this year marks the 40th anniversary of the Olympic games in 1980. To date International news Agency and radio Sputnik launched a new special project “Moscow-80: Retro tube”. This multimedia product is the result of 13 editions of Sputnik in the former Soviet Union and the Moscow office. It is about the summer Olympics will tell stories and details of everyday life of inhabitants of the Soviet Union in 1980.
How much the government spent on the Moscow Olympic games? What to buy on their fees Soviet medalists? How to ensure the safety? Could religious athletes to pray in the atheistic Soviet Union? All of this can be found through the special project “Moscow-80: a Retro-tube”.
Commenting on the launch of the project, the Deputy chief editor MIA “Russia today” Andrew Blagodarensk said: “This project is not only about sport, and not so much about the sport. This is a project about that era, about the people, the atmosphere, in which lived a large country, about how preparing for one of the major events of the decade, the former Soviet republics. Someone we will recall how it was, and someone will explain how people lived in 1980. In the project we use all possible formats: the stories of witnesses and participants of the Olympic games, athletes, officials, unique archival photos and film footage, including from personal archives of our heroes. Will interactive infographics – a journey through Olympic Moscow. And, of course, the main feature of the project is the series “Moscow-80: a Retro-tube” leading to each series of which became known bloggers and journalists.”
“Moscow-80: a Retro-tube” – a multi-faceted project. Based mini-series, which became the leading famous bloggers and celebrities: Tina Kandelaki Dmitry Puchkov (Goblin), Dmitry Guberniev, trevel-blogger Michael “to Go” Ronkainen. Videos, lyrics, interviews, infographics will be published on the dedicated project page on 13 sites Sputnik, the Sputnik Russian page in YouTube, telegram channels Sputnik and the official accounts in social networks.
In a release about the new project said that in the process of preparing materials Sputnik journalists sought details related to the Olympics that allow you to look at this period in the history of the USSR with an unexpected, unofficial perspective. According to the authors of the project managed to find a lot of interesting details: for example, it tries to steal the Olympic torch in Minsk, which broke the police, or the story about why the delegation of the DPRK staged a people’s trial of one of the team members.
Part of the special project devoted to the participation of the Soviet republics in the preparation and holding of the Olympic games-80. It’s not only about athletes from different SSR, who won medals at the games, but also about the training bases located throughout the Soviet Union. From the republics to Moscow and other cities of the Olympic games – Minsk, Leningrad and Tallinn – went withStroymaterialy and products. From across the country to the capital, seconded police officers, translators, the best waiters and cooks, and musical groups. At each site Sputnik will be your content.
