He managed to win a USSR ice hockey cup in 1953 and was third in the USSR hockey championship as goalkeeper.

He spent his entire professional football career with Dynamo Moscow, from 1950 to 1970, winning the USSR football championship five times and the USSR Cup three times.

He won his first of two USSR titles in the 29th Soviet championship at Baku 1961, with a score of 14½ / 20, one-half point ahead of Lev Polugaevsky.

The Soviet Chess Federation organized the " Absolute Championship of the USSR " in 1941, with the top six finishers from the 1940 championship meeting each other four times ; it was split between Leningrad and Moscow.

Vladimir Bagirov-Eduard Gufeld, USSR championship 1973 1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. e4 Nf6 5. f3 0-0 6. Be3 Nc6 7. Nge2 Rb8 8. Qd2 a6 9. Bh6 b5 10. h4 e5 11. Bxg7 Kxg7 12. h5 Kh8 13. Nd5 bxc4 14. hxg6 fxg6 15. Qh6 Nh5 16. g4 Rxb2 17. gxh5 g5 18. Rg1 g4 19. 0-0-0 Rxa2 20. Nef4 exf4 21. Nxf4 Rxf4 22. Qxf4 c3 23. Bc4 Ra3 24. fxg4 Nb4 25. Kb1 Be6 26. Bxe6 Nd3 27. Qf7 Qb8 + 28. Bb3 Rxb3 + 29. Kc2 Nb4 + 30. Kxb3 Nd5 + 31. Kc2 Qb2 + 32. Kd3 Qb5 + 0-1

* Vladimir Bagirov-Eduard Gufeld, USSR championship 1973 " The Mona Lisa " at chessgames. com

Igor played Bandy in the USSR championship with Dynamo Moscow, while Nataliya played field hockey and was the bronze medalist at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.

Played 82 games and scored 38 goals in the premier league of the USSR championship.

He was the top scorer at the USSR championship in 1978 ( 19 goals ).

In 2007, as a part of club's 80 year anniversary two gold stars were added to the top of the crest, representing ten Ukrainian championship titles and ten USSR champion titles.

The Stalinets were not the same team named Zenit that took part in the 1938 USSR championship.

* 1990, Barcelona, Spain-European championship: ( for USSR ).

A new page in the club ’ s history began when the USSR collapsed and its championship ceased to exist.

In 1936, Alaverdi's Metalurg football team participated in the first ever USSR football championship, representing the Armenian SSR, but with no any memorable achievements.

* Grigory Gamarnik, USSR, world champion ( Greco-Roman lightweight ), world championship silver

By 1978, when England won the world under-26 championship at Mexico City ahead of the USSR and a group financed by Lloyds Bank performed strongly at Lone Pine, the golden generation was on the way to the Olympiad silver medals achieved in 1984, 1986 and 1988.

In their final matches of the tournament, Sweden tied with Czechoslovakia, while the USSR won its game that day against Canada, and the triple championship.

To win the championship, Czechoslovakia needed to win its game against Sweden and for Canada to lose or tie its match with USSR.

Had Canada won against USSR and Czechoslovakia won its game over Sweden, Canada would have tied Czechoslovakia with 12 points but prevailed in the tie breaker to win the championship.

Nb6 7. e4 Bg6 8. d5 is very strong ) 6. Nc3 ( avoiding the complications of 6. Qxb7 Nd7 ; 6. Nbd2 is also good ) 6 ... Nc6 7. e4 Nxc3 8. exf5 Nd5 9. a3 ( avoiding 9. Qxb7 Bb4 +) Qd6 10. Qxb7 Rb8 11. Qa6 Be7 12. Bb5 Rb6 13. Bxc6 Rxc6 14. Qd3 exf5 15. 0-0 0-0 16. Qxf5, as in Lipnicky – Bondarevsky, USSR championship 1951.

In 1938, at nineteen, he won the Ukrainian Championship ; the following year, he won the Ukraine SSR championship, qualified to play in the USSR Chess Championship at the age of 20, and gained his national chess master title.

In 1940, Boleslavsky played in the 12th USSR championship final in Moscow.

The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.

The formation of this group, according to Camus, was to " denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA " regarding their idolatry of technology.

In 1979, the USSR removed the term " Ainu " from the list of living ethnic groups of Russia, an act by which the government proclaimed that the Ainu as an ethnic group was extinct in its territory.

In 1970 he, along with Valery Chalidze and Andrei Tverdokhlebov, was one of the founders of the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR and came under increasing pressure from the government.

The sites were Moscow for the USSR and Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, since its Safeguard facility was already under construction, for the US.

In 1997, a memorandum of understanding between the US and four of the former USSR states was signed and subject to ratification by each signatory, but it was not presented to the US Senate for advice and consent by Bill Clinton.

In addition to these troops Belarus was the area of deployment for units subordinated directly to the USSR Defence Ministry and chiefs of different Soviet Armed Forces services, namely the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, the 38th Guards Airborne Brigade, the 11th corps of the 2nd Separate Air Defence Army, the 26th Air Army and also units and formations of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long Range Aviation, the Navy and special forces.

* Other countries: In some countries, such as the former USSR, BCG was given regularly throughout life.

This definition was also often used outside the USSR during this period.

The Cuban missile crisis — known as the October crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean crisis () in the USSR — was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other ; the crisis occurred in October 1962, during the Cold War.

The Americans feared the Soviet expansion of Communism, but for a Latin American country to ally openly with the USSR was regarded as unacceptable, given the Soviet-American enmity since the end of World War II in 1945.

Khrushchev increased the perception of a missile gap when he loudly boasted to the world that the USSR was building missiles " like sausages " whose numbers and capabilities actually were nowhere close to his assertion.

On September 7, Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Dobrynin assured United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson that the USSR was supplying only defensive weapons to Cuba.

Before that, it was about 7 censuses, most part of these previous censuses was undertaken during Soviet ( USSR ) control.

In the USSR, the first work devoted to this subject was published in 1935 by professor Dmitriy V. Ageev.

In 1963 this service started in Moscow and in 1970 Altai service was used in 30 USSR cities.

The official explanation for his resignation was " to grant the request of Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers G. M. Malenkov to be released from the duties of the Party Central Committee ".

Yeltsin's action was later declared unconstitutional but by this time the USSR had ceased to exist.

Before glasnost, according to an article in The Jewish Press, Jewish ritual circumcision was forbidden in the USSR.

The paper was published in 1973 in Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences ( in Russian ).

The Finnish-Soviet Agreement of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance ( and the restrictions included therein ) was annulled but Finland recognised the Russian Federation as the successor of the USSR and was quick to draft bilateral treaties of goodwill as well as reallocating Soviet debts.

Although the country was culturally, socially, and politically Western, Finns realised they had to live in peace with the USSR and take no action that might be interpreted as a security threat.