Soviet Olympic Committee

The National Olympic Committee of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Национальный Олимпийский комитет Союза Советских Социалистических Республик – НОК СССР) was the government-funded organization representing the Soviet Union in the International Olympic Committee. The NOC USSR organized Soviet participation at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee recognized the NOC USSR on 7 May 1951 at the 45th session of the IOC.[1] Until the 1940s, the Soviet Union boycotted the Olympics because they considered them too "bourgeois". From then on, the NOC first tried to secure successes before participating in the Games.[2]

NOC USSR
NOC USSR logo
Country/Region Soviet Union
CodeURS
CreatedMay 7, 1951 (1951-05-07)
Recognized1951–1992
Continental
Association		EOC
DissolvedMarch 12, 1992 (1992-03-12)
HeadquartersMoscow

Presidents
PresidentsTerm years
Konstantin Andrianov 1951–1977
Sergei Pavlov 1977–1983
Marat Gramov 1983–1990
Vitali Smirnov 1990–2001

Soviet members of the International Olympic Committee
MemberTerm years
Konstantin Andrianov 1951–1988
Aleksei Osipowich Romanov 1952–1971
Vitali Smirnov 1971–2015
Marat Gramov 1988–1992

See also

Sources
  1. Compare: History of Olympic Committee of USSR – ria.ru "Правопреемником ОК СССР стал Олимпийский комитет России (ОКР), образованный 1 декабря 1989 года."
  2. Mertin, Evelyn (2010). "Participation is not enough. The Soviet Union in the Olympic Movement". Cahiers de l'INSEP. 46 (1): 225–233. doi:10.3406/insep.2010.1131.
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