While the permanent exhibition of the Sambo Museum is not open, it functions as a center for research and study of the rich history of our sport.
The main activities of the Museum are:
1. Search and research projects
2. Educational and awareness-raising programs (introduction to the history of sambo)
3. Sociocultural projects aimed at the integration of sambo in various spheres of society (from fashion to ecology)
Today, the Museum’s collections include several hundred truly unique exhibits that tell the history of sambo. These include personal belongings of famous sambo fighters, uniforms, posters, programs, prizes, sports equipment and of course numerous photographs.
Some of them were found through painstaking historical research, while others were donated to the Museum by athletes, coaches and friends of sambo from all over the world.
In order to introduce these unique finds to a large audience of sambo, it was decided to create the “Sambo Museum Catalog”.
The catalog is being published on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of sambo. It will feature the most interesting exhibits of the Museum with stories, comments, curious historical details, accompanying scientific articles and of course information about the people who handed over these valuable exhibits to the Museum.
We are grateful to everyone who responded to our call and became a participant in this unique project to preserve the history of sambo.
The work continues and we ask everyone to join it. Please review your personal home archives. Surely, they contain something that can become an artifact in the large Sambo Museum. It is important, valuable and interesting to the multimillion-strong followers of sambo enthusiasts.
The Sambo Museum team.
Photo: exhibit of the Sambo Museum — jacket of Evgeny Chumakov. Donated to the Sambo Museum in 2025. From the personal collection of Stanislav Fedorovich Ionov, honored coach of Russia.
