Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR

Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR
First event	1956
Occur every	4 years
Last event	1991
Purpose	National sports festival
Headquarters	Moscow, Soviet Union

The Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR (Russian: Спартакиада народов СССР, Spartakiada narodov SSSR[1]) was a mass multi-sport event in the Soviet Union which lasted from 1956–1991. The competition was a descendant of the international Spartakiads, named after the classical escaped slave leader Spartacus. The USSR Spartakiad comprised two separate quadrennial competitions: the Summer Spartakiad and the Winter Spartakiad. The competitions were conducted between the constituent Republics of the Soviet Union.

In 1952 the Soviet Union decided to join the Olympic movement, and international Spartakiads ceased. However the term continued to exist for internal sports events in the Soviet Union of different levels, from local up to the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR. The first Soviet Spartakiad was held in 1956.[2] The competition had local level qualifying competitions, with the summer finals traditionally staged in the capital, Moscow, and the winter finals in Sverdlovsk.

Editions

A commemorative stamp for the 1956 Spartakiade, showing women's basketball

Summer

Edition	Year	City	Nation	Start Date	End Date
I	1956 ()	Moscow	Soviet Union	August	August
II	1959 ()	Moscow	Soviet Union	August	August
III	1963 ()	Moscow	Soviet Union	August	August
IV	1967 ()	Moscow	Soviet Union	July	August
V	1971 ()	Moscow	Soviet Union	August	August
VI	1975 ()	Moscow	Soviet Union	March	August
VII	1979 ()	Moscow	Soviet Union	August	August
VIII	1983 ()	Moscow	Soviet Union	May	August
IX	1986 ()	Moscow	Soviet Union	June	September
X	1991 ()	Moscow	Soviet Union	March	September

Winter

1982 Winter Spartakiad (post stamp)

Edition	Year	City	Nation	Start Date	End Date
I	1962 ()	Sverdlovsk	Soviet Union	March	March
II	1966 ()	Sverdlovsk, Gorky, Terskol and Kiev	Soviet Union	March	March
III	1974 ()	Sverdlovsk	Soviet Union	March	March
IV	1978 ()	Sverdlovsk	Soviet Union	March	March
V	1982 ()	Krasnoyarsk	Soviet Union	4 March	16 March
VI	1986 ()	Krasnoyarsk	Soviet Union	24 February	11 March
VII	1990 ()	Kiev	Soviet Union	March	March

Sports

Summer

Sports	1956	1959	1963	1967	1971	1975	1979	1983	1986	1991	Total
Archery					X	X	X	X	X	X	6
Athletics ()	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Badminton									X	X	2
Basketball	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		9
Boxing	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Chess		X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	8
Cycling (track)	X			X	X	X	X	X	X	X	8
Cycling (road)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Diving	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Equestrian	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Fencing	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Field hockey							X	X	X		3
Football ()	X						X	X	X		4
Gorodki									X	X	2
Gymnastics (acrobatic)									X	X	2
Gymnastics (artistic)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Gymnastics (rhythmic)							X	X	X	X	4
Gymnastics (trampolining)									X	X	2
Handball					X	X	X	X	X		5
Judo						X	X	X	X		4
Kayak and Canoe	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Kettlebell lifting										X	1
Modern pentathlon	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		9
Motorcycle sport		X									1
Rowing			X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	8
Sailing				X	X	X	X	X	X		6
Sambo					X	X	X	X	X	X	6
Shooting	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		9
Skeet shooting	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		9
Swimming	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Synchronized swimming								X	X	X	3
Table tennis		X	X					X	X	X	5
Tennis	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	9
Underwater sports										X	1
Volleyball (men)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Volleyball (women)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		9
Water polo	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		9
Water skiing									X		1
Weightlifting	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Wrestling (freestyle)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Wrestling (Greco-Roman)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10

References

Ukrainian: Спартакіада народів СРСР; Lithuanian: TSRS tautų spartakiada; Latvian: PSRS tautu spartakiāda
Catalogue of Postage Stamps of the USSR 1918–1974, “Soyuzpechat” Central Philatelic Agency (CPA) of the Ministry of Communications of the USSR publisher, Moscow, 1976. See also subsequent yearly catalogues.

External links

Spartakiads at RSSSF
Spartakiad at Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
Spartakiad in the Soviet Union
Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR in 1956 and 1959.
Kostenko, A. Summer spartakiads of peoples of the USSR. Blogs at sovsport.ru. 2011
Spartakiads of Peoples of the USSR. Dynamo Encyclopedia at Google Books. "OLMA Media Group", 2003. ISBN 9785224043996

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[1] Ukrainian: Спартакіада народів СРСР; Lithuanian: TSRS tautų spartakiada; Latvian: PSRS tautu spartakiāda

[2] Catalogue of Postage Stamps of the USSR 1918–1974, “Soyuzpechat” Central Philatelic Agency (CPA) of the Ministry of Communications of the USSR publisher, Moscow, 1976. See also subsequent yearly catalogues.