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General articles and lists

Requested articles

• see Template:Russia bids for the Olympic Games
• Sport in Moscow

Expansion needed

• add Category:Russian sportsperson–politicians to more articles
• Sport in Russia
• Sport in Saint Petersburg
• List of Russians in Sports
• Sergei Belosselsky-Belozersky
• Vsevolod Bobrov
• Voluntary Sports Societies of the Soviet Union
• Armed Forces (sports society)
• CSKA Moscow
• Spartak (sports society)
• Zenit (sports society)
• Dynamo Sports Club
• Lokomotiv (sports society)
• Lapta (game)
• Burevestnik (sports society)
• Trudovye Rezervy
• DOSAAF
• Vodnik (sports society)
• Sports school
• List of Soviet Union top ten athletes of the year
• Fizkultura i sport (publisher)
• Spartakiad
• Soviet Union at the Olympics
• Russia at the Paralympics
• 1973 Summer Universiade

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Commons:RIA Novosti/1980 Summer Olympics.

• Russian Olympic Committee
• Bids for the 1980 Summer Olympics
• 1980 Summer Olympics (add more images)
• List of flag bearers for Soviet Union at the Olympics
• List of flag bearers for Russia at the Olympics
• 1980 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
• 1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony
• Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics
• 1980 Summer Olympics medal table (add more images)
• Misha
• Venues of the 1980 Summer Olympics (add more images)
• Luzhniki Olympic Complex
• Olympic Stadium (Moscow)
• Russia at the World Games
• Unified Team at the Olympics
• 1998 World Youth Games (provide more images)
• Russia at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
• Russia at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
• Russia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
• Russia at the 2010 Winter Olympics (more about insufficient attention to the new Winter Olympic sports, such as snowboarding etc.)
• 2013 Summer Universiade
  • 2013 Summer Universiade venues
• Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee
• 2014 Winter Olympics, Sochi bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics
• 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games mascots
• Venues of the 2014 Winter Olympics
• Krasnaya Polyana, Krasnodar Krai
• Sochi Medals Plaza

Attention needed

• Ivan Yarygin Sports Palace
• Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR

Aquatics

Expansion needed

• 2015 World Aquatics Championships
• Alexander Popov (swimmer) (consider move)
• Larisa Ilchenko
• Anastasia Davydova
• Mariya Kiselyova
• Natalia Ishchenko
• Svetlana Romashina
• Anastasiya Yermakova
• Dmitri Sautin
• Russia men's national water polo team
• Russia women's national water polo team
• Russian Women's Water Polo Championship
• Uralochka Zlatoust
• Vladimir Salnikov
• Yevgeny Sadovyi

Attention needed

• Natalia Molchanova

Athletics

Requested articles

• Viktor Chyogin [1]

Expansion needed

• Pavel Lednyov
• Russia at the 2010 European Athletics Championships

Bandy

Requested articles

• Russian Bandy Supreme League, the 2nd tier of the Russian bandy league system
• Russian bandy league system (something like Swedish bandy league system)
• Articles on more Russian bandy clubs; at present, almost the only clubs with articles are the ones in the Russian Bandy Super League
• Russian Bandy League for women

Expansion needed

• Bandy (add more about history, clean-up, more Russia-related images)
• Russian Bandy League
• Soviet Union national bandy team
• Soviet Union women's national bandy team
• Russia national bandy team
• Russia women's national bandy team

Attention needed

• 1965 Bandy World Championship
• 1973 Bandy World Championship
• 1989 Bandy World Championship

Basketball

Expansion needed

• Russian Basketball Cup
• Soviet Union national basketball team
• EuroBasket 1965
• Soviet Women's Basketball Championship
• Russian Basketball Super League
• Russian Women's Basketball Premier League
• VTB United League
• Soviet Union women's national basketball team
• Russia national basketball team
• Russia women's national basketball team
• Sergei Belov
• Gennadi Volnov
• PBC CSKA Moscow
• WBC CSKA Moscow
• WBC Spartak Moscow Region

Attention needed

• Sergei Tarakanov

Biathlon

Expansion needed

• Alexander Tikhonov
• Albina Akhatova (translate more from ru-wiki)
• Svetlana Ishmouratova
• Olga Zaitseva
• Anfisa Reztsova
• Olga Medvedtseva

Boxing

Expansion needed

• Nikolai Valuev (add more images, expand intro)
• Natascha Ragosina

Canoeing

Expansion needed

• Aleksandr Kostoglod
• Maxim Opalev

Attention needed

• Vladimir Parfenovich

Card games

Attention needed

• Durak (provide citations)

Chess & checkers

Expansion needed

• see Template:World Chess Championships
• Russian checkers
• Fortress chess
• Russian Chess Championship
• Soviet Chess School
• USSR Chess Championship (move)
• Soviet Women's Chess Championship
• Moscow City Chess Championship
• Moscow 1925 chess tournament
• Leningrad City Chess Championship
• World Chess Championship 1897
• St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament
• Chess City (check neutrality)
• List of Russian chess players
• Alexander Petrov
• Mikhail Chigorin
• Vera Menchik
• Lyudmila Rudenko
• Elisabeth Bykova
• Olga Rubtsova
• Russian Chess Federation
• Alexander Khalifman

Attention needed

• World Chess Championship (add more images)
• Vladimir Alatortsev (provide citations)
• Vasily Smyslov (add more images)
• Anatoly Karpov (add more images, deal with tags)
• Alexei Alekhine
• Chigorin Memorial

Cross-country skiing

Expansion needed

• Raisa Smetanina
• Galina Kulakova
• Lyubov Yegorova
• Larisa Lazutina
• Yelena Välbe
• Yuliya Chepalova
• Olga Danilova
• Nina Gavrilyuk

Cycling

Expansion needed

• Russian Cycling Federation
• Team Katusha (add images)

Fencing

Expansion needed

• Galina Gorokhova
• Stanislav Pozdniakov

Figure skating

Expansion needed

• Figure Skating Federation of Russia
• Cup of Russia
• Soviet Figure Skating Championships
• Russian Figure Skating Championships
• 1896 World Figure Skating Championships
• Nikolai Panin
• Maria Butyrskaya
• Igor Moskvin
• Irina Rodnina
• Alexei Ulanov
• Alexandr Nikitich Panshin
• Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev
• Tatiana Tarasova
• Yubileyny Sports Palace

Attention needed

• Evgeni Plushenko (add more images)
• Irina Slutskaya (add more images)
• Viktor Kudriavtsev

Football

Requested articles

• see Amateur Football League
• Football in the Soviet Union

Expansion needed

• Football in Russia
• Soviet Top League
• Soviet Cup
• Soviet Footballer of the Year
• Soviet Union national football team
• Nikolay Latyshev
• Tofik Bahramov
• Spartak (sports society)
• Russian Football Union
• Russia at the FIFA World Cup
• Russia at the UEFA European Football Championship
• 1960 European Nations' Cup Final
• 2005 UEFA Cup Final
• 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup
• Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup bid
• 2018 FIFA World Cup
• List of football clubs in Russia
• List of football stadiums in Russia
• Starostin brothers, Nikolai Starostin
• Russia national football team (add more images)
• Russia women's national football team
• Russia national under-19 football team
• Russia national beach soccer team
• Russian Premier League (add more images, expand intro)
• Footballer of the Year in Russia (Futbol)
• Footballer of the Year in Russia (Sport-Express)
• Grigory Fedotov club
• Russian Women's Cup
• Gavriil Kachalin
• Eduard Malofeyev
• Nikolai Petrovich Morozov
• Valentin Nikolayev (footballer)
• Aleksandr Ponomarev
• Vladimir Salkov
• Lev Yashin club (add more images)
• Russian Second Division
• Football Championship of the National League
• Russian Cup (football)
• Russian Super Cup
• Russian Premier League Cup
• Yuri Zhirkov (add more images, deal with tags, expand intro)
• Roman Pavlyuchenko (add more images, expand intro)
• FC Rostov, FC Tom Tomsk, FC Saturn Moscow Oblast, FC Alania Vladikavkaz, FC Sibir Novosibirsk, FC Moscow, FC Shinnik Yaroslavl, FC Khimki, FC Krylia Sovetov Samara
• Dynamo Sports Club
• Vyacheslav Koloskov
• Valeri Nepomniachi
• Sergei Ignashevich
• New Zenit Stadium

Attention needed

• The Death Match (check neutrality)
• Eduard Streltsov (add more images)
• FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Spartak Moscow, FC Rubin Kazan, FC Dynamo Moscow, FC Kuban Krasnodar, FC Lokomotiv Moscow (adding and managing images needed, expand intro, deal with tags)
• Ruslan Ablayev (de-orphan)
• Aleksandr Andryushchenko (de-orphan)
• Eduard Malofeyev
• Gennady Orlov
• FC Saturn Moscow Oblast (1946–2011) (move)
• 2008 UEFA Super Cup, 2008 UEFA Cup Final (add pics)
• North-West Football Championship

Gymnastics

Expansion needed

• World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
  • 1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
  • 1981 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• Viktor Chukarin
• Larissa Latynina (consider move)
• Boris Shakhlin
• Nikolai Andrianov
• Galima Shugurova
• Alexander Dityatin
• Olga Kapranova
• Irina Tchachina
• Alexei Nemov
• Yevgeniya Kanayeva
• Vera Sessina
• Galina Beloglazova
• Irina Viner

Attention needed

• Alina Kabaeva (add more images, deal with tags)
• Lyudmila Artemyeva

Handball

Expansion needed

• Russia men's national handball team
• Soviet Union men's national handball team
• Russia national beach handball team
• Russia women's national beach handball team
• Russia women's national handball team
• Russian Handball Super League
• Andrey Lavrov
• Alexander Borisovich Kozhukhov

Attention needed

• Handball Union of Russia

Ice hockey

Expansion needed

• Ice hockey (add more information about Russia, more images)
• No coward plays hockey
• Soviet Championship League
• Russian Five
• Soviet Union national ice hockey team
• 1957 World Ice Hockey Championships
• 1973 World Ice Hockey Championships
• 1979 World Ice Hockey Championships
• 1979 Challenge Cup
• Soviet Cup (ice hockey)
• Soviet MVP (ice hockey)
• HC CSKA Moscow
• HC Dynamo Moscow
• Ice Hockey Federation of Russia
• Russia men's national ice hockey team
• Russia men's national junior ice hockey team
• Russia women's national ice hockey team
• Kontinental Hockey League (expand, add more images)
  • Gagarin Cup
  • Kharlamov Cup
  • Bobrov Division, Tarasov Division, Kharlamov Division, Chernyshev Division
• Anatoli Tarasov
• Viktor Tikhonov
• Aleksandr Maltsev
• Sergei Makarov
• Vladislav Tretiak
• Vyacheslav Bykov
• Viacheslav Fetisov
• Alexei Kasatonov
• Russian Elite Hockey Goal Scoring Champion
• Russian Elite Hockey Scoring Champion
• Salavat Yulaev Ufa, HC Spartak Moscow, Atlant Moscow Oblast, SKA Saint Petersburg, PHC Krylya Sovetov, HC Lada Togliatti, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, Ak Bars Kazan, HC Avangard Omsk‎
• Zinetula Bilyaletdinov

Attention needed

• List of IIHF World Championship medalists (add more images)
• Russian Hockey Second League
• Summit Series, Super Series, 1974 Summit Series, Super Series '76, Super Series '76-77 (add more images)

Martial arts

Expansion needed

• Russian martial arts
• Naadam, Oil wrestling, Mongolian wrestling, Khuresh, Kurash, Köräş
• Alexander Retuinskih
• Kadochnikov's Systema
• Systema
• Anatoly Kharlampiyev

Attention needed

• Sambo (martial art)
• Army hand-to-hand fight, Spetsnaz GRU hand-to-hand combat style
• Russian fist fighting
• Mikhail Ryabko

Motor sports

Expansion needed

• Aerobatics (add more information and images related to Russian teams)
• Russian Grand Prix
• Vladimir Chagin
• Autodrom Moscow

Speed skating

Expansion needed

• Svetlana Zhurova

Shooting

Requested articles

• Yefim Khaidurov - famous Soviet sport shooter and designer of sport pistols, see [2], [3] ( Хайдуров Ефим Леонтьевич)

Tennis

Expansion needed

• Kremlin Cup
• Russia Fed Cup team
• Russia Davis Cup team
• St. Petersburg Open
• Siberia Cup
• Kazan Kremlin Cup
• Yugra Cup

Attention needed

• Anastasia Myskina (add more images, deal with tags)

Video games

Expansion needed

• Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul
• Allods Online
• Alawar Entertainment [4]

Volleyball

Expansion needed

• Russia men's national volleyball team
• Russia women's national volleyball team
• Lioubov Sokolova
• Vyacheslav Zaytsev
• 1952 FIVB Men's World Championship

Attention needed

• VC Zenit-Kazan

Weightlifting

Expansion needed

• Kettlebell
• Vasily Alekseyev
• Yury Vlasov
• Leonid Zhabotinsky
• Tatiana Kashirina [5]

Wrestling

Expansion needed

• Ivan Poddubny
• Aleksandr Medved
• Aleksandr Karelin
• Victor Zangiev (add image)
• Buvaisar Saitiev

Attention needed

• List of World Championships medalists in wrestling (freestyle) (add images)
• Andrej Shumilin

Other sports

Expansion needed

• Russia national baseball team
• Russia national korfball team
• Russia national rugby union team (sevens)
• Russia national cricket team
• Russia women's national rugby union team
• Russia national badminton team
• Alexey Voyevoda
• Russian Orienteering Federation
• Russia national futsal team
• Russian pyramid
• Eugene Andreev (consider move)

Attention needed

• Russian Yoga Federation (de-orphan)

Stadiums

Expansion needed

• Luzhniki Stadium (expand, add more images)
• Luzhniki Palace of Sports
• Ice Palace Saint Petersburg
• Dynamo Stadium (Makhachkala)
• Khazar Stadium
• Petrovsky Stadium
• Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex
• Baltika Stadium
• Central Stadium (Astrakhan)
• Central Stadium (Kazan)
• Central Stadium (Krasnoyarsk)
• Khimik Stadium
• Kuznetsk Metallurgists Sports Palace
• Lenin Stadium (Khabarovsk)
• Lokomotiv Stadium (Chita)
• Lokomotiv Stadium (Saratov)
• Neftekhimik Ice Palace
• Olympic Pool, Moscow
• Sochi Central Stadium
• Soviet Wings Sport Palace
• Spartak Stadium (Novosibirsk)
• Torpedo Stadium (Togliatti)
• Trudovye Rezervy Stadium
• Tsentralnyi Profsoyuz Stadion (Voronezh)
• Uralmash Stadium
• Uvays Akhtayev Stadium
• Yunost Sport Palace

Attention needed

• Luzhniki Disaster (check referencing, provide citations)  Done
• Basket-Hall Arena
• Central Stadium (Oryol) (deal with tags)

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Books

Articles for deletion

• 17 Apr 2024 – Ekaterina Zaikina ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Bgsu98 ( t ·  c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 27 Apr 2024 – Konstantin Gavrin ( talk ·   ·  hist) was PRODed by Bgsu98 ( t ·  c): concern
• 26 Apr 2024 – Artem Kudashev ( talk ·   ·  hist) was PRODed by Bgsu98 ( t ·  c): concern
• 25 Apr 2024 – Ivan Blagov ( talk ·   ·  hist) was PRODed by Bgsu98 ( t ·  c): concern
• 24 Apr 2024 – Lilia Biktagirova ( talk ·   ·  hist) was PRODed by Bgsu98 ( t ·  c): concern
• 24 Apr 2024 – Marina Antipova ( talk ·   ·  hist) was PRODed by Bgsu98 ( t ·  c): concern
• 22 Apr 2024 – Gleb Lutfullin ( talk ·   ·  hist) was PRODed by Bgsu98 ( t ·  c): concern
• 27 Apr 2024 – Daniil Gleikhengauz ( talk ·   ·  hist) PRODed by Bgsu98 ( t ·  c) was deproded by Bgsu98 ( t ·  c) on 28 Apr 2024
• 15 Apr 2024 – N. Koppelman ( talk ·   ·  hist) PRODed by Alecs ( t ·  c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

• 01 Mar 2024 – Category:Indoor ice hockey venues in Russia ( talk ·   ·  hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 ( t ·  c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 14 Mar 2024 – Yulia Lipnitskaya ( talk ·   ·  hist) was GA nominated by Riley1012 ( t ·  c); start discussion