[1] Larisa Latynina is also the most decorated female athlete at the Olympic games with a total of 18 medals.

[2] Soviet dominance was unprecedented in scale and longevity and was likely the result of the country's heavy investment in mass and elite sports to fulfill its political agenda.

[3] The Soviet Union won the team gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics – the first Olympics that the Soviet Union participated in, and they won the team gold for the next seven games.

This list does include medals won as the Unified Team at the Olympics and the Commonwealth of Independent States in 1992 but does not includes medals won under the flag of an independent nation after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Also not included are medals won at the 1984 Friendship Games (alternative Olympics).