Trudovye Rezervy

The emblem of the VSS Trudovye Rezervy

Trudovye Rezervy (Russian: Трудовые резервы; English: Labour Reserves) — voluntary sport society of students of professional-technical schools in the USSR and later in post-Soviet countries.

Founded on June 19th, 1943 as an all-union voluntary sport society and operated by the trade unions. In 1975 5,538 physical culture collectives by the educational institutions, i.e. more than 2.7 million people, belonged to the society. 44 sports disciplines were cultivated, the most popular being athletics, boxing, amateur wrestling, rowing, skiing, shooting, football, basketball, volleyball. Trudovye Rezervy had 18,000 sports constructions, including 39 stadiums, 50 swimming pools and more than 3,000 sports halls.

Notable members

• Svetlana Boginskaya (artistic gymnastics)
• Yelena Belevskaya (athletics)
• Marina Zhirova (athletics)
• Yevgeniy Ivchenko (athletics)
• Vladimir Lovetskiy (athletics)
• Valeriy Podluzhniy (athletics)
• Oleg Grigoryev (boxing)
• Boris Kuznetsov (boxing)
• Viktor Mednov (boxing)
• Danas Pozniakas (boxing)
• Vassily Solomin (boxing)
• Stanislav Stepashkin (boxing)
• David Torosyan (boxing)
• Vladimir Yengibaryan (boxing)
• Ivans Klementjevs (canoeing)
• Liliya Vassilchenko (cross-country skiing)
• Dmitri Bulykin (football)

External links

• (Russian) VSS Trudovye Rezervy in Minsk
• (Russian) Sport Flags of the USSR