How it was №1 14.08.1999 (1999)

Video chronicle: The 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm.

Promotion of physical education in the Soviet Union (1930s).

Amateur athletes' running relay races.

Sports parades on Red Square.

Stalin, Mikhail Kalinin, Vyacheslav Molotov on the Mausoleum tribune.

Football on Red Square.

Post-war years: gymnasium.

In 1951, the Soviet Union applied to participate in the 1952 Olympic Games in Finland, for the first time since 1912. Vladimir Semichastny talks about the level of training of Soviet athletes Video chronicle: Football matches in the 1940s on the fields of Moscow stadiums.

They score a goal.

Anatoly Ilyin names the players of the football team, including: Netto, Bobrov, Nikolaev, Nikonorov, etc.

Each of the players had a profession in civilian life and worked in their specialty, for example, Tatushin was a tailor.

Vladimir Semichastny says that professional athletes did not participate in the Olympic Games of those years, and the teams were made up of amateur athletes.

Video chronicle: July 19, 1952, the opening of the Olympics in Helsinki.

Paavo Nurmi lights the Olympic flame.

Nina Romashkova brought the first gold medal to the Soviet team.

Tells how the sporting victory was achieved.

Video chronicle: Nina Romashkova throws the discus at the Olympics.

The winners' podium of Soviet athletes.

Performance of Soviet gymnasts at the XV Olympic Games.

Valentin Muratov performs on the gymnastic rings.

Valentin Muratov recalls the performances of Soviet gymnasts.

Tells about the provocation when the USSR flag was burned in the Olympic camp where Soviet athletes lived.

Soviet athletes refused Olympic nutrition, which caused a lot of talk in the press.

Participants recall how they hid their sports salaries, paid by the state - explain what caused such a decision.

Video chronicle: Accommodation of athletes from the USSR and other countries in the Olympic town in Helsinki.

Anatoly Ilyin recalls the defeat of the football team.

Video chronicle: Fragment of the game of basketball teams of the USSR and Uruguay.

Interview with Yuri Ozerov.

Talks about the complexity of the game and the level of training of athletes.

Video chronicle: Award ceremony of the winners of the XV Olympiad.

Vladimir Semichastny talks about dissatisfaction with the Olympic results of Soviet athletes in the Kremlin and criticism of Beria, after returning to Moscow.

Video chronicle: Olympic symbols, medals, lighting of the Olympic flame at subsequent Olympics.