Dynamo (sports organization)
Dynamo (also Dinamo ) is a sports company founded in 1923 with headquarters in Moscow . In the USSR , Dynamo belonged together with the military sports organization CSKA and the merged civil sports associations to the basis of the Soviet competitive sports system. In 1971, 45 sports were practiced under the umbrella of this organization, which at that time included numerous sports clubs and around 6,000 sports facilities and 43 schools for children and young people.
history
The Dynamo sports organization was officially founded on April 18, 1923 on Felix Dzerzhinski's initiative. The patronage was the then secret police GPU , one of the predecessors of the later Soviet security structures such as KGB , NKVD and MWD . During the entire Soviet period, the connection with the security authorities remained intact, many Dynamo athletes were formally held a rank in the police or state security service with a corresponding salary. When pro-Soviet governments were installed in the GDR and most of the Eastern European countries in the first few years after the Second World War , the name Dynamo was used again for similar sports associations (see Dynamo Sports Association ).
Over the years, numerous clubs of the Dynamo sports organization have achieved significant international success in various sports. In the 1960s and 1970s, the volleyball women from Dynamo Moscow dominated the European Cup , which they won 11 times during this time. The Dinamo Tbilisi basketball team did the same in 1962, when they continued what was then the Soviet streak in European basketball with their final victory over Real Madrid . In football, the Dynamo Kiev team won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1975 and 1986 . The field hockey players from Dinamo Alma-Ata entered the list of winners of the European Cup in 1982 and 1983 .
Today's structure
Currently, Dynamo is the all-Russian fitness-sports company based in Moscow. The company also has several subsidiaries abroad in Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Moldova, Romania, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Ukraine. Many of the sports clubs that belonged to it at the time are now independent associations and have retained their original names Dynamo or Dinamo .
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Dynamo ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Центральный совет Общества "Динамо" ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Организации ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- (Russian) All-Russia society of sports and physical training "Dinamo"
- (Russian) Official website