Fizkultura i sport (publisher)

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Fizkultura i sport (Russian: Физкультура и спорт, lit. trans.: Physical Culture and Sports) is a Russian publisher of sports books and magazines. It was established in 1923 in the USSR. Its logo depicts the famous sculpture Discobolus by Myron.

"Fizkultura i sport" was the main (though, not exclusive) sports publisher of the USSR. It was a structural part of the State Committee for Publishing Houses, Printing Plants, and the Book Trade by the Council of Ministers of the USSR. It published books and booklets, popularizing sports, textbooks, methodical yearbooks on many sports disciplines, popular and methodic literature (manuals for physical training on one's own, manuals on the preparation to pass GTO tests), books on tourism, fishing, hunting, chess. In 1975, 113 books were published with the total circulation of 6.2 million. By 1991 amount of books, published per year, reached 150.

Since 1972 "Fizkultura i sport" published the yearbook "Panorama of the Sports Year" (Russian: Панорама спортивного года), that apart from articles on famous athletes and sports life of the country, contained results from all major international competitions (such as Olympic Games, World Championships, European Championships) and national competitions (Spartakiads, USSR Championships, etc.), held that year, for all sports, cultivated in the USSR. A lot of books were published on the 1980 Summer Olympics, Friendship Games, Goodwill Games and other major international events.

There were several series of biographical books on famous Soviet athletes and sportspeople, including "Heroes of the Olympic Games" (Russian: Герои Олимпийских игр), "World Sport Stars" (Russian: Звёзды мирового спорта), "Hearts, Given Up to Sports" (Russian: Сердца, отданные спорту). For example, in the latter series, books about Shavarsh Karapetyan, Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaytsev, Alevtina Kolchina and Pavel Kolchin, Vladislav Tretiak, Vsevolod Bobrov, Modestas Paulauskas, Mikhail Yakushin and other notable Soviet athletes were published. Many Soviet book series had logos, the one of "Hearts, Given Up to Sports" series was the Olympic Torch. Besides, its specifical feature was the motto of the series in Russian, that was present inside each book: "Когда серебряные трубы возвещают победу, они зовут на пьедестал не только победителя, они славят СПОРТ: разум и силу, мужество и волю, верность, отвагу и честь; они славят ЛЮДЕЙ, отдавших сердца спорту, зовущих своими делами, своим примером на жизненный подвиг!"[1] A rough translation into English would be:

"When silver trumpets announce the victory, they invite on the pedestal not just a winner, they sing the praises of SPORTS: of mind and of strength, of courage and of will, of faithfulness, of bravery and of honour; they sing the praises of PEOPLE, who gave up their hearts to sports, who call upon the life exploit by their example!"


"Fizkultura i sport" also published six magazines: Fizkultura i sport, Athletics, Chess in the USSR, etc. It was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1973.

After the breakup of the USSR, the amount of publications by the publisher greatly declined. But although today it publishes some 20 books a year, 5 to 10 thousand copies each, there were some signs of the revival in the latest years. Since 1995 the publisher is not under control of the government, it's the joint-stock company.

References and footnotes

1. ^ Yakushin, Mikhail (1988). Everlasting football's mystery (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. 2. 
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Anthem
Hymn of the Russian Federation


Capital
(and largest city) Moscow

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Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view. In some cases, authors may be their own publishers.
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated USSR, Russian: (help info ) ; tr.
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The Discobolus of Myron ("discus thrower" Greek Δισκοβόλος του Μύρωνα) is a famous Roman marble copy of a lost Greek bronze original, completed during the zenith of the classical
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Myron of Eleutherae (Greek Μύρων) working c. 480-440 BCE, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-fifth century BCE.[1] He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica.
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Council of Ministers of the USSR (Russian: Совет Министров СССР, tr.
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Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR (Russian: «Готов к труду и обороне СССР»
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Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists
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Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering. By extension, the term fishing is applied to pursuing other aquatic animals such as various types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, frogs, and some edible marine invertebrates.
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Hunting is the practice of pursuing animals for food, recreation, trade or for their products. In modern use, the term refers to regulated and legal hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of animals contrary to law.
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Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. Sometimes called Western Chess or International Chess to distinguish it from its predecessors and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe in the second half of the 15th
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Olympic Games (often referred to simply as The Olympics or The Games[1]) is an international multi-sport event subdivided into summer and winter sporting events. The summer and winter games are each held every four years (an Olympiad[2]).
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Spartakiad initially was the name of an international sports event that the Soviet Union attempted to oppose the Olympics. (In Russian, there is a certain parallelism in the names: "Spartakiada" and "Olimpiada".
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1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were held in Moscow in the Soviet Union. Another candidate in the bid to organize the Olympics was Los Angeles.
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The Friendship Games or Druzhba Games or Druzhba-84 Competition was an international multisport event that was held in 1984 in nine different countries under the motto: "Sport, Friendship, Peace".
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The Goodwill Games were an international sports competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s. The 1979 invasion of Afghanistan caused the USA and other Western countries to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in
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Shavarsh Vladimirovich Karapetyan (Russian: Шаварш Владимирович Карапетян
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Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Soviet Union
Figure skating
Gold 1972 Sapporo Pairs
Gold 1976 Innsbruck Pairs
Gold 1980 Lake Placid Pairs Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina (Russian:
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Zaytsev or Zaitsev (Russian: Зайцев) is a common Russian last name. It is stemming from the word заяц (hare). Zaytseva or Zaitseva is a feminine version.
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Gold 1964 Innsbruck 3 x 5 km
Silver 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 3 x 5 km
Bronze 1964 Innsbruck 5 km
Bronze 1968 Grenoble 5 km
Bronze 1968 Grenoble 3 x 5 km
World Championships
Gold 1958 Lahti 10 km
Gold
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Gold 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 4 x 10 km
Bronze 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 15 km
Bronze 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 30 km
Bronze 1964 Innsbruck 4 x 10 km
World Championships
Silver 1958 Lahti 15 km
Silver 1958 Lahti 30 km
Silver
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Olympic medal record
Men's Ice Hockey
Gold 1972 Sapporo |
Gold 1976 Innsbruck |
Silver 1980 Lake Placid |
Gold 1984 Sarajevo |
For the fencer, see Vladislav Tretiak (fencer).

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Olympic medal record
Men's Ice Hockey
Gold 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Team

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov (Russian: Всеволод
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Olympic medal record
Men's Basketball
Gold Munich 1972 USSR
Bronze Mexico City 1968 USSR Modestas Paulauskas (March 19 1945 in Kretinga) was a Lithuanian basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team in Basketball at the 1972 Summer
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Olympic Flame, Olympic Fire, Olympic Torch, Olympic Light, Olympic Eye, and Olympic Sun is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, when a fire was
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