Dynamo Sports Club

Dynamo or Dinamo (Russian: Динамо, romanized: Dinamo; Ukrainian: Динамо, romanized: Dynamo; Belarusian: Дынама, romanized: Dynama; Georgian: დინამო, romanized:dinamo) is a public sports and fitness society with its headquarters in Moscow, Russia. It was originally created in 1923 in the Soviet Union as an all-Soviet sports organization, with branches established within each union republic. The society functioned as an association of multi-sport clubs in various cities, with athletes historically drawn from the NKVD and, after World War II, from the MVD and the KGB.

With the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe after World War II, similar Dynamo societies were established throughout the Eastern Bloc, such as SV Dynamo in East Germany. In 1960, the All-Russian sports and fitness society Dynamo was established and operated on the territory of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Dynamo central office merged into the All-Russian sports and fitness society Dynamo, while the Dynamo offices of other union republics, which became independent nations, began functioning as separate foreign organizations.

Today, Dynamo operates as a multi-sport association and fitness society headquartered in Moscow, Russia, maintaining its historical network of sports clubs across Russia and cooperating with former Dynamo organizations in other post-Soviet states and Eastern European countries.