FC Dynamo Kharkiv

[3] After establishing of the Soviet regime, the property was confiscated and turned the garden into an athletic zone with volleyball and handball courts, gymnastic village, a pit for jumps, running track, showers.

[2] The Dynamo's first football and handball teams debuted in city competitions in 1925, but consisted exclusively out of members of law enforcement only.

[2] On 26 April 1926 at the GPU club took place a board elections of the first in Ukraine and capital at that time Kharkiv proletarian sports society "Dynamo".

[2] However, constituent documents of the sports society and its statute were finally confirmed by the chairman of GPU Vsevolod Balitsky only in October of the same year.

[2] In the neighboring Russian SFSR, where Dynamo was established earlier in 1923, the great boost in its development provided the newly acquired famous footballers.

Following World War II, the club has never resumed its operations as the city was able only to afford one team, FC Lokomotyv Kharkiv.

Mykola Krotov in 1941
Ivan Privalov in 1923