Sports in the USSR (1920-1934)

Participants in one of the workers' Spartakiads of the 1920s run a relay race.

Passing the baton from one participant to another.

Teenagers line up in a pyramid.

Schoolchildren perform gymnastics exercises and various figures.

High jump competition.

Long jump competition.

Young Pioneers on the city square synchronously perform gymnastics exercises, panorama of the square.

View of Red Square during one of the sports festivals in the early 1930s (top), participants line up on the square in the form of a giant GTO badge.

Panorama of the Moscow Hippodrome during gymnastics exercises by members of sports societies.

Members of sports societies walk along Red Square during a sports festival in the mid-1920s.

View of part of Red Square during the physical education parade of 1936. Participants in the physical education parade walk along Red Square.

Flags being colored over the Dynamo stadium.

View of the stadium during the sports festival, the festival participants line up on the playing field in the form of a five-pointed star.

Members of sports societies walk along the stadium's running tracks.

View of the stadium's playing field with a five-pointed star built by the participants of the sports festival, view of part of the stands (from above).

Participants of the festival at the stadium.

Shooters with rifles at the firing line.

Swimmers before the start.

The faces of the judges, one of the judges is preparing to strike the gong.

View of one of the stands of the open-air swimming pool.

Giving the start signal by striking the gong.

Starts of swimming and running competitions, swimmers on water lanes.

Cyclists on the track.

Participants in the 1933 physical culture parade in Leningrad come out onto Palace Square.

View of a part of Palace Square during the physical culture parade in Leningrad in 1933. Columns of physical culture athletes march along Palace Square.

A column of female athletes marches along Palace Square.

First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Kirov S.M. greets the parade participants from the stands.

Cyclists ride along Palace Square.

Faces of spectators.

Sportswomen perform gymnastics exercises in sync on the square.

The parade participants line up in a five-pointed star in a circle - an image of the GTO badge, Kirov greets the parade participants from the stands.

A model of the GTO badge at the parade.

Participants of the All-Union Spartakiad of 1928 marching along Red Square, panorama of the guest stands.

A military brass band is playing.

A column of female athletes from the Moscow and Moscow province teams is marching along Red Square.

Representatives of sports clubs are marching.

Tennis players are walking with rackets in their hands.

View of part of Red Square during the physical culture parade.

A military brass band is playing.

A column of athletes with a portrait of Stalin is marching along Red Square during the physical culture parade of 1936. The face of a girl.

Flags are flying over the columns of parade participants passing by the Bolshoi Theater.

A column of female athletes with models of kayaks on them is marching along Red Square.

Faces and legs of the marching participants of the holiday.

People from the balcony of a house on Gorky Street are watching the passing columns of participants in the physical culture parade.

A column of parade participants with a model of a fruit dish.

View of Red Square during the physical culture parade participants changing formations from one figure to another (top).

Parade participants perform synchronized movements on Red Square, forming various figures.

View of part of Gorky Street during the physical culture parade (top).

Views of Red Square during the physical culture parade and parade participants changing formations (top).

Parade participants performing synchronized movements, a girl's face.

Parade participants carry banners in their hands.

Female athletes march along Red Square in columns.

Parade participants line up in a five-pointed star.

Parade participants perform synchronized movements and jump ropes.

A column of athletes with a portrait of Stalin.

Moscow residents greet car rally participants before entering Red Square in the 1920s.

Participants in one of the motorcycle rallies on the distance.

Participants in a camel run in the steppe.

Skiers carrying torches on the ends of their poles during a night ski race.

Local residents greet participants of a horse race in Kuban.

Participants in a canoe race respond to greetings from those meeting them.

A boy's face.

Skiers setting off on a race.

Spectators in the stadium stands during the 1928 All-Union Spartakiad.

Fans watch the running competitions.

Fans' faces.

Measuring the height of the jump bar.

High jump competition.

Fans in the stands.

View of a section of the stadium's running track during the running competitions (from above).

The finish line of the women's race.

The face of the race winner.

Pole vault competition.

One of the competitors clears the height.