Lokomotiv (Russian: Локомотив; English: Locomotive) or Lokomotiv Voluntary Sports Society (VSS) is the Russian sports club and a member of the International Railway Sports Association. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, VSS Lokomotiv consisted of many clubs in a variety of sports which were all named "Lokomotiv" with an addition of the town/city name from which the club was from (f.e. Lokomotiv Moscow). In the Eastern Bloc countries many teams associated with the railway industry (but not part of VSS Lokomotiv) were also named or renamed "Lokomotiv".
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Sport clubs of the Lokomotiv society
FC Lokomotiv Moscow
RC Lokomotiv Moscow
FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod
Lokomotiv Orenburg
Lokomotiv Penza
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
PBC Lokomotiv Kuban
FC Lokomotyv Kyiv
FC Lokomotyv Kharkiv
FC Lokomotyv Poltava
FC Lokomotivi Tbilisi
Jõhvi FC Lokomotiv
Notable members
Vera Krepkina (athletics)
Nikolay Sokolov (athletics)
Boris Spassky (chess)
Radia Yeroshina (cross-country skiing)
Viatcheslav Ekimov (cycling)
Ludmila Belousova (figure skating)
Oleg Protopopov (figure skating)
Lidia Skoblikova (speed skating)
Vladimir Bure (swimming)
Yurik Vardanyan (weightlifting)