MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (), is a Russian

sports club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

based in Moscow. Founded by

Felix Dzerzhinsky Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (; ; – 20 July 1926), nicknamed Iron Felix (), was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka a ...

on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first institution created from the All-Union

Dynamo Sports Club "Dynamo", also Dinamo (; ; ; ka, დინამო, tr), is a sports and physical training, fitness society created in 1923 in the Soviet Union. The society was an association of multi-sport clubs whose members were drawn from the NKVD and, af ...

. Dynamo Moscow developed numerous athletes. Among them, multiple Olympic medalists like fencer

Galina Gorokhova Galina Yevgenyevna Gorokhova (; born 31 August 1938) is a Russian and former Soviet Union, Soviet retired fencer and five-time Olympic medalist, as well as a nine-time world gold medalist. She is also the coach of the Russian Olympic fencing team. ...

and gymnast

Mikhail Voronin Mikhail Yakovlevich Voronin (; 26 March 1945 – 22 May 2004) was a Soviet and Russian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won seven medals, including two gold, at the 1968 Summer Olympics, as well as ...

Ballon d'Or The Ballon d'Or (; ) is an annual association football, football award presented by French magazine ''France Football'' since 1956 Ballon d'Or, 1956 to honour the player deemed to have performed the best over the previous season. Conceived ...

winner the "Black Spider"

Lev Yashin Lev Ivanovich Yashin (; 22 October 1929 – 20 March 1990) was a Soviet professional footballer considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the sport. He was the first and only goalkeeper to win a Ballon d'Or, a feat whi ...

, three-time ice hockey Olympic gold medalist Vitaly Davydov, and one of the most decorated in rhythmic gymnastic,

Alina Kabaeva Alina Maratovna Kabaeva (or Kabayeva; born 12 May 1983) is a Russian politician, media manager, and retired individual rhythmic gymnast, who has been designated Honoured Master of Sports by the Russian government. Kabaeva is one of the most d ...

. Since December 2019, the Dynamo Society is headed by the FSB two-star general Anatoly Gulevsky.

Departments

Notable athletes gallery

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Alexander Ovechkin Alexander Mikhailovich Ovechkin (, ; born 17September 1985) is a Russian professional ice hockey Winger (ice hockey), left winger and Captain (ice hockey), captain of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "the ...

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File:Natalja Goncarova 1.jpg, Nataliya Goncharova

References

{{Sports Societies of the Soviet Union * Sports clubs and teams established in 1923 Multi-sport clubs in Russia Sports clubs and teams in Moscow Gymnastics clubs in Russia