We Were at the Sports Day

Moscow city. On August 8, 1959, the opening of the 2nd Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR at the Central Stadium in Luzhniki. Parade of the Spartakiad participants. Mass gymnastic exercises of athletes. Start, finish of motorcycle races included in the program of the Olympics for the first time. Newsreel. All-Union Spartakiad in 1928. G. Popova won the 100-meter race among women and Ozolin among men. I. Kashkarov and R. Shavlakadze compete in high jump; in the pole vault I. Petrenko, the winner, I. Ter-Hovhannisyan in long. Irina and Tamara Press are pushing the cannonball. P. Bolotnikov is taking part in the men's 10,000 meter race. Among the spectators V. Kuts. The competition is being filmed by a cameraman and a press photographer. Weightlifters compete, among them L. Zhabotinsky, Y. Vlasov. Competitions in swimming, jumping from a platform, tennis players, basketball players, cyclists, artistic gymnastics (SI Muratova). National types of wrestling. Presentation of prizes.

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Composer S. Soloviev-Sedoy, script, text by I. Prok, Y. Trifonov