"Dynamo", also Dinamo (; ; ; ka, დინამო, tr), is a

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and fitness society created in 1923 in the

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. The society was an association of multi-sport clubs whose members were drawn from the

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and, after

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, the MVD and the

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. With the Soviet occupation of

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after World War II, similar Dynamo societies were established throughout the

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, such as

SV Dynamo The Sportvereinigung Dynamo () (''Dynamo Sports Association'') was the Sports associations (East Germany), sport association of the security agencies (Volkspolizei, Stasi, Ministry for State Security, fire department and customs) of former East ...

(East Germany).

Overview

Name

The name given to the society was supposed to mean "Power in Motion", taken from the

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: δύναμις; ''dynamis'' -power, and

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: ''motio'', -motion. Not coincidentally, this term was first coined earlier by a Belgian inventor

Zénobe Gramme Zénobe Théophile Gramme (; 4 April 1826 – 20 January 1901) was a Belgian electrical engineer. He was born at Jehay-Bodegnée on 4 April 1826, the sixth child of Mathieu-Joseph Gramme, and died at Bois-Colombes on 20 January 1901. He invent ...

for the

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. Dynamo, together with Armed Forces sports societies, made up the universal system of physical education and sports of the USSR. Forty-five sports disciplines were sanctioned by the society in 1971. It had some 6,000 sports facilities and 43 Children and Youth Sport Schools.

History

The "Dinamo" society was officially created on 18 April 1923, on Felix Dzerzhinsky's initiative and under the sponsorship of the

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(GPU), the Soviet

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, the predecessor of other later created Soviet security structures such as

and MVD. For the rest of the society's history in the Soviet period, it maintained some connection with the state security apparatus. The forerunner of Dynamo was the

Physical Culture society that existed since 1917. On 12 August 1923 in Moscow at Orlovo-Davydovsky pereulok (lane) was opened the first Dynamo stadium named after Dzerzhinsky. On 23 August 1923 the presidium of the Moscow Proletarian Sports Society Dynamo reviewed a petition of the Penza Governorate GPU Political Department about establishing of the local Proletarian Sports Society Dynamo. This was the first practical step in development of departmental sports society on nationwide scale. On 1 – 16 September 1923 the Moscow Proletarian Sports Society Dynamo participated in the First All-Union Festival of Physical Culture in Moscow. On 11 September 1923 the Moscow Proletarian Sports Society Dynamo dispatched two of its members to Petrograd to organize local Dynamo society in the city. On 2 October 1923 the All-Union Council of Physical Culture considering specifics of the GPU activities admitted as practical the existence of the GPU sports organization "Dynamo". On 16 October 1923 the All-Union Council of Physical Culture adopted a resolution "About Central Council of the PSS Dynamo". On 11 December 1923 Dynamo opened its own cinema theater at Rusakovskaya ulica in Moscow. On 2 January 1924 there was opened the first Dynamo specialized store at Kuznetsky bridge in Moscow. On 1 August 1924

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was appointed one of the members of the All-Union Council of Physical Culture from

OGPU The Joint State Political Directorate ( rus, Объединённое государственное политическое управление, p=ɐbjɪdʲɪˈnʲɵn(ː)əjə ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əjə pəlʲɪˈtʲitɕɪskəjə ʊprɐˈv ...

. On 1 October 1924 OGPU issued its order "On establishment of the Central Council of proletarian sports societies (PSS) Dynamo and about organization of local PSS Dynamo". The Central Council was officially founded on 8 October, but its functions continued to be performed by council of the Moscow PSS Dynamo until April 1926. On 22 November 1927 the society became a sponsor of Fizkultura i sport publisher and mandated its members to subscribe to the publisher's magazine. On 8 August 1929 took place a final match of the First All-Union football championship of Dynamo society, which involved over 40 teams. During the game Dynamo Moscow beat Dynamo Ukraine becoming the first champions. In 1932 there existed 309 regional PSS and 2249 district-level cells of Dynamo. On 22 November 1935 Central Council of the Dynamo sports society dispatched a brigade of Dynamo for three months to help organize sports activities at the mine "Central coal mine – Irmino" on help call of

Alexey Stakhanov Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov ( rus, Алексе́й Григо́рьевич Стаха́нов, p=stɐˈxanəf, ''Alekséy Grigór'yevich Stakhánov''; 3 January 1906 – 5 November 1977) was a Soviet miner, Hero of Socialist Labour (1970), ...

. On 26 November 1935 Central Council of Dynamo congratulated "Dynamo–Ukraine" with 5th anniversary in organization of the first in the Soviet Union sports aviation by group of enthusiasts from

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. Experience of the Ukrainian aviation section was used to unfold activities in training of pilots in the Dynamo's organization system as well as the Osoaviakhim. At the end of 1935 Central Council of Komsomol and Presidium of the All-Union Council of Physical Culture adopted a decision to pay leading sports people for their physical culture activities. On 14 December 1936 Central Council of Dynamo paid all its players and coach of the football team 500 rubles at the end of season. In 1937 the sports club was honored with the Soviet

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. On 16 November 1938 chairman of the All-Union Committee of Physical Culture and Sports recognized Dynamo as a founding father of Sambo martial art. In 1939 all regional Proletarian Sports Society were merged into one All-Union fitness and sports society "Dynamo". On 31 July 1940 the Government Commission honored the Dynamo sports society with Red Banner for performance in the All-Union Physical Culture parade at the Moscow's Red Square. On 23 July 1941, the Central Council of the Dynamo sports society was evacuated to

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due to advancement of Nazi Germany to Moscow. On 31 August 1954 the central council and all leadership posts of the sports society became fully elected rather than being appointed as before. The name of the society also became well-known internationally through many clubs in various sports, initially created under the auspices of the Soviet Dynamo society (a partial list of sports includes

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basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

, and

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

) or just bore the name "Dynamo", with many such clubs attaining much international acclaim, such as in football: KF Dinamo Tirana, Dinamo Baku,

FC Dinamo București FC Dinamo București, commonly known as Dinamo București () or simply Dinamo, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in Bucharest that competes in the Liga I. Founded in 1948 as the team of the Ministry of Inter ...

, Dinamo Sofia,

FC Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet ...

FC Dynamo Moscow FC Dynamo Moscow (''FC Dynamo Moskva'', , ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. Dynamo returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2017–18 season after one season in the second-tier Russian Footba ...

FC Dinamo Tbilisi FC Dinamo Tbilisi ( ka, დინამო თბილისი, ) is a Georgian professional football club based in Tbilisi that competes in the Erovnuli Liga, the top flight of Georgian football. Dinamo Tbilisi was one of the most prom ...

FC Dinamo Minsk FC Dinamo Minsk or FK Dynama Minsk (; ) is a Belarusian professional Association football, football club based in the capital city of Minsk. It was founded in 1927 as part of the Soviet Dynamo Sports Club, Dinamo Sports Society, and was the o ...

, FC Dinamo Brest, JK Dünamo Tallinn,

NK Dinamo Zagreb Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb (), commonly referred to as simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Cr ...

(

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), Sportvereinigung Dynamo (

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: including BFC Dynamo, SG Dynamo Dresden and

SC Dynamo Berlin The Sports Club Dynamo Berlin was an East German sports club that existed from 1954 to 1991. It was the largest sports club of SV Dynamo, the sports association of the security agencies. The club was reformed after German reunification and succe ...

), in ice hockey:

HC Dynamo Moscow HC Dynamo Moscow () is a professional ice hockey club based in Moscow, Russia. It is a member of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Dynamo has won the Gagarin Cup twice, in 2011–12 KHL season, 2011–12 and 2012–13 ...

Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society ...

(now Sokil Kyiv), HC Dinamo Minsk, and

Dinamo Riga Dinamo Riga () is a professional ice hockey team based in Riga, Latvia. It most recently was a member of the Latvian Hockey Higher League. The club is affiliated with HK Zemgale/LBTU. The club was re-founded on 7 April 2008 as a successor of a D ...

. Similarly-named clubs were created in many countries of the

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. Many clubs, now transformed into the regular private clubs of their respective national leagues, still function under their original ''Dinamo'' or ''Dynamo'' name but their history is the only connection with the old Dynamo society. On 19 April 2023, in honour of the centennial anniversary, the Dynamo Society was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky and a modern museum of the All-Russian Physical Culture and Sports Society was opened, combining multimedia technologies and sports relics.

Structure

Currently, Dynamo is an All-Russian fitness-sports society based in Moscow. The society also has several affiliations abroad in

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and

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There is the International coordination council of Dynamo's organizations which includes: * Sports Association "Interclub" of Ministry of Interior (Albania) * Sports Public Organization "Dynamo" (Armenia) * Republican State-Public Union "Belarusian Fitness-Sports Society Dynamo" * Fitness-Sports Club "Dynamo" (Georgia) * Sports Organization "

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" of Ministry of Interior (Italy) * Public Union "Fitness-Sports Society Dynamo" (Kazakhstan) * Public Union "Kyrgyz Fitness-Sports Society Dynamo" * Sports Society "Dynamo" (Latvia) * Central Sports Club "Dynamo" of Ministry of Interior (Moldova) * Sports Organization "Khuch" * Public-State Union "All-Russian Fitness-Sports Society Dynamo" * Sports Society "Dynamo" (Romania) * Sports Society "Dynamo" of Ministry of Interior (Tajikistan) * Sports Club "Galkan" of Ministry of Interior (Turkmenistan) * Fitness-Sports Society "

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" (Ukraine) Several organizations are observers: * Fitness-Sports Charter "Dynamo" (Georgia) * Sports Society of Ministry of Interior (Azerbaijan) * Fitness-Sports Society "Dynamo" (Uzbekistan)

Chairs of the Central Council

Chairs of the Society

* 1923 Felix Dzerzhinsky (honorary) * 1923 – 1923 Józef Unszlicht * 1923 – 1929

* 1929 – 1931 Stanislav Messing * 1931 – 1933 Vsevolod Balitsky * 1933 – 1936 Georgy Prokofyev * 1936 – 1938 Mikhail Frinovsky

Chairs of the Central Council

* 1939 – 1941 Ivan Maslennikov * 1941 – 1943

Viktor Abakumov Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov (; 24 April 1908 – 19 December 1954) was a high-level Soviet security official who from 1943 to 1946 was the head of SMERSH in the USSR People's Commissariat of Defense, and from 1946 to 1951 of the Minister of St ...

(interim) * 1943 – 1946 Boris Obruchnikov * 1946 – 1948 Arkadiy Apollonov * 1950 – 1951 Nikolay Selivanovsky * 1951 – 1951 Sergei Goglidze * 1951 – 1953 Alexey Yepishev * 1953 – 1953 Ivan Maslennikov * 1953 – 1960 Semyon Perevyortkin * 1973 – 1986 Pyotr Bogdanov

Notable members

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* Ludmilla Tourischeva (

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) * Natalia Shaposhnikova (artistic gymnastics) * Viktor Saneyev ( athletics) * Tatiana Ovechkina (

) * Aleksandr Tikhonov (

biathlon The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not ti ...

) * Valeri Popenchenko (

boxing Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punch ...

) * Uladzimir Parfianovich (

canoeing Canoeing is an activity which involves paddling a canoe with a single-bladed paddle. In some parts of Europe, canoeing refers to both canoeing and kayaking, with a canoe being called an 'open canoe' or Canadian. A few of the recreational ...

) * David Bronstein (

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

) * Vyacheslav Vedenin (

cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing whereby skiers traverse snow-covered terrain without use of ski lifts or other assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreational activity; however, some still use it as a m ...

) * Gintautas Umaras (

cycling Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...

) * Vadym Gutzeit (

fencing Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting. It consists of three primary disciplines: Foil (fencing), foil, épée, and Sabre (fencing), sabre (also spelled ''saber''), each with its own blade and set of rules. Most competitive fe ...

) * Alexandr Romankov (fencing) * Iosif Vitebskiy (born 1938), epee fencer, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic medalist and world champion and fencing coach * Aleksandr Gorshkov (

figure skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, with its introduction occurring at the Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympi ...

) * Lev Yashin (

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

) * Vyacheslav Atavin (

) * Aleksandr Maltsev (

) * Viktor Kosichkin (

speed skating Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marathon speed skat ...

) * Igor Polyansky (

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

) * Alex Metreveli (

tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

) * Yury Zakharevich (

weightlifting Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

) *

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References

External links

Official website
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Overview

Name

History

Structure

Chairs of the Central Council

Chairs of the Society

Chairs of the Central Council

Notable members

See also

References

External links