Fizkultura i sport
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Fizkultura i sport (
Description
"Fizkultura i sport" was the main (though, not exclusive) sports publisher of the USSR. The publisher was a structural part of the State Committee for Publishing Houses, Printing Plants, and the Book Trade by the
Books
"Fizkultura i sport" published books and booklets, popularizing sports, textbooks, methodical yearbooks on many sports disciplines, popular and methodic literature (manuals for physical training on one's own, manuals on the preparation to pass GTO tests), books on tourism, fishing, hunting, chess. Since 1972 "Fizkultura i sport" published the yearbook "Panorama of the Sports Year" (Russian: Панорама спортивного года), that apart from articles on famous athletes and sports life of the country, contained results from all major international competitions (such as Olympic Games, World Championships, European Championships) and national competitions (Spartakiads, USSR Championships, etc.), held that year, for all sports, cultivated in the USSR. A lot of books were published on the 1980 Summer Olympics, Friendship Games, Goodwill Games and other major international events.
Literary publications were also one of the main scopes of the publisher. "Relay" (Russian: Эстафета) sports story collection was published yearly in 1980—1989. There were sports-related anthologies published:
- Stanislaw Lem, Steel by Richard Matheson, etc.
- poetry anthology "Olympic Flame. Sports in Works by Poets of the World" (Russian: Олимпийский огонь. Спорт в творчестве поэтов мира, 1980). Poems by Ancient Greek poets, by contemporary poets from different countries, etc.
- anthology "Whispers in Bedlam" (Russian: Шепот в Бедламе, 1982). The Anthem Sprinters by Ray Bradbury, Home is the Hunter by Henry Kuttner, etc.
- humorous stories anthology "About Sports with a Smile" (Russian: С улыбкой о спорте, 1983). Taming the Bicycle by Mark Twain, etc.
- science fiction anthology "Horsehead" Rally (Russian: Ралли «Конская голова», 1990). The Menace from Earth by Robert A. Heinlein, etc.
Book series
There were several series of biographical books on famous Soviet athletes and sportspeople, including "Heroes of the Olympic Games" (
When silver trumpets announce the victory, they invite on the pedestal not just a winner, they sing the praises of SPORTS: of mind and of strength, of courage and of will, of faithfulness, of bravery and of honour; they sing the praises of PEOPLE, who gave up their hearts to sports, who call upon the life exploit by their example!
Magazines
Apart from books "Fizkultura i sport" published several magazines:
Title | Published since |
ISSN | Languages | Circulation USSR |
Type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Физкультура и спорт Physical Culture and Sport |
1922 | 0130-5670 | ru | 425,000 (1977) | monthly |
Олимпийская панорама Olympic Panorama |
1976 | 0204-2177 | de en es fr ru | quarterly | |
Теория и практика физической культуры The Theory and Practice of Physical Culture |
1925 | 0040-3601 | ru | 20,000 (1975) | monthly |
Спортивные игры Sporting Games |
1955 | 0131-9604 | ru | 150,000 (1988) | monthly |
Лёгкая атлетика Athletics |
1955 | 0024-4155 | ru | 100,000 (1973) | monthly |
Шахматы в СССР Chess in the USSR |
1921 | 0132-0947 | ru | 55,000 (1986) | monthly |
Шахматный бюллетень Chess Bulletin |
1955 | 0037-3230 | ru | 28,300 (1989) | monthly |
References and footnotes
- ^ Юдин, А.В. Современное российское учебно-педагогическое книгоиздание [The Modern Russian Educational and Pedagogical Book Publishing] (in Russian). Institute of Open Education MSUPA. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ^ Якушин, Михаил (1988). Вечная тайна футбола [Everlasting Football's Mystery] (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 2.
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- "Физкультура и спорт". Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). Moscow: Great Russian Encyclopedia. 2001.
- Панорама спортивного года, 1984 [Panorama of the 1984 Sports Year] (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1985.