Fizkultura i sport is a Russia

Russia

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n publisher of sports books and magazines. It was established in 1923 in the USSR

Soviet Union

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. Its logo depicts the famous sculpture Discobolus

Discobolus

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by Myron

Myron

Myron of Eleutherae working circa 480-440 BC, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher....

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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 Council of Ministers of the USSR. It was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor

Order of the Badge of Honor

The Order of the Badge of Honour was a civilian award of the Soviet Union.It was instituted on 25 November 1935 and conferred on citizens of the USSR for outstanding achievements in production, scientific research and social, cultural and other forms of social activity, for promotion of economic,...

 in 1973. In 1975, 113 books were published with the total circulation of 6.2 million. By 1991 amount 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 is 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

Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR

Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR , abbreviated as GTO was the All-Union physical culture training programme, introduced in the USSR on March 11, 1931 on the initiative by VLKSM. It was a complement to the Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR...

 tests), books on tourism

Tourism

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, fishing

Fishing

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, hunting

Hunting

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, chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

. 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 (such as Olympic Games

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

, World Championships, European Championships) and national competitions (Spartakiad

Spartakiad

Spartakiad initially was the name of an international sports event that the Soviet Union attempted to use to both oppose and supplement the Olympics...

s, USSR Championships, etc.), held that year, for all sports, cultivated in the USSR. A lot of books were published on the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 Summer Olympics

The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...

, Friendship Games

Friendship Games

The Friendship Games or Friendship-84 was an international multi-sport event held between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other socialist states which boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles....

, Goodwill Games

Goodwill Games

The Goodwill Games was an international sports competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s...

 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

Anthology

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

 published:

• science fiction
  Science fiction
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   anthology "Wizards on the Stadium" . I maghi dello stadio by Gianni Rodari
  Gianni Rodari
  Gianni Rodari was an Italian writer and journalist, most famous for his books for children. He won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1970 and is considered by many to be Italy's most important twentieth-century children's author...
  
  , Sunjammer
  Sunjammer
  "Sunjammer" is a science fiction short story by English author Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in 1963. It has also been published under the title "The Wind from the Sun" and has been included into Clarke's 1972 collection of short stories with this title.-Plot summary:John...
  
  and The Cruel Sky by Arthur Clarke, The Gods Themselves
  The Gods Themselves
  The Gods Themselves is a 1972 science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973....
  
  by Isaac Asimov
  Isaac Asimov
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  , Przekładaniec by Stanislaw Lem
  Stanislaw Lem
  Stanisław Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy and satire. He was named a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris, which has...
  
  , Steel by Richard Matheson
  Richard Matheson
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  , etc.
• poetry anthology "Olympic Flame. Sports in Works by Poets of the World" . Poems by Ancient Greek
  Ancient Greece
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   poets, by contemporary poets from different countries, etc.
• anthology "Whispers in Bedlam" . The Anthem Sprinters by Ray Bradbury
  Ray Bradbury
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  , Home is the Hunter by Henry Kuttner
  Henry Kuttner
  Henry Kuttner was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.-Early life:Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915...
  
  , etc.
• humorous stories anthology "About Sports with a Smile" . Taming the Bicycle by Mark Twain
  Mark Twain
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  , etc.
• science fiction anthology "Horsehead" Rally . The Menace from Earth
  The Menace From Earth
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  by Robert A. Heinlein
  Robert A. Heinlein
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  , etc.

Book series

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

Shavarsh Karapetyan

Shavarsh Vladimirovich Karapetyan is a retired Soviet Armenian finswimmer, 13-times European Champion and seven-times USSR Champion, who saved 20 lives when a trolleybus fell into the Yerevan reservoir....

, Irina Rodnina

Irina Rodnina

Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina is one of the most successful figure skaters ever and the only pair skater to win 10 successive World Championships and three successive Olympic gold medals . She initially competed with Alexei Ulanov and later teamed up with Alexander Zaitsev...

 and Aleksandr Zaytsev, Alevtina Kolchina

Alevtina Kolchina

Alevtina Pavlovna Kolchina was a Soviet cross country skier who competed during the 1950s and 1960s for Burevestnik and later for Dynamo sports societies. She competed in four Winter Olympics, earning a total of five medals. Kolchina also competed several times at the Holmenkollen ski festival,...

 and Pavel Kolchin

Pavel Kolchin

Pavel Konstantinovich Kolchin was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed during the 1950s and 1960s, training at Dynamo in Moscow. He was born in Yaroslavl....

, Vladislav Tretiak

Vladislav Tretiak

Vladislav Aleksandrovich Tretiak, MSM is a former goaltender for the Soviet Union's national ice hockey team. Considered to be one of the greatest goaltenders in the history of the sport, he was voted one of six players to the International Ice Hockey Federation's Centennial All-Star Team in a...

, Vsevolod Bobrov

Vsevolod Bobrov

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov was a Soviet athlete, who excelled in both football , bandy, and ice hockey. He is considered one of the best Russians ever in all of those sports.- Biography :...

, Modestas Paulauskas

Modestas Paulauskas

Modestas Paulauskas is a retired Lithuanian basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team in the 1972 Olympic basketball tournament. He also won a bronze medal with the team at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Paulauskas trained at VSS Žalgiris in Kaunas. He is known as one of the best...

, Mikhail Yakushin

Mikhail Yakushin

Mikhail Iosifovich Yakushin was a Russian football player and manager....

 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 specifical feature was the motto of the series in Russian

Russian language

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, 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

English language

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 would be:

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		ru	425,000 (1977)	monthly
Олимпийская панорама Olympic Panorama	1976		de en es fr ru		quarterly
Теория и практика физической культуры The Theory and Practice of Physical Culture	1925		ru	20,000 (1975)	monthly
Спортивные игры Sporting Games	1955		ru	150,000 (1988)	monthly
Лёгкая атлетика Athletics	1955		ru	100,000 (1973)	monthly
Шахматы в СССР Chess in the USSR	1921		ru	55,000 (1986)	monthly
Шахматный бюллетень Chess Bulletin Shakhmatny Bulletin Shakhmatny Bulletin was a Russian chess magazine. It was published monthly from 1955–1990 and published about 2,500 complete games per year. Yuri Averbakh was an editor. The circulation was 20,000. Bobby Fischer called Shakhmatny Bulletin "the best chess magazine in the world."...	1955		ru	28,300 (1989)	monthly