Original vintage Soviet sport poster for Sambo wrestling featuring a light blue and white wrestling illustration of two sportsmen in uniform fighting on the ground, one of them holding his opponent on the floor, on the lower half of the poster with text in Russian reading Sambo. Sambo - SAMozashchita Bez Oruzhiya / aka Sombo - is a Russian martial art sport similar to judo that was developed by the Soviet Red Army in the 1920s as a self defence sport without the use of weapons; in 1938 it was accepted as an official combat sport by the USSR Committee of Sport and, in 1968, it was accepted as a form of wrestling by the United World Wrestling governing body (FILA International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles / Federation Internationale des Luttes Associees), the only internationally recognised sport with Russian as its official language. Very good condition, folded. Country of issue: Russia, designer: V. Filipov, size (cm): 91x62.5, year of printing: 1970.