Sports of the Soviet Union (1979)

Children involved in various sports sections (hockey, gymnastics, swimming).

Meeting the swimmers of the USSR national team: Yu.

Bogdanova, L. Kachushite.

Gymnasts N. Andrianov and E. Mukhina descend the steps of the plane.

Meeting the world champion A. Karpov at the airport.

Gymnast M. Filatova during the competition.

World champion in gymnastics N. Andrianov trains in the gym with boys, demonstrates exercises on the trampoline.

Andrianov's coach N. Tolkachev.

Andrianov's childhood photo.

Chronicle of 1976: The XXI Olympic Games in Montreal, Andrianov performs exercises on the rings, stands in first place on the podium.

The city of Vladimir, Golden Gate.

The Andrianov family - N. Andrianov, son, wife - gymnast L. Burda-Andrianova on a walk in the winter forest.

The Andrianov family on vacation by the sea.

Andrianov trains in the gym.

Classes at the sports school: boys do exercises.

The final competition of schoolchildren in "Artek" "Starts of Hope": long jump, running, swimming in the pool.

Athletes-participants of the Olympic Games among pioneers.

Training of swimmers of the USSR national team in the pool, among them V. Salnikov, Lina Kachushite, Yulia Bogdanova.

The swimmers' coach - S. Voitsekhovsky with a correspondent.

Lord M. Killanin, the President of the IOC, speaks at a press conference in Moscow (simultaneously in English).

Participants of the press conference, correspondents.

Female athletes train in the park.

Chronicle of 1978: the Republican Spartakiad in Yerevan, festively decorated streets, people going to the stadium.

Chronicle of 1978: opening of the Spartakiad in Yerevan: fanfarists play, flags are carried, among the sports leaders is cosmonaut A. Leonov, pioneers give him flowers.

Athletes perform at the stadium, spectators are in the stands.

Runners prepare to start, the starting pistol fires, men run and finish.

Children go down the mountain on skis and sleds.

Reindeer sleds rush by.

Cyclists on the track.

Yachts in the sea, yachtsmen.

Speed skaters run along the ice track of the Medeo skating rink.

USSR World Volleyball Championship in Leningrad: Japanese athletes get off the bus, spectators with flags in the stands wave and chant; athletes exchange souvenirs.

Fragments of the games of the World Volleyball Championship among women's teams: Brazil - China; USSR - Cuba.

Presentation of the championship cup to the Cuban team.

European Athletics Championships in Prague: the bar is raised, athlete V. Trofimenko runs up with the pole and clears the height; spectators.

Steeplechase: T. Zelentsova and other athletes start, finish, T. Zelentsova is first, she is embraced.

Olympic champion Yu.

Sedykh throws the hammer, spectators.

At the stadium, world record holders V. Yashchenko (high jump) and V. Bardauskene (long jump) are warming up.

At the European Championships in Prague, Bardauskene jumps, the spectators applaud; Yashchenko jumps, gives an autograph.

Armenia: the city of Leninakan - a report along the streets, a group of young people are descending the stairs, among them - Yu.

Vardanyan with coach S. Vardanyan.

Moscow: young gymnasts are training on the carpet in the hall.

Training of the USSR national gymnastics team - Azaryan, Dityatin, M. Filatova, N. Shaposhnikova, E. Mukhina.

Amateur coach G. Pevunov is training in the gym with young sambo wrestlers, the boys are performing techniques.

Two-time world boxing champion G. Shatkov in the gym; in the ring, he is training young boxers; Shatkov at home in Leningrad, his daughter with a child.

Magazines with photographs of Shatkov's meetings with K. Clay (Muhammad Ali) at the Olympics in Rome in 1960. A report on the streets of Leningrad, a monument to Peter the Great, a barge sailing along the Neva, passers-by on the street, a monument to Pushkin, people on benches in the park, the Neva embankment.

Chronicle of 1952: Olympic Games in Helsinki: Y. Tyukalov in a kayak finishes first, the audience applauds.

Tyukalov works in his studio (he is an artist-chaser) - the interior of the studio, Tyukalov's works.

Members of the USSR national biathlon team are training, the team's coach is Olympic champion A. Privalov.

Olympic champions N. Kruglov and A. Tikhonov, members of the team, are training in shooting.

Winter landscape: mountains, forest.

Sunday in the Ukhtus Mountains near Sverdlovsk, factory competitions are being held: young people with skis are passing by buses, skiers are riding through the forest, skiers are waxing their skis and smiling.

Skiers are training: Kulakova and Savelyev are running along the ski track, athletes are running along the special summer track.

Wedding of Olympic champion, SA officer S. Savelyev and E. Yavorskaya.

Skiers' coach V. Kamensky congratulates the bride and groom.

Savelyev is rollerblading up to the coaches. V. Kamensky - medium, large shots.

Yashchenko with his coach at the stadium.

Andrianov with his coach Tolkachev.

Coach V. Kapitonov with cyclists.

Chronicle of 1960: Olympic Games in Rome: two cyclists ride by, a running assistant pours water on a cyclist, Italian athlete Livio Trappe, finish line, Trappe cries, Kapitonov is carried in people's arms, Kapitonov on the podium.

Flags of the countries participating in the motocross competitions (near Leningrad): spectators with binoculars.

Racers on the track, Soviet racer G. Moiseyev is in the lead.

Motorcyclists, finish line.

Motocross winner G. Moiseyev passes by.

Photo reporter.

Boys put on hockey uniforms, young hockey players play on the field.

Presentation of certificates of enrollment in the Moscow Dynamo hockey team, Olympic champions V. Vasiliev, A. Maltsev presenting, the boys' parents watch. hockey teams entering the field (Soviet, Czechoslovakian, Canadian, Swedish, Finnish).

Fragments of the World Ice Hockey Championship games, matches between Czechoslovakia and Sweden, Canada and Finland, USSR and Canada, USSR and Czechoslovakia, tense moments, spectators in the stands (actor N. Kryuchkov among the spectators), commentator N. Ozerov and a TV cameraman report.

Football player L. Yashin gives an interview at his home (synchronously).

Yashin's awards - medals and the Golden Ball.

Chronicle: fragments of matches with L. Yashin's participation: players of the USSR national team with Yashin on the football field in London, Yashin takes the ball sent by the Italian forward Mazzolla, tense moments of the games.

Yashin walks past the spectator stands, the audience applauds him, a moment from a football match, Yashin is among a group of people watching the game.

Flags of the countries participating in the figure skating competitions for the Nouvelle de Moscou prize; a crystal skate.

Fragments of the figure skaters' performances.

Olympic champion in ice dancing L. Pakhomova is talking to young figure skaters. I. Rodnina and A. Zaitsev are on the stands among the spectators. M. Cherkasova and S. Shakhrai are performing. V. Kovalev. I. Moiseyeva and A. Minenkov. N. Linichuk and G. Karponosov.

The spectators are watching and applauding.

Photo and film reporters at work.

Photo of the world chess champion A. Karpov.

Meeting Karpov at the airport.

Awarding of Karpov in the Kremlin: Brezhnev reads out a greeting and presents Karpov with the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

Karpov expresses gratitude (synchronously).

Awards received by Soviet athletes at international competitions.

Moscow: The Kremlin, the Lenin Library building, Kalinin Avenue, the Bolshoi Theater building, passers-by on the street.

The "Olympic Bear" poster.

Models of Olympic facilities.

Construction of Olympic facilities, cars driving by.

Lenin Stadium (Luzhniki): The Large Sports Arena, construction of the Druzhba sports complex, Krylatskoye: rowing canal, stands, view of the river.

House in the Olympic Village, interior of a living room.

Meeting of the chairman of the 1980 Olympic organizing committee I.T. Novikov with representatives of a foreign (Italian) sports organization, conversation at the table.

International exhibition "Sport - 78".

Exhibits - balls, sportswear, devices, televisions.

Cyclists, gymnast Markelov before the performance, shot thrower Sedykh on the field.

Chronicle: Glowing Olympic rings, a bowl with fire.

Chronicle of 1956: Olympics in Melbourne - V. Kuts runs.

Chronicle: Gymnast L. Latynina on the podium, speed skater Grishin, Sanev (high jumper) rejoices in his victory, V. Brumel on the podium, Yu.

Vlasov lifts the barbell, Vlasov is being pumped up, L. Skoblikova, Olympic race walking winner Golubnichy, hockey players hug, the USSR hockey team descends the steps of the plane (after winning the Innsbruck Games), gymnast L. Turishcheva signs autographs, track and field athlete V. Borzov, weightlifter L. Zhabotinsky on the podium.

Photos: athletes running, swimmers starting, young hockey player, cyclist Zelentsova running, V. Borzov taking the baton.

A cyclist on the track, Sedykh throwing the shot, racers on the track, gymnast Andrianov on the horizontal bar, Trofimenko clearing the heights (pole vault), gymnast E. Mukhina deep in thought during training.