the so called Voluntary Sports Societies of the Soviet Union. As David Lane writes in the Politics and Society in the USSR: "Palaces of Culture" are the equivalent of the Engli...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156614716
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156614716
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Rugby Union in the Soviet Union, Friendship Games, Sambo, Glasnost Bowl, Sports School
  • Width: 189 mm


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