Medal. Tabletop Medal 60 years Jubilee of Dynamo Sports Club
Dimensions | 5.5 × 5.5 cm |
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Century | 20 |
Medal.
Dynamo, also Dinamo, (Russian: Динамо) is a sports and fitness society created in 1923 in the Soviet Union.
The name given to the society was supposed to mean “Power in Motion”, taken from the Greek: δύναμις; dynamis -power, and Latin: motio, -motion. Dynamo, together with Armed Forces sports societies and Voluntary Sports Societies, made up the universal system of physical education and sports of the USSR. Forty-five sports disciplines were sanctioned by the society in 1971. It had some 6,000 sports facilities and 43 Children and Youth Sport Schools.
The “Dinamo” society was officially created on April 18, 1923, on Felix Dzerzhinsky’s initiative and under the sponsorship of the State Political Directorate (GPU), the Soviet political police, the predecessor of other later created Soviet security structures such as KGB, NKVD and MVD. For the rest of the society’s history in the Soviet period, it maintained some connection with the state security apparatus.