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Soviet Union at the Spartakiad USSR

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All-time haul

39 medals

13 gold 13 silver 13 bronze

Relays count once.

On the podium

6 of 10 editions since 1956

First medal

1959 Moscow · Yelizaveta Yermolayeva, cross country gold

First gold

1959 Moscow · Aleksandr Artinyuk, cross country

Best edition

Kiev 1991 9 medals, 3 of them gold

All-time table

4th of 28 nations, ranked by golds

Every edition, 1956–1991

One dot per medal · empty column = no medal · click a year

Edition by edition

YearEditionMedalsGSBTotalMedallists
1991Kiev 10th edition3339
1986Tashkent 9th editionNo medal––––
1983Moscow 8th editionNo medal––––
1979Moscow 7th editionNo medal––––
1975Moscow 6th edition2226
1971Moscow 5th edition2226
1967Moscow 4th edition2226
1963Moscow 3rd edition2226
1959Moscow 2nd edition2226
1956Moscow 1st editionNo medal––––
Total6 of 10 editions on the podium13131339
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