Soviet Athletics Championships
SportTrack and field
Founded1920
Ceased1991
CountrySoviet Union

The Soviet Athletics Championships (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по лёгкой атлетике) was an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Soviet Athletics Federation, which served as the Soviet national championship for the sport.

The early history of event traces back to two events organised by a Moscow-based skiing club: this was first held in 1920 for men only. Following the Declaration of the Creation of the USSR, the next two editions in 1923 and 1924 increased in size and were held as an All-Union sports festival. A marked increase came in 1928 when 1281 athletes competed, drawing from five Union Republics, 12 regions of the Russian SDSSR and 11 foreign delegations. The event was held consistently every year from 1943 onwards. The athletics competition was incorporated into the quadrennial Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR during the latter event's lifespan from 1956 to 1991 (with the exception of 1986).[1]

The event programme typically was close to that featured in the Olympic Games athletics competition, though the marathon, road racewalking, and combined track and field events were usually held at separate championships. It was common for there to be both an individual Soviet Championships and a national athletics championship for clubs.[2][3]

The last Soviet Athletics Championships was hosted in Kyiv in 1991 and it ceased thereafter due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. A final shared championships was held in 1992 between the Commonwealth of Independent States, after which point the newly independent nations hosted their own national championship events.[1]

Editions

# Year Venue Date Stadium Notes
1 1920 Moscow 20–24 June Skiing Sports Society Stadium
2 1922 Moscow 3–10 September Skiing Sports Society Stadium
3 1923 Moscow 1–8 September
4 1924 Moscow 31 August – 1 September
5 1927 Moscow 20–28 August
6 1928 Moscow 11–21 August Food Union Stadium
7 1931 Moscow 15–19 June Central Dynamo Stadium
8 1934 Moscow 1–6 August Central Dynamo Stadium
9 1935 Moscow 11–12 September Central Dynamo Stadium
10 1936 Moscow 18–24 August Central Dynamo Stadium
11 1937 Moscow 20–24 August Central Dynamo Stadium
12 1938 Kharkiv 20–24 August Dynamo Stadium
13 1939 Kharkiv 24–30 August Dynamo Stadium
14 1940 Moscow 20–24 August Central Dynamo Stadium
15 1943 Gorky 3–9 September Dynamo Stadium
16 1944 Moscow 13–18 August Central Dynamo Stadium
17 1945 Kyiv 9–16 September Republican Stadium
18 1946 Dnepropetrovsk 8–15 September Steel Stadium
19 1947 Kharkiv 20 August – 5 September Dynamo Stadium
20 1948 Kharkiv 5–12 September Dynamo Stadium
21 1949 Moscow 3–9 September Central Dynamo Stadium
22 1950 Kyiv 17–23 September Republican Stadium
23 1951 Minsk 26 August – 1 September Dinamo Stadium
24 1952 Leningrad 24–30 August Kirov Stadium
25 1953 Moscow 23–25 August Central Dynamo Stadium
26 1954 Kyiv 12–16 September Republican Stadium
27 1955 Tbilisi 13–17 November Dinamo Stadium
28 1956 Moscow 5–16 August Central Lenin Stadium
29 1957 Moscow 28 August – 2 September Central Lenin Stadium
30 1958 Tallinn

Tbilisi

 19–21 July 28 October – 2 November Kalevi Keskstaadion

Dinamo Stadium
31 1959 Moscow 9–14 August Central Lenin Stadium
32 1960 Moscow

Kyiv

 15–18 July

15–19 October

 Central Lenin Stadium

Central Stadium
33 1961 Tbilisi 5–9 October Dinamo Stadium
34 1962 Moscow

Tashkent

 11–13 August

13–19 October

 Central Lenin Stadium

Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium
35 1963 Moscow 9–15 August Central Lenin Stadium
36 1964 Kyiv 27–30 August Republican Stadium
37 1965 Almaty 9–17 October Almaty Central Stadium
38 1966 Dnepropetrovsk

Leninakan

 12–14 August

4–6 October

 Meteor Stadium

City Stadium
39 1967 Moscow 28 July – 1 August Central Lenin Stadium
40 1968 Sevan

Leninakan

Tsaghkadzor

Yalta

 12–13 August

15–18 August

21–22 August

15 October
41 1969 Noginsk

Kyiv

Uzhhorod

Sochi

 19 July 1969

17–20 August

15–16 October

1–2 November

 Noginsk City Stadium

Central Stadium

Avanhard Stadium

Central Stadium South
42 1970 Minsk

Fryazino

 12–14 September

12–13 September

 Dinamo Stadium
43 1971 Moscow 16–19 July Central Lenin Stadium
44 1972 Moscow 14–20 July Central Lenin Stadium
45 1973 Moscow 4–14 July Central Lenin Stadium
46 1974 Moscow 6–7 July

23–26 July

 Central Lenin Stadium
47 1975 Moscow 27–30 July Central Lenin Stadium
48 1976 Kyiv

Klaipėda

Yerevan

 10–24 June 15 August

26–29 August

 Republican Stadium

City streets

Hrazdan Stadium
49 1977 Moscow

Riga

 26–29 July

2–3 July

 Central Lenin Stadium

Dinamo Stadium
50 1978 Moscow

Donetsk

Tbilisi

 25 June

29–30 July

15–18 September

 City streets

Lokomotiv Stadium

Dinamo Stadium
51 1979 Moscow 21–29 July Central Lenin Stadium
52 1980 Moscow

Donetsk

 29–21 June

6–9 September

 Central Lenin Stadium

Lokomotiv Stadium
53 1981 Leningrad

Leningrad

Moscow

 24–26 July

1–2 August

16–19 September

 Lenin Stadium

Central Lenin Stadium
54 1982 Moscow

Leningrad

(Kyiv)
55 1983 Moscow
56 1984 Donetsk 7–9 September Lokomotiv Stadium
57 1985 Leningrad
58 1986 Moscow

Kyiv
59 1987 Moscow

Mogilev Cheboksary

Novopolotsk

Bryansk

Tallinn

 12 June 12 June

12 July

16–19 July

18–19 July

 Start & finish at Desna Stadium
60 1988

Kyiv
61 1989 Leningrad
62 1990

Kyiv
63 1991 Kyiv

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Soviet Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  2. ↑ Абдуллаев А.М., Орлов Р.В. и др. Книга легкоатлета М.: Физкультура и спорт, 1971 384 с.
  3. ↑ Лёгкая атлетика. Справочник / Составитель Р. В. Орлов. – М.: "Физкультура и спорт", 1983. – 392 с.
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