Badge "50 years to the society "Dynamo""

Bronze, enamel. Very good collectors condition. Size 20*29 mm. original Guaranteed.

Dynamo Sports Society is the name of a number of sports societies in socialist countries. Initially, in the USSR it belonged to the GPU system of the NKVD of the RSFSR. In the early years of its existence, Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926), Chairman of the GPU of the NKVD of the RSFSR, was the honorary chairman of the Dynamo Society.

In 1923, a group of employees of the headquarters of the troops of the State Political Administration (GPU) of the Moscow District, led by P. S. Uralets, following the directive of the GPU leadership on improving the physical and combat training of personnel, initiated a new departmental organization, the Proletarian Sports Society Dynamo. The name was proposed by L. Nedolei-Goncharenko, the head of the political department of the GPU, a former worker at the Dynamo plant. The society was founded on April 18, 1923 in Moscow. The original name was the Moscow Proletarian Dynamo Society. The slogan is "Power is in motion." Throughout the history of the society, its full official name has changed several times, but the short name has never been changed. In June 1934, the children's sports organization "Young Dynamo" was established at the central council of the Dynamo Sports Association. By a decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR dated July 22, 1937, the Dynamo society was awarded the Order of Lenin for outstanding achievements in work and a leading role in the physical culture movement.

The historical confrontation between the Central Army Sports Club and the Dynamo Society, which lasted from the moment of the emergence of these organizations until the collapse of the USSR, is widely known. The peak of the confrontation occurred in the 70s and 80s, when it was a matter of honor for the athletes of both teams not to lose the prestige of their organization. It was for this purpose that sports companies were created in the Armed Forces (CSKA) — non-combat and non-medical military units, where sports (physical) training occupied 100% of combat training (not counting political activities). In response, the Dynamo society tried to attract the most talented young athletes and experienced coaches from other sports organizations and clubs that did not have such strong and influential patronage (Spartak, Zenit, Pishchevik, "Petrel" and so on). In 1986, for an equivalent confrontation between Dynamo and CSKA, the rest of the sports organizations created the united All-Union voluntary Physical Culture and Sports Society of trade unions, which included Spartak, Zenit, Burevestnik, Trudovye Reservy, Vodnik, Lokomotiv, Trud and Urozhay. Every year, more than one billion rubles (about 1.5 billion US dollars as of 1987, or 28 billion dollars as of today) from the total budget of the trade unions were spent on physical education and sports activities so that they could compete at least with Dynamo and CSKA. The cost of material and labor resources for the functioning of all three organizations in the USSR was enormous, even by modern standards.

The phrase "Soviet School", which still exists and periodically appears in print and on television, is a remnant of the former power and rivalry of CSKA and Dynamo. Currently, it is called the CSO VFSO Dynamo (the Public-state Association All-Russian Physical Culture and Sports Society Dynamo). Vladimir Pronichev is the chairman of the CSO VFSO Dynamo.