On April 28, a stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Central Army Sports Club (CSKA) was put into postal circulation

April 29 of 1923 is considered the official birthday of the Central Army Sports Club. On that day, the first sports festival was held: a football match between military athletes for the championship of the capital. Moscovites for the first time saw a team with the sports emblem of OPPV - an Experimental and Demonstrative (military and sports) field of Vseobuch. It was formed under the Central Department of military training of working people on the basis of the pre-revolutionary Society of Skiing Amateurs, was located in the Sokolniki Park in Moscow and became the first central sports organization of the Red Army.

On the OPPV basis, the sports were pursued that were valuable in the military-applied aspect: track and field athletics, weightlifting, football, basketball, gymnastics, boxing, shooting and skiing sports, as well as ball hockey.

The CSKA is the leading sports club in Russia. It incorporates six regional branches in St. Petersburg, Samara, Sevastopol, Smolensk, Rostov-on-Don and Khabarovsk, as well as 19 sports centers and 37 children's sports schools and departments. In total, more than 10,000 athletes do sport in the Army Club under the guidance of 549 coach-instructors.

Today, CSKA fosters 65 sports (42 Olympic, 18 non-Olympic and 5 military-applied disciplines) and 29 sports that enter into the competition program of the International Council of Military Sports, providing training at 171 sports facilities virtually all over Russia - from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, and from Severomorsk to Sevastopol.

The postage stamp provides an image of the logo of celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Central Army Sports Club.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Penza.


Design Artist: R. Komsa.
Face value: 30 rubles.
Stamp size: 37×37 mm, sheet size: 131×137 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with 9 (3×3) stamps.
Quantity: 135 thousand stamps (15 thousand sheets).

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