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Sovetsky Sport Newspaper Information

Sovetsky Sport is a Russian (formerly Soviet) national daily sports newspaper. Between 1924 and 1946 the newspaper was called "Red Sports", it was not printed between 1928 and 1932.

Founded on July 20, 1924, in Moscow, it was the first sports newspaper of the USSR, an official organ of the USSR State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports and All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. One of the major Soviet newspapers, in 1975 Soviet Sports was distributed in 104 countries and had a circulation of 3,900,000 (which increased to more than 5,000,000 in 1988). Having the nominal price of three kopeks, it was accessible to everyone in the country.