The emblem of the VSS Lokomotiv

Lokomotiv (Russian: Локомотив; English:Locomotive) the All-Union Voluntary Sports Society of rail transport workers' Trade Unions, one of the first sports societies of workers of the USSR. Established in 1936, it united workers of rail transport, transport construction and metro. However, Lokomotiv's origins date back to 1923, when October Revolution Club was created, uniting football players of Moscow railways.

In 1972 the society had some 7,000 physical culture collectives (more than 1.3 million athletes) and cultivated more than 40 sports. In January 1973 VSS Lokomotiv possessed 247 stadiums, some 500 sports halls, 260 skiing camps, 127 shooting ranges, 36 swimming pools, some 6,000 sports grounds and football grounds

Since 1992, i.e. after the break-up of the USSR, Lokomotiv became an association of Trade Unions' voluntary sports societies of rail transport workers of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

[edit] Sport clubs of the Lokomotiv society

• FC Lokomotiv Moscow
• RC Lokomotiv Moscow
• FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod
• Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
• FC Lokomotyv Kyiv
• FC Lokomotyv Kharkiv
• FC Lokomotivi Tbilisi

[edit] Notable members

• Vera Krepkina (athletics)
• Nikolay Sokolov (athletics)
• Boris Spassky (chess)
• Radia Yeroshina (cross-country skiing)
• Viatcheslav Ekimov (cycling)
• Ludmila Belousova (figure skating)
• Oleg Protopopov (figure skating)
• Lidia Skoblikova (speed skating)
• Vladimir Bure (swimming)
• Yurik Vardanian (weightlifting)

[edit] References

• (in Russian) Great Soviet Encyclopedia. (3rd ed. ed.). Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya. 1973. vol. 14, p. 620. 

[edit] External links

• (Russian) Sport Flags of the USSR