Kolos (sports society)

See also: National Olympic Committee of Ukraine

Kolos (Ukrainian: Всеукраїнське фізкультурно-спортивне товариство «Колос» агропромислового комплексу України, ВФСТ «Колос») is a fitness-sport society of the Agro-Industrial Complex of Ukraine, formerly a rural sports society and a trade unions - cooperative sports society that was uniting farmers, workers, servicemen, technicians of agricultural organizations, enterprises, establishments, and educational institutions. Created in 1950 under the name of "Kolhospnyk" (farmer of kolkhoz), it changed its name to Kolos in 1970.

Description

On 1 January 1979 it accounted for 13,835 primary collectives with over three millions of sportsmen.

The society was cultivating 45 types of sports.

In 1982 the society merged with its Russian counterpart "Urozhai".

In 1990 the society was revived in the Ukrainian SSR and later - Ukraine.[1]

Olympic centers

References

  1. ^ All-Union Volunteer Sports Society of Trade Unions. History of Poltava (portal).