Armed Forces (sports society)

The Armed Forces sports society (Russian: Вооруженные Силы (ВС)) was one of the largest sports societies in the USSR. In the Soviet era all CSKA and SKA teams that resided in the Soviet Union belonged to the Armed Forces sports society. There was one SKA club in each military district and naval fleet of the USSR, and a central club - CSKA. SKAs maintained several teams for different sports disciplines, as did CSKA. Armed Forces sports society functioned under the leadership of the Sports Committee of the Ministry of Defence of the USSR and sports committees of military districts and naval fleets.

Members of the society at Olympics

City represented and sports discipline are given in parentheses.

Summer Olympics

1952 Summer Olympics

1. Yuri Lituyev (Leningrad, athletics)
2. Boris Tokaryev (Leningrad, athletics)
3. Anatoly Konev (Moscow, basketball)
4. Aleksandr Moiseyev (Moscow, basketball)
5. Arkady Vorobyov (Sverdlovsk, weightlifting)

1956 Summer Olympics

1. Yuri Lituyev (Moscow, athletics)
2. Yevgeni Maskinskov (Saransk, athletics)
3. Semyon Rzhishchin (Moscow, athletics)
4. Boris Tokaryev (Moscow, athletics)
5. Viktor Tsybulenko (Kiev, athletics)
6. Arkady Vorobyov (Sverdlovsk, weightlifting)

1960 Summer Olympics

1. Gusman Kosanov (Kishinev, athletics)
2. Semyon Rzhishchin (Moscow, athletics)
3. Viktor Tsybulenko (Kiev, athletics)
4. Yury Vlasov (Moscow, weightlifting)
5. Arkady Vorobyov (Sverdlovsk, weightlifting)

1964 Summer Olympics

1. Oleg Fedoseyev (Moscow, athletics)
2. Gusman Kosanov (Alma-Ata, athletics)
3. Edvins Ozolin (Leningrad, athletics)
4. Oleg Grigoryev (Moscow, boxing)
5. Volodymyr Morozov (Krasnovodsk, canoeing)
6. Grigory Kriss (Kiev, fencing)
7. Oleg Stepanov (Moscow, judo)
8. Yury Vlasov (Moscow, weightlifting)
9. Leonid Zhabotinsky (Zaporozhye, weightlifting)

1968 Summer Olympics

1. Gennadiy Bliznetsov (Kharkov, athletics)
2. Galina Bukharina (Moscow, athletics)
3. Romuald Klim (Minsk, athletics)
4. Jānis Lūsis (Riga, athletics)
5. Volodymyr Morozov (Kiev, canoeing)
6. Valery Yardy (Moscow, cycling)
7. Grigory Kriss (Kiev, fencing)
8. Viktor Sidyak (Lvov, fencing)
9. Leonid Zhabotinsky (Kiev, weightlifting)

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. Volodymyr Morozov (Kiev, canoeing)
9. Valery Yardy (Cheboksary, cycling)
10. Grigory Kriss (Kiev, fencing)
11. Viktor Sidyak (Minsk, fencing)
12. Gennadiy Tsygankov (Moscow, ice hockey)

1976 Summer Olympics

1. Lidia 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. Gennadiy Tsygankov (Moscow, ice hockey)
9. Vladimir Bure (Moscow, swimming)
10. Oleg Moliboga (Dnepropetrovsk, volleyball)

Winter Olympics

1956 Winter Olympics

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

1960 Winter Olympics

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

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 Fyodorovich Kiselyov (Leningrad, nordic combined)

1968 Winter Olympics

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

1972 Winter Olympics

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

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)

Other Armed Forces sports society athletes

1. Yuriy Sedykh
2. Viatcheslav Ekimov
3. Pavel Pegov
4. Nikolay Gulyayev
5. Nikolay Chernetsky
6. Oleg Kimovich Vasiliev
7. Vladimir Salnikov
8. Nikolay Zimyatov
9. Elena Vodorezova
10. Sergey Litvinov
11. Aleksandr Kovalenko
12. Igor Paklin
13. Pyotr Zayev
14. Igor Zhelezovski
15. Vladimir Mikhaylovich Smirnov (skier)
16. Afanasijs Kuzmins
17. Ivan Klementjev
18. Nicolae Juravschi
19. Anatoly Alyabyev
20. Viktor Denisov
21. Mikhail Devyatyarov
22. Gennadiy Prigoda
23. Alexander Zavyalov
24. Valery Medvedtsev
25. Vladimir Sakhnov
26. Vladimir Alikin
27. Alexander Kurlovitch
28. Anatoly Khrapaty
29. Aleksandr Panfilov
30. Viktor Rybakov
31. Olga Bondarenko
32. Sergey Fokichev
33. Oleg Makarov
34. Pyotr Pochenchuk

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 all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different sports societies in one team.

Summer Olympics

Olympics	Athletes				Total medals
1952	93	7	7	3	17
1956	80	12	11	15	38
1960	66	14	15	6	35
1964	112	27	29	12	68
1968	99	17	27	17	71
1972	104	33	18	18	69
1976	97	22	22	15	59

Winter Olympics

Olympics	Athletes				Total medals
1956	20	13	1	1	15
1960	18	2	0	9	11
1964	24	11	3	1	15
1968	23	13	2	1	16
1972	24	16	0	1	17
1976	20	16	1	2	19

See also

• Soviet Union at the Summer Olympics
• Soviet Union at the Winter Olympics

Sources

• Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed. ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help) - for tables and lists on 1952-1976 Olympics