Sport of the Country of Soviets .

Sport of the Country of Soviets . , 1979 (57:46)

Annotation: About the sport development history in the USSR, how massive it is, democracy of physical education.

Film description: 1 hour - Meeting of Soviet athletes Karpova and others. Story about gymnast Andrianova. Family Andrianova. Andrianov exercise on the uneven bars. Swimming competitions for boys and girls in Artek ( "Start of hope"). Heat. Press conference Lord Killanin. 2 hours - Leonov. Ran athletes, race reindeer sledding. Along the path Medeu runs Sadchikova. Stadium during the World Cup in volleyball. Volleyball match of the Soviet Union and Cuba. Athletics championships in Prague. V. Trofimenko - pole vault, steeplechase (women). 3 hours - Jumping B. Barnauskene, Yaschenko. Y. Vardanyan trains. Trained gymnast E. Mukhin, N. Shaposhnikov. G. songbird in the class sambo wrestlers coached children: shows techniques. G. Shatkov working in the studio. 4 hours - A. Freedom. Training biathletes. 4-5 hours - Episodes of hockey matches teams of the USSR, Canada, Czechoslovakia. Commented N. Ozerov. Football match: LA Yashin in goal. 6 pm - Meeting Anatoly Karpov at the airport. Favor Karpov. Sports in Moscow: the Luzhniki stadium, Krylatskom and others. Meeting the organizing committee, Olympics-80. Corps Olympic village.

Source description 1: Children attending various sport hobby groups (hockey, gymnastics, swimming).
A meeting of the Swimmers of the USSR National Team: Y. Bogdanova, L. Kachushite.
The gymnasts N. Andrianov and E. Mukhina are going down the airplane ladder.
Greeting of the World Champion A. Karpov in the airport.
The gymnast M. Filatova during the competition.
The gymnastics World Champion N. Andrianov is training boys in the gym, showing exercises on the trampoline.
Andrianov’s coach N. Tolkachev.
A picture of Adrianov in his childhood.
Newsreel of 1976: the XXI Olympic Games in the city of Montreal, Andrianov is performing exercises on still rings, is standing on the top of the podium (first place).
The city of Vladimir, the Golden Gates (formerly main city gate, an ancient Russian architecture monument).
The Andrianovs – N. Andrianov, his son and wife – the gymnast L. Burda-Andrianova are walking in the winter forest.
The Andrianovs are spending their vacations on the seashore.
Andrianov is training in the gym.
Classes in the sports school: boys are performing exercises.
The final of the sports contest for schoolchildren “Starty Nadezhd” [“Starts of Hopes”].
in the Pioneer Camp “Artek”: long jumps, running, swimming.
Sportsmen-participants in the Pioneer Olympic Games.
The USSR national swimmers team members are training in the swimming pool, among them V. Salnikov, Lina Kachushite, Yulia Bogdanova.
The swimmers’ coach – S. Voitsekhovsky with a correspondent.
The Chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Lord M. Killanin is speaking at a press-conference in Moscow.
Press-conference participants, correspondents.
Girls-sportsmen are training in the park.
Newsreel of 1978: the Republican Sports and Athletic Competitions in the city of Erevan, festively decorated streets, people are walking to the stadium.

Source description 2: Newsreel of 1978: the opening of the Republican Sports and Athletic Competitions in Erevan: trumpets are playing, people are carrying flags, the astronaut A. Leonov is among sports leaders, pioneers are giving him flowers.
Gymnasts’ performance on the stadium, audience on the grandstands.
Runners are getting ready to start, the starting pistol is firing, men are running and finishing.
Children are skiing and sledding from the mountain.
Reindeer teams are rushing by.
Cyclists are riding.
Yachts in the sea, yachtsmen.
Skaters are running along the ice track of the skating ring “Medeo”.
The World Volleyball Championship in the USSR in the city of Leningrad: Japanese sportsmen are getting off the bus, spectators on the grandstands are waving flags, cheering; the sportsmen are exchanging souvenirs.
Game fragments of the World Women Volleyball Championship: Brasil – China, USSR – Cuba.
Championship Cup is being handed out to the team of Cuba.
The Athletics European Championship in the city of Prague: the bar is being raised, the sportsman V. Trofimenko is running up with the pole and clearing the bar; the audience.
The obstacle race: T. Zelentsova and other sportsmen are starting, the finish, T. Zelentsova is the first to finish, they are hugging her.
The Olympic Champion Y. Sedykh is throwing a hammer, the audience.

Source description 3: The World Champions V. Yashchenko (high jumps) and V. Bardauskene (broad jumps) are warming up on the stadium.
At the European Championship in Prague: Bardauskene is jumping, the audience is applauding; Yashchenko is jumping, giving autographs.
Armenia: the city of Leninakan – streets, a group of young people is going down the staircase, among them there are Y. Vardanyan with his coach S. Vardanyan.
Moscow: young athletes are training in the gym on the mat.
The USSR national gymnastics team training – Azaryan, Dityatin, M. Philatova, N. Shaposhnikova, E. Mukhina.
The amateur coach G. Pevunov is training young unarmed self-defense wrestlers in the gym, boys are practicing techniques.
Twice world boxing champion G. Shatkov in the gym; he is training young boxers on the ring; Shatkov is at home in Leningrad, his daughter with the child.
Magazines with the pictures of Shatkov vs. Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali) fights in the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960.
Leningrad streets, the monument to Peter I, a barge is sailingalong the Neva River, passers-by in the street, the monument to Pushkin, people on the benches in the park, the Neva River embankment.
Newsreel of 1952: the Olympic Games in the city of Helsinki: Y. Tyukalov in a canoe is the first to finish, the audience is applauding.
Tyukalov is working in his workshop (he is a chiseling master) – the workshop interior, Tyukalov’s works.

Source description 4: The USSR National Biathlon Team Members are training, the team coach – the Olympic Champion A. Privalov.
Olympic Champions N. Kruglov and A. Tikhonov – Members of the National Team – are practicing the shooting.
Winter landscapes: mountains, forest.
Sunday in the Ukhtuss Mountains near the city of Sverdlovsk, factory sports competitions are being held: young people with skis are passing by the buses, skiers are running along the forest, skiers are waxing the skis, smiling.
Skiers’ trainings: Kulakova, Savelyev are running along the ski-track, sportsmen are running along the special summer track.
The wedding of the Olympic Champion, Soviet Army Officer S. Savelyev and E. Yavorskaya.
Skiers’ coach V. Kamensky is congratulating the bride and the fiancee.
Savelyev is roll-skating to the coaches.
V. Kamensky.
Yashchenko with the coach on the stadium.
Andrianov with his coach Tolkachev.
The coach V. Kapitonov with the cyclists.
Newsreel of 1960: the Olympic Games in the city of Rome: two cyclists are riding by, the assistant is running along and watering the cyclist, Italian sportsman Livio Trappe, the finish, Trappe is crying, Kapitonov is being lifted up, Kapitonov is on the podium.
Flags of the countries participants in the Motocross Competition (near Leningrad): the audience with the binoculars.
Racers are running, the Soviet racer G. Moiseev is leading.
Motorcyclists, the finish.
The motocross winner G. Moiseev is passing by.
Press photographer.
Boys are putting on the hockey uniform, young hockey players are on the field.
The ceremony of awarding the Certificates of Entrolment in the Moscow “Dynamo” hockey team, the Olympic Champions V. Vasilyev, A. Maltsev are giving certificates, the boys’ parents are watching.
Hockey Teams are entering the field (Soviet, Czechoslovak, Canadian, Swedish, Finnish).

Source description 5: Game fragments of the Hockey World Championship, matches: Czechoslovakia – Sweden, Canada – Finland, USSR – Canada, USSR – Czechoslovakia, highlights of the matches, audience on the grandstands (the actor N. Kryuchkov is among the audience), the commentator N. Ozerov is reporting, a cameraman.
The football player L. Yashin is at home, giving an interview.
Yashin’s awards – medals and the prize “Golden Ball”.
Newsreel: fragments of matches with Yashin’s participation: players of the USSR National Team including Yashin are on the football field in the city of London, Yashin is taking the ball sent by the Italian forward Mazollo, high spots of the games.
Yashin is passing by the grandstands, the audience is greeting him, a football match moment, Yashin among a group of people watching the game.
Flags of the countries participating in the Figure Skating Competition for the prize of the newspaper “Nouvelle de Moscou” (Soviet newspaper issued in the French language); crystal skates.
The fragments of figure skaters’ performance.
The Olympic Champion in ice-dancing L. Pakhomova is talking to young figure skaters.
I. Rodnina and A. Zaitsev are on the grandstand among the audience.
M. Cherkasova and S. Shakhray are performing.
V. Kovalev.
I. Moiseeva and A. Minenkov.
N. Lininchuk and G. Karponosov.
The audience is watching and applauding.

Source description 6: Press photographers and cameramen are working.
Picture of the World Chess Champion A. Karpov.
Greeting of Karpov in the airport.
Ceremony of awarding Karpov in the Kremlin: the General Secretary of CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev is reading out the complimentary speech and awarding Karpov with the Red Banner of Labor.
Karpov is expressing his gratitude.
Awards received by the Soviet sportsmen in international competitions.
Moscow: the Kremlin, the building of the Library named after Lenin, Kalinin Avenue, the Bolshoi Theatre building.
The theatre, passers-by in the street.
The poster “Olympic Bear” (mascot at the Olympic Games 1980 in Moscow). Models of Olympic facilities.
The construction site of the Olympic construction projects, cars are going by.
The Stadium named after Lenin (Luzhniki Stadium): the Grand Sports Arena, the construction site of the Universal Gymnasium “Druzhba” [“Friendship”], the Krylatskoe District: the channel for row competitions, grandstands, a view of the river.
A house in the Olympic Village (a new Moscow district), a living room interior.
The meeting of the Chairman of the 1980 Olympic Games Organization Committee I. T. Novikov with the representatives of a foreign (Italian) sports organization, talks at the table.
International Exhibition “Sport – 78”.
The exhibits – balls, sportswear, equipment, TV-sets.
Cyclists, the gymnast Markelov before the performance, shot thrower Sedykh on the field.
Newsreel: the luminous Olympic rings, cup with the fire.
Newsreel of 1956: the Olympic Games in the city of Melbourne – V. Kuts is running.
Newsreel: the gymnast L. Latynina is on the podium, skater Grishin, Sanev (high jumper) is rejoicing over his victory, V. Brumel is on the podium, Y. Vlasov is lifting up the weight, Vlasov is being lifted up, L. Skoblikova, the Olympic Games winner in race walking Golubnichy, hockey players are embracing one another, the USSR Hockey Team is going down the airplane ladder (after the victory in the Games in the city of Innsbruck), the gymnast Turishcheva is giving autographs, the athlete V. Borzov, weight-lifter L. Zhabotinsky on the podium.
A photograph: sportsmen are running, swimmers’ start, a young hockey player, a cyclist.
Zelentsova is running, V. Borzov is taking the baton.
A cyclist is riding, Sedykh is throwing the shot, racers are running, the gymnast Andrianov is on the horizontal bar, Trofimenko is clearing the bar (pole vaults), the gymnast E. Mukhina is is buried in thought, at the training.

Directors: Rybakova A.

Operators: Istomin A., Orlov U., Semin V.

Script writers: Itskov I., Rybakova A.

Text writers: Itskov I.