Sovetsky Sport
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 Soviet Sports nameplate on the May 19, 1988 issue | |
| Publisher | Komsomolskaya Pravda |
|---|---|
| Editor-in-chief | Yevgeny Slyusarenko (from Marth 2023) |
| Founded | 20 July 1924 |
| Language | Russian |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Website | SovSport.Ru |
Sovetsky Sport (Russian: Советский спорт; English: Soviet Sports) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) national daily sports newspaper. Until 19 March 1946 the newspaper was called Red Sports (Russian: Красный спорт), it was not printed between 1928 and 1932.
History
Founded on July 20, 1924, in
Soviet Sports provided daily coverage of major competitions in the USSR and abroad, of activities within national and international sports federations, published interviews with athletes, coaches and other sportspeople, and propagated a healthy lifestyle. It also organized traditional All-Union and international
After the breakup of the USSR, newspaper's circulation declined to 122,900 (as of 2006[update]). One of the main reasons for this was the
Notable journalists
- Yuri Vanyat (1913–1992)
- Aron Itin (1st Editor of Red Sports; shot in 1938)
- Semyon Belits-Geiman (born 1945)
- Vladimir Kuchmiy (1948–2009)
- Elena Vaytsekhovskaya (born 1958)
- Vitaly Slavin (born 1960)
- Vasily Utkin (born 1974)
- Alexey Andronov (born 1975)
- Yevgeny Slyusarenko
- Sofya Tartakova (born 1989)
See also
References
External links
- "Covering All the Games". Russia Profile. Archived from the original on May 3, 2006. Retrieved May 28, 2006.
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Vol. 24 (part I) (in Russian) (3rd ed.). Moscow: Советская Энциклопедия. 1976. p. 26.
- (in Russian) Official website