Soviet literature dealing with sport and physical training

[Vladimir Shatsev]

Dear Dunja,

You can find a lot of interesting stuff in the 3rd volume of Aksyonov's 
Moskovskaya Saga. It is about sportsmen, mostly about racing motor-cyclists 
from Vas'ka Stalin's club VVS which was the rival of Beria's sports club 
Dinamo.

Regards,

Vladimir Shatsev

Language and Drama Teacher

Russian House Community Centre www.russianhouse.ca

Phone.: 416-236-5563
Cell : 416-333-2051

Email: vladimir.shatsev at russianhouse.ca




>From: "A.Smith" <a.smith at CAVEROCK.NET.NZ>
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>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Soviet literature dealing with sport and physical 
>training
>Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:21:29 +0100
>
>Dear Dunja,
>
>You might wish to consider a few items below:
>
>1. Osip Mandel'shtam's 1931 poem "Sokhrani moiu rech' za privkus ischad'ia 
>I
>dyma...". The last stanza includes two lines that feature an old  Russian
>game "gorodki":
>"Lish' by tol'ko liubili menia eti merzlye plakhi,
>Kak, natselias' na smert', gorodki zashibaiut v sadu".
>
>2. Andrei Starostin's book "Bol'shoi futbol" (Molodaia gvardiia, Moskva,
>1957;1959;1964) might be of interest to you, too.  It talks about
>Starostin's  experience as football coach in Noril'sk (in the 1944-53) [he
>was arrested and sent to Noril'sk].
>3. His brother Aleksandr Starosrtin also published a book about Soviet
>sportsmen -- under the title "Rasskaz kapitana" (1935) (it features Soviet
>football players, boxers and athletes visiting the Czech Republic).
>4.Andrei's and Aleksandr's brother Nikolaj wrote a book that tells the 
>story
>of Stalin's attacks on "Spartak" in 1937-- several players were arrested as
>a result of this campaign. See: Starostin, N.P. Vesna Patriarkha: Delo
>brat'ev Starostinykh. Pechal'naia pristan', compiled by Kuznetsov I.L.,
>Syktyvar: Komi knizhnoe izdatel'stvo, 1991.
>5. One of Starostin's brothers was a friend of Yurii Olesha who describes
>him in his autobiographical work "Ni dnia bez strochki". In his youth 
>Olesha
>was an ardent football player himself.
>
>Best,
>
>Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
>
>Lecturer in Russian, University of Sheffield
>
>Alexandra.Smith at sheffield.ac.uk
>
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