Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
5-23 February 2014
Moscow, Ostozhenka , 16

In the Multimedia Art Museum opened an exhibition " Russia at the Olympics ," which tells the story of Russian participation athletes in the Olympic Games of the XX - beginning of XXI century. The exhibition features more than 300 photographs, documentary footage from the archives of RIA Novosti and the collection of the Museum " Moscow House of Photography ." During the exhibition will run in the Mumm online information channel RIA Novosti, which will give visitors the opportunity to watch the events of the Sochi Olympics in a mode on-line.

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• Dmitry Donskoy
  Coach Soviet skaters Tatiana Tarasova at the Olympic Games in Lake Placid . USA , 1980 . RIA Novosti Archive
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Olympic movement to develop and strengthen in Russia since the beginning of the twentieth century. Despite the efforts of enthusiasts such as a military educator, General Alexei Dmitrievich Butovsky ( a personal friend of Baron de Coubertin and the first Russian member of the International Olympic Committee ) and Count Georgy Ribotpierre , who succeeded him to the IOC , the initial participation of Russian representatives in the Olympics was mostly initiative individuals. The first performance of Russian athletes at the London Olympics in 1908 showed a high level of development of sports in the country. Games became a hero figure skater Nikolai Panin - the first in the history of the Russian Olympic champion, five-time champion Russian figure skating world championships medalist (1903) and Europe (1904 and 1908 ) , tennis player, rower, yachtsman , and 12 -time champion of Russia pistol shooting . A graduate of Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University , he came to the execution figures with mathematical precision and record all the figures in motion trajectories . Russian participants of the five Olympic medals from London back three .

• Sergey Guneev
  Inauguration closing of the XXII Summer Olympic Games. Central Lenin Stadium ( Luzhniki ) . Moscow . 1980 . RIA Novosti Archive
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• Dmitry Donskoy
  Three-time Olympic champion , Soviet skier Galina Kulakov . XI Winter Olympics . Sapporo, Japan . 1972 . RIA Novosti Archive
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In 1912, the charter was approved by the Russian Olympic Committee , received government support and funding. Russia , first presented his team at the Olympic Games in 1912 , sent to Stockholm for a total of 178 athletes - one of the largest teams. Tsarist government to send athletes to Stockholm was hired Russian ocean-going vessel of the East Asian Shipping " Burma ", it continued to live as Olympians before the end of the competition .

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  Polina Astakhov (right) Uneven Bars won the gold medal . Left - Elena Volchetskaya ( 8th place in the gymnastics all-around) . XVIII Summer Olympic Games. Japan, Tokyo . 1964 . RIA Novosti Archive
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• LEONID Dorenskiy
  XVII Olympic champion gymnast Boris Shakhlin performs exercises on the bars . Rome, Italy . 1960 . RIA Novosti Archive
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However, after the 1912 Russian athletes in the Olympics did not participate as much as 40 years. And only in 1952 the team now from the Soviet Union came to the games in Helsinki. In the early postwar years, receive international recognition section football , weightlifting , basketball, enter into international federations athletes , wrestlers, swimmers , skaters , chess players , skiers , volleyball . It has become impossible to ignore the achievements of Soviet athletes in international competitions .

• Yuriy Somov
  Meeting on hockey teams of the USSR and Canada , which won the Soviet hockey players 3-2. Moment of the game when it was packed with another goal against Canadians. IX Winter Olympic Games . Innsbruck, Austria . 1964 . RIA Novosti Archive
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• BORIS MALKOV
  Fedor Terent'ev , Pavel Kolchin, Nikolai Anikin Vladimir Kuzin - members of the Soviet team that won gold medal in ski relay 4 × 10 km . VII Olympic Winter Games . Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy. 1956 . RIA Novosti Archive
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to study the experience of organizing the competition , the level of technical training teams , athletes specifics of individual techniques in 1948 in London at the XIV Olympic Games was sent a delegation of observers ( shortly before it on the basis of a trip to the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , it was decided that the winter Games to participate too early ) . The very first result was the finding that in most sports for the USSR the number one contender is the United States of America . Long years of confrontation between the two countries was accompanied by athletes contest the Olympic Games, World Championships , many international tournaments .

In 1950, the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games in Helsinki in Moscow sent an official invitation to participate in the games , and it was accepted. Was created by the Olympic Committee of the Soviet Union , which received recognition from the International Olympic Committee . Accession of our country to the Olympic Movement greatly increased interest in the subsequent Games .

ANATOLIY GARANIN Victor Chukarin becomes the first in the USSR absolute Olympic champion. In addition to gold in individual and team championships , on horseback and on the vault , Chukarin produces silver on the uneven bars and rings. XV Olympic Summer Games . Helsinki. 1952 . RIA Novosti Archive Source : mamm-mdf.ru ​​

ANATOLIY GARANIN Absolute Olympic champion , Soviet gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya (left) and Nina Ponomareva ( Romashkova ) , who won the first gold medal in the discus throw . XV Olympic Summer Games . Helsinki. 1952 . RIA Novosti Archive Source : mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Participation in the Olympics for the USSR was a powerful political and ideological factor . Achievements of the Soviet sports become mass ideology , the subject deserved national pride against the backdrop of the complicated history of the country. Pictures taken by leading photographers, affect the magnitude of the events , make visible the history of sports , fixing outstanding records, face champions emotions fans. Faces Contest winners in 1952 in Helsinki Yuri Tyukalova ( rowing ) and Victor Chukarina ( gymnast who won four gold medals ) , Mary Gorokhovskaya ( gymnastics) and Nina Ponomareva ( Romashkova ) ( discus ) are known in the country thanks to PHOTOREPORTS Anatolia Garanina ( Archive RIA Novosti ).

Pictures special correspondent APN - RIA Novosti Dmitry Kozlov , Boris Malkov , Leonid Dorensky , Yuri Somov , Dmitry Donskoy , Sergey Ilyin and others demonstrate the brightest moments of competitions in different sports : skiing, gymnastics , athletics , fencing , biathlon, etc. and of course, ice hockey and figure skating . Achievements skaters and ice hockey team of the country - is the apotheosis of the success of Soviet sport . Gold medals won by our team at the Winter Olympics in 1956 , 1964, 1968 , 1972, 1976 , 1984, 1988, 1992. Such an exciting past can not boast of any other country, even if it has more medals in the team competition . Olympic podium occupied predominantly Soviet and later Russian skaters . As in ancient Athens , the country knew the names and faces of their national heroes. The portraits and paintings of athletes poignant moments sports shot classics domestic photography Baltermants , Alexander Abaza , Lev Borodulin , reflects the psychology of athletes and wrestling .

Sergey Guneev Russian figure skater Irina Slutskaya performing during the XIX Olympic Winter games in Salt Lake City. She won the silver medal in figure skating . USA, 2002 . RIA Novosti Archive Source : mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Sergey Guneev Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva won the gold medal in the pole vault at the Summer Games of the XXVIII Olympiad . Athens, Greece . 2004 . RIA Novosti Archive Source : mamm-mdf.ru ​​

color appears in sports photography in the 1950s , but according to the "color" becomes Olympics 80 Moscow. Difficult political situation surrounding the Olympic Games and the boycott of the Moscow competition a number of Western countries led by the United States, the willingness of all facilities before the IOC vote and lack of experience in welcoming guests at such events full - took place in an atmosphere of the Moscow Olympics . And it was a real sporting event . Saturated color and dynamic compositions by Sergei Guneyev work , Valery Shustov Andrey Knyazev - a collective portrait of the XXII Summer Olympic Games in Moscow .

In the 1990s, a system of mass and professional sport in Russia was subjected to a severe test . Despite the difficulties , in 2007, decided that the XXII Olympic Winter Games will be held in Sochi. Those few years , while there was construction of Olympic facilities in the community did not abate the controversy about the need and desirability of the Olympics. But today Sochi takes Olympic athletes will be opened tomorrow . And there is hope that , like 30 years ago, we will experience the Olympics as a personal sports festival , no wonder games slogan reads: " Hot . Winter . Your ».

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