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In USSR the Voluntary Sport Societies usually were the societies of groups of people of same profession. For example,
Victor Lomantsov, 28 Jan 2001
Sport system in USSR was very original. There were several big “voluntary
sport societies”:
Spartak,
Dynamo,
Vodnik,
Lokomotive,
Zenit.
Each society had clubs in many towns. The clubs may have own names but
usually they have analogous names. For example, four Dynamo teams were in
football-championships of USSR: Dynamo Moskva, Dinamo
Kiev, Dinamo Tbilisi, Dynamo Minsk. Each society had a flag. All clubs
inside the society usually used analogous flags.
Victor Lomantsov, 23 Dec 2000
image by Victor Lomantsov, 23 Dec 2000
Flag of All-union Voluntary Sport Society “Dynamo” (USSR-times)
was white with blue upper case Russian style script Cyrillic letter "D" in the
centre, blue border at three sides and Lenin Order in the corner. Letter "D"
was a logotype of the society. All Dynamos now use similar emblems
(Dynamo Kyiv and
Dynamo Moscow in football,
Dynamo Moscow in hockey)
Victor Lomantsov, 07 Jan 2001
The society Dynamo united the employees of
militia,
inner forces, KGB
and other “forces ministries”.
Victor Lomantsov, 28 Feb 2001
image by Victor Lomantsov, 23 Dec 2000
The official flag of Voluntary Sport Society Spartak was red with white
bend and Order of Lenin in canton.
Victor Lomantsov, 23 Dec 2000
This one looks a bit like a diving
squadron
honoured with a medal of the order of Lenin…
Željko Heimer, 25 Dec 2000
Spartak was the society of trade-unions, it united the workers, the
teachers and many other groups.
Victor Lomantsov, 28 Feb 2001
image by Victor Lomantsov, 21 Apr 2003
Central Sport Club of the Army (CSKA —
Центральний
Спортивний
Клуб Армии |
Centralniĭ Sportivniĭ Klub Armii) had very famous hockey
team, basketball, football and others.
The flag of CSCA was red with blue triangle near the hoist. Red star
outlined yellow in the centre of triangle, Cyrillic letters CSKA in the
star.
Victor Lomantsov, 12 Jan 2001
I believe this is the team known in North American hockey as the
“Red Army team”.
Steve Kramer, 15 Jan 2001
image by Victor Lomantsov, 12 Jan 2001
All-Union Voluntary Sport Society “Lokomotiv” had
red flag with the emblem in the corner. Lokomotiv was the sport society
of workers of railroads.
Victor Lomantsov, 12 Jan 2001 and 28 Jan 2001
The emblem shows a green locomotive (green is indeed the typical color for
former soviet locomotives) and an upper case cursive sans-serif Cyrillic letter
"L" ("Л"), the initial of the club’s nickname, in purple.
António Martins, 05 Sep 2003
image by Victor Lomantsov, 28 Jan 2001
Now the image of flag of Voluntary Students’ Sport Society
“Burevestnik” (Stormy petrel). Light-blue field with blue border and white
flying stormy petrel in the centre, waves at the bottom. Burevestnik was the
sport society of students of high schools.
Victor Lomantsov, 28 Jan 2001
image by Victor Lomantsov, 15 Jan 2001
Flag of All-Union Voluntary Sport Society “Vodnik”:
white with the logo and three blue “waves”. Vodnik was
the sport society for the workers of water-ministries
(fishery, merchant
fleet, port workers). It was not very famous.
Victor Lomantsov, 15 Jan 2001 and 28 Jan 2001
The logo on this flag is a tilted dark blue square with a golden helm
wheel framing a seascape with a waving red flag behind it; bellow the square,
at both sides, the lettering "ВОД
НИК" in Cyrillic black sans-serif capitals.
António Martins, 05 Sep 2003
image by Victor Lomantsov, 15 Jan 2001
A red flag with a badge in the upper hoist; the badge is light blue,
surrounded by a green wreath at the sides and a red ribbon at the top,
with crossed rifles, and anchor and a plane (all yellow / golden) and a
five pointed red star fimbriated yellow and with a yellow hammer and sickle
on it; double fimbriated white stripe at the bottom.
António Martins, 09 Sep 1999 and 05 Sep 2003
It is the flag of DOSAAF, a voluntary society of assistance to
army, aviation and
navy; it was not army unit. It was a patriotic
society in USSR which developed military and semi-military sporting games
— autosport, motorcycles sports, small scale model ship and plane
competitions, parachute sports, avian sports, shooting and others. Ratio
is 2:3, unlike most soviet flag (confirmed with Statutes of DOSAAF 1962).
Widths of the stripes are approximate: (62+5+6+10+6+5+14):162.
Victor Lomantsov,
14 Dec 2001, 17 Jan 2001, 13 Mar 2001 and 15 Mar 2001
A photo in the back cover of an issue of Modelist Konstruktor |
Моделист
Конструктор
magazine of the 1980’ies shows the winners of the Soviet Championship of
Small Scale Model Sports
(Ĉempionat SSSR po Sudmodelhnomu Sportu |
Чемпионат
СССР по
Судмодельному
Спорту),
held in Kaunas 1985.08: Three poles behind the podium; at the viewer’s
right hand, the Air Force Ensign; in the center,
the Soviet Naval Jack; and at the viewer’s
right hand the DOSAAF flag.
António Martins, 09 Sep 1999
