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'''Dynamo Alma-Ata''' ({{lang-ru|Динамо Алма-Ата}}) was a multi-sports club from the then capital of [[Kazakhstan]], [[Almaty]] in the Soviet era. The club participated in wrestling, gymnastics, athletics, water polo, bandy and the most successful branch hockey. Several players combined bandy in the winter with hockey in the summer.

== Notables ==
Well-known members included the competitive artistic gymnast [[Valeri Liukin]], the pole vaulter [[Grigoriy Yegorov]], as well as the wrestlers [[Anatoly Nazarenko]], [[Shamil Serikov]] and [[Anatoly Bykov]]. The co-founder of [[FC Spartak Moscow]], [[Nikolai Starostin]], coached both the football and hockey teams during his exile in [[Alma-Ata]].

== Sports ==
===Water polo===
The water polo men's team won [[Soviet Water Polo Championship|Soviet Water Polo Championships]] in 1981 and 1982. In the 1982-83 season Dynamo's water polo team reached the [[LEN Champions League|European Champions cup]] final. Dynamo played a double final against [[Wasserfreunde Spandau 04|Spandau 04]] but after a 10:7 win in the first leg, the Soviet team lost the title, defeated by West Germany in the second leg with a 6:10 score.

===Bandy===
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In 1977 and in 1990, the club became [[List of Russian bandy champions|Soviet national champions]] in [[bandy]] and in 1978 won the [[European Cup (bandy)|European Cup]].

===Hockey===
The team became Soviet champions eighteen times.

== References ==
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[[Category:Sport in Almaty]]
[[Category:Water polo clubs]]
[[Category:Dynamo sports society]]
[[Category:Water polo in Russia]]


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