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CSKA Moscow

Sports club based in Moscow, Russia

Sports club based in Moscow, Russia

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CSKA Moscow () is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet era, it was the central part of the Armed Forces sports society, which in turn was associated with the Soviet Army; because of this, it was popularly referred to in the West as "Red Army" or "the Red Army team". The historical CSKA sport club (a.k.a. "Big CSKA") is still a department of the Russian Defense Ministry.

Following the 2023 publication of the International Olympic Committee's criteria for the reinstatement of Russian athletes (they were suspended in February 2022 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine), athletes affiliated with CSKA Moscow were officially prohibited from attending the Olympic Games until at least 2026.

Composition

The "Big CSKA" had several teams in many sports, but those which are still operating are all now private clubs:

SportTeams
FootballPFC CSKA Moscow formed in 1911.
WFC CSKA Moscow formed in 2016.
Ice hockeyHC CSKA Moscow formed in 1946.
BasketballPBC CSKA Moscow formed in 1923.
WBC CSKA Moscow formed in 1923, disbanded in 2009.
VolleyballVC CSKA Moscow formed in 1946, disbanded in 2009.
WVC CSKA Moscow formed in 1936, disbanded in 2008.
Water PoloCSK VMF Moscow formed in 1924.
FutsalMFK CSKA Moscow formed in 1996.
HandballHBC CSKA Moscow formed in 1973, disbanded in 2001, re-launched in 2020.
HBC CSKA Moscow (women) formed in 2019.
RugbyRC CSKA Moscow formed in 2014.
WRC CSKA Moscow formed in 2014.
BandyCSKA Moscow formed in 1923, disbanded in 1962.
Beach soccerBSC CSKA Moscow formed in 2010.
Sport wrestlingCSKA Wrestling Club formed in 1997.
eSportsPFO CSKA Moscow formed in 2024.

The CSKA has also been home to many figure skaters, including Adelina Sotnikova, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov. Elena Mukhina, the 1978 World Champion artistic gymnast, Aliya Mustafina and Yevgeniya Kanayeva, Olympic gold medalists in gymnastics, Sofya Velikaya, a sabre fencer, Olympic champions Elena Vesnina, and Viktor An.

Brief overview

The club was created as the "Experimentally demonstrative Military Sports field of Vsevobuch" (OPPV) in February 1923 by the Central Administration of Military Training for workers based on the pre-revolutionary "Society of Ski Sports Amateurs" (OLLS). The field was located at the Sokolniki Park in Moscow. On April 29, 1923, the football team of the club has played its first game in the Moscow city championship. In February 1928 the club was included to the newly established the Frunze Central House of Red Army (CDKA) as a department of physical culture and sports. In October 1953 all sports centers of CDKA and Air Force of the Moscow Military District were included in the Central Sports Club of Ministry of Defense (CSK MO), which in April 1960 it was renamed into its more common title - the Central Sports Club of the Armed Forces (CSKA), which the Moscow branch belonged as the flagship and most elite of all the clubs within the Soviet Armed Forces.

The club is active in more than 40 sports, and produced 463 Olympic champions for the Soviet Union and Russia, 11,000 champions in local Soviet and Russian championships, and 2629 golden medalists in European and world championships.

In 1973 the CSKA sports society was awarded the Order of Lenin.

Chiefs and presidents

PeriodChef / President
1923–1924Russian SFSR Rebrik D. M.
1924–1938URS Vernikovsky B. A.
1939–1940URS Sretensky E. S.
1943–1947URS Vasiljev D. M.
1948–1949URS Andreev V. A.
1950–1952URS Halkiopov P. V.
1952–1953URS Somov M. M.
1953–1956URS Sysoev V. D.
1956–1961URS Novgorodov
1962–1969URS Schitov N. P.
1969–1970URS Chanyshev A. H.
1970–1976URS Tabunov I. D.
1976–1982URS Pokusaev I. K.
1983–1987URS Bludov Y. M.
1987–1989URS Zaharov V. A.
1989–1992URS Akentjev A. V.
1992–1994RUS Lagovsky S.M.
1994–1998RUS Baranovsky A.
1998–2002RUS Mamiashvili M.
2002RUS Nino N.
2002–2006RUS Smorodskaya O.
2006–2009RUS Kuschenko S.
2009RUS Pak A.
2009–2012RUS Shlyachtin D.
RUS Ovsyannikov Y.
RUS Lukashov V.
2014–2017RUS Baryshev M.
2017–presentRUS Gromov A.

References

References

  1. [https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/03/28/ioc-backs-return-of-russian-athletes-as-individuals-no-timeline-for-paris-olympics-a80644 IOC Backs Return of Russian Athletes as Individuals, No Timeline for Paris Olympics]
  2. "Персоны ЦСКА".
  3. "CSKA.ru / История".
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