Editor-in-Chief B.M. Chesnokov. General Editorial N.A. Semashko. Moscow - Leningrad State Publishing House. 1928. VI+1000+12ss.:Illustrations Solid binding, enlarged format. The encyclopedia is compiled by an outstanding Russian athlete, footballer, striker, champion of Moscow 1915 and 1917. Chesnokov B.M. (1891-1979).The book reflects the mass development of the sports and physical culture movement in the first decades of Soviet power. The dictionary concentrates all the information available at that time about the various sports popular in Europe and North America, their history, equipment and shells, about the human body, its health and ways of recovery with the help of physical education. Sport is considered in the broadest sense. The book includes information about sports hunting and fishing, shooting a gun, sailing, skiing, wrestling, etc. Many sports appeared and began to develop in the late XIX - early XX centuries. and in the encyclopedic dictionary for the first time provides information on their history in a concentrated form. In addition, since the beginning of the XX century, the Olympic movement is being revived.