Dynamo Sports Club

Dynamo or Dinamo (Russian: Динамо, romanized: Dinamo; Ukrainian: Динамо, romanized: Dynamo; Belarusian: Дынама, romanized: Dynama; Georgian: დინამო, romanized: dinamo) is a Russian public sports and fitness society with its central headquarters in Moscow. It was created in 1923 in the Soviet Union and later spread to other cities across the Soviet Union, within each union republic. The society is an association of multi-sport clubs in various cities with athletes drawn from the NKVD and, after World War II, the MVD and the KGB. With the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe after World War II, similar Dynamo societies were established throughout the Eastern Bloc, such as SV Dynamo (East Germany).

In 1960, the All-Russian sports and fitness society Dynamo was established and operated on the territory of the Russian SFSR, within the Soviet Union. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Dynamo central office merged into the All-Russian sports and fitness society Dynamo, while the Dynamo offices of other union republics, which became independent, began functioning as foreign organizations.