Varpa
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Varpa
(The Ear), a rural sports society in the Latvian SSR established in 1956. In 1970 the society included about 1,350 physical culture groups (more than 80,000 athletes). It has access to 80 stadiums and soccer fields and 650 playing fields. Sixty-eight masters of sport and 1,800 candidate masters belong to the society.
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