Dynamo Sports Club

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Dynamo or Dinamo (Russian: Динамо, romanized: Dinamo; Ukrainian: Динамо, romanized: Dynamo; Belarusian: Дынама, romanized: Dynama; Georgian: დინამო, romanized: dinamo) is a public sports and fitness society with its headquarters in Moscow, Russia. It was originally created in 1923 in the Soviet Union as an all-Soviet sports organization, with branches established within each union republic. The society functioned as an association of multi-sport clubs in various cities, with athletes historically drawn from the NKVD and, after World War II, from the MVD and the KGB. With the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe after World War II, similar Dynamo societies were established throughout the Eastern Bloc, such as SV Dynamo in East Germany. In 1960, the All-Russian sports and fitness society Dynamo was established and operated on the territory of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Dynamo central office merged into the All-Russian sports...

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