Fizkultura i sport


Fizkultura i sport is a Russian publisher of sports books and magazines. It was established in 1923 in the USSR. Its logo depicts the famous sculpture Discobolus by Myron.

Description

"Fizkultura i sport" was the main 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 Council of Ministers of the USSR. It was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1973. In 1975, 113 books were published with the total circulation of 6.2 million. By 1991 the number of books, published per year, reached 150. After the breakup of the USSR, the amount of publications by the publisher greatly declined. But although today it publishes some 20 books a year, 5 to 10 thousand copies each, there were some signs of the revival in the latest years. Since 1995 the publisher is not under control of the government, it's the joint-stock company.

Books

"Fizkultura i sport" published books and booklets, popularizing sports, textbooks, methodical yearbooks on many sports disciplines, popular and methodic literature, books on tourism, fishing, hunting, chess. Since 1972 "Fizkultura i sport" published the yearbook "Panorama of the Sports Year", that apart from articles on famous athletes and sports life of the country, contained results from all major international competitions and national competitions, 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" sports story collection was published yearly in 1980—1989. There were sports-related anthologies published:
There were several series of biographical books on famous Soviet athletes and sportspeople, including "Heroes of the Olympic Games", "World Sport Stars", "Hearts, Given Up to Sports". For example, in the latter series, books about Shavarsh Karapetyan, Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaytsev, Alevtina Kolchina and Pavel Kolchin, Vladislav Tretiak, Vsevolod Bobrov, Modestas Paulauskas, Mikhail Yakushin and other notable Soviet athletes were published. Many Soviet book series had logos, the one of "Hearts, Given Up to Sports" series was the Olympic Torch. Besides, its special feature was the motto of the series in Russian, that was present inside each book: "Когда серебряные трубы возвещают победу, они зовут на пьедестал не только победителя, они славят СПОРТ: разум и силу, мужество и волю, верность, отвагу и честь; они славят ЛЮДЕЙ, отдавших сердца спорту, зовущих своими делами, своим примером на жизненный подвиг!" A rough translation into English would be:

Magazines

Apart from books "Fizkultura i sport" published several magazines:
TitlePublished
since		ISSNLanguagesCirculation
USSR		Type
Физкультура и спорт
Physical Culture and Sport		1922ru425,000 monthly
Олимпийская панорама
Olympic Panorama		1976de en es fr ruquarterly
Теория и практика физической культуры
The Theory and Practice of Physical Culture		1925ru20,000 monthly
Спортивные игры
Sporting Games		1955ru150,000 monthly
Лёгкая атлетика
Athletics		1955ru100,000 monthly
Шахматы в СССР
Chess in the USSR		1921ru55,000 monthly
Шахматный бюллетень
Chess Bulletin		1955ru28,300 monthly