Published under the permission of the author – Alexey Lazarev. About the author: Alexey Lazarev is 11-time Russian champion, 2-time European champion.
Alexey Lazarev
Perhaps, the first literary mentioning about Go in Russia appeared in
the beginning of the XX-th century (1902 – Encyclopaedia edited by F.
Brockhaus and I. Efron). Go was named “oblavnie shashki” (battue
draughts) then. In 1914 an unknown author published a brochure with the
game rules description. From that time and until the early sixties
nobody noticed any significant mentions about Go activity in Russia.
In 1962 Postnikov M.M. – a Russian Academician and some others
mathematicians from Moscow published an article about Go in the journal
“Yuniy technik” (“Young technician” in English). This journal was
extremely popular among senior schoolchildren. However we can state that
the real birth of Go in Russia happened in 1965. At that very time a Go
enthusiast Youriy Filatov created the first Go club in Leningrad (the
old name of Saint-Petersburg). The Go club was under patronage of the
Central Leningrad Chess Club. There were quite favorable conditions for
Go promotion then. A year later the number of Go circles and Go clubs in
Leningrad increased immensely. Many big Go tournaments were organized.
Few hundreds of participants took part in some of them. The results of
Go activities were so great that it made impossible for local
authorities to ignore it. In 1968 Leningrad Sport Committee even planned
to support some of Go events.
read more : http://rusgo.org/history/
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