A major book about Soviet sports is the wonderfully insightful: Robert Edelman, Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). Edelman builds on a couple of classic works in the field of Soviet studies: Henry Morton, Soviet Sports: Mirror of Soviet Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963); James Riordan, Sports in Soviet Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977); Jame Riordan, Soviet Sport Background to the Olympics (New York: Washington Mews Books, 1980). Victor Peppard and James Riordan, Playing Politics: Soviet Sports Diplomacy to 1992 (London: JAI Press, 1993).

Web sites that contain Soviet Sports information include:

On the famous Spartak soccer team:
www.geocities.com/Colosseum/7326/index.html

A more general site, but largely in Russian is:
www.football.ru/

Some basic information on Russian gymnastics can be found at:
www.geocities.com/Colosseum/1264/

There is also some interesting current and background information at a site dedicated to the promotion of gymnastics in Russia and Ukraine:
www.olympic-eurogym.demon.nl/

Information on daily sports matches often can be found on the sports section of:
www.russiatoday.com/

Or, through the guides on:
www.glasnet.ru

 Other commercial works are varying in quality:

Yuri Brokhin, The Big Red Machine: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Olympic Champions (New York: 1978); Victor and Jennifer Louis, Sport in the Soviet Union (New York: Pergamon Press, 1980); Baruch Hazan, Olympic Sports and Propaganda Games: Moscow 1980 (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1982)

Grigori Raiport with Monique Raphael High, Red Gold: Peak Performance Techniques of Russian and East German Olympic Victors (Los Angles, J.P.Tarcher Inc. 1988); Simon Freeman and Roger Boyes, Sport Behind the Iron Curtain (New York: Lippincott & Crowell, 1980). Yuri G. Khromov and Russell W. Ramsey, Ten Soviet Sports Stars (Boston: Branden, 1990).

Among interesting specialized works are:

Lawrence Martin, The Red Machine:The Soviet Quest to Dominate Canada's Game (Toronto, 1990). Paavo Seppanen, The Role of Sport in the Soviet Type Society (Helsinki: University of Helsinki Department of Sociology, 1984); N. Norman Shneidman, The Soviet Road to Olympus: Theory and Practice of Soviet Physicculture and Sport (Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1978); David J. Foley and Bill Evans, Physical Training of the Soviet Soldier

[Prepared for the Soviet/Warsaw Pact Division, Directorate for Foreign Intelligence] (Washington: Defense Intelligence Agency, 1978); Michael Yessis with Richard Trubo, Secrets of Soviet Sports Fitness and Training (New York: Arbor House, 1987); Norman MacLean and Barry Wilner with Earl Hoener, Soviet Sports Exercise Program: The Gold Medal Guide to Physical Fitness (New York: Drake Publishers, 1977). Olga Korbut with Ellen Emerson-White, My Story: The Autobiography of Olga Korbut (London: Century Publishers, 1992).

An example of a local level women's sport's club, from the city of Barnaul, Russia is:

tbs.dcn-asu.ru/commu/