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The history of the football club and sports society "Spartak" originates from the Russian Gymnastics Society (RGO Sokol [ru]), which was founded on 16 May 1883.
Football Club Spartak Moscow were founded in 1922 as the football branch of a much larger sports society called “Moscow Sport Circle”. Unlike other clubs that had powerful sponsors like the army, the police, or the railways, Spartak were associated with simple workers, members of a trade union, something that earned them the title of “The ...
Spartak był założony w 1934 roku przez braci Starostinów, ale historia zespołu sięga do 1922 roku i tę datę klub uznaje oficjalnie. Do historii klubu przypisuje się drużyny Krasnaja Priesnia i Piszczewiki grające w Mistrzostwach Moskwy.
Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev, the most titled coach in the history of the red-and-whites, became its chairman, and Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan, Spartak's best scorer in all the years of the team's performance, was elected honorary president.
In the informative, entertaining, and generously illustrated Spartak Moscow, a book that will be cheered by soccer fans worldwide, Robert Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch keys to understanding everyday life under Stalin, Khrushchev, and their successors.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.cttq43j3.5. On September 30, 1939, the members of the Soviet Union’s most popular soccer team, Spartak Moscow, prepared to take the field at Dinamo Stadium, where they were to play the semifinal of that year’s national cup competition.
Spartak, he argues, had originated as the “people’s” team, representing common, ordinary Muscovites, a team from the mean streets of industrial Moscow. In sport, unlike other areas of Soviet life, he suggests, a person was free to choose one’s team.
