CSKA.Sportivnaya doblest armii

The history of CSKA is closely intertwined with the past of domestic sports. One of the oldest sports clubs in Russia, CSKA has survived three wars, withstood various political cataclysms, but has preserved its spirit and its traditions that united many generations of its athletes, coaches and employees. No matter what flags they played under - OLS, OPPV, CDKA, CDSA, CSK MO and, finally, CSKA - representatives of this titled club could always be found on pedestals, covers of leading sports publications, and during the war years - on the most difficult tasks that only the best athletes could do. This book is dedicated to them - the people who forged the golden pages of the history of the legendary CSKA with their willpower, sporting achievements, organizational and coaching skills, and, if necessary, with weapons. .Based on unique archival data, memoirs of athletes and coaches, publications from the press of that time, analytical materials of sports journalists and specialists, provided with a large number of illustrations, the book gives a three-dimensional picture of the life of CSKA in the past and present. On its pages, you can not only get acquainted with the club's past, but also plunge into the heated atmosphere of competitions with the participation of army men, learn facts from the biographies of leading athletes and coaches, see what they were wearing, where they performed and what CSKA athletes were awarded during its many years of activity. There is the joy of victories and the bitterness of defeats, the rise to the first lines of the tournament tables, the difficult years of the war and the difficult situation quite recently ... .CSKA has never followed an easy and well-trodden road, its team has always been at the forefront in the introduction of new sports, techniques and tactics, at the forefront of the development of mass sports and sports of high achievements. Today, despite all the past hardships, the legendary club looks to the future with optimism, and the results of the performances of CSKA athletes speak for themselves. After all, they are the sporting prowess of our army. 

Author: Dmitry Alekseevich Klochkov
Year of publication: 2019
Number of pages: 624.