# Soviet Union at the 1956 Winter Olympics

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Nikolay Anikin, Pavel Kolchin Vladimir Kuzin, Fyodor Terentyev | Cross-country | Men's relay 4 x 10 km |
| Gold | Lyubov Kozyreva | Cross-country | Women's 10 km |
| Gold | Yevgeny Babich, Vsevolod Bobrov Alexei Guryshev, Nikolay Khlystov Yuri Krylov, Alfred Kuchevsky Valentin Kuzin, Grigory Mkrtychan Viktor Nikiforov, Yuri Pantyukhov Nikolai Puchkov, Viktor Shuvalov Genrikh Sidorenkov, Nikolai Sologubov Ivan Tregubov, Dmitry Ukolov Aleksandr Uvarov | Ice hockey | Men's team |
| Gold | Yevgeny Grishin | Speed skating | Men's 500 m |
| Gold | Yevgeny Grishin | Speed skating | Men's 1500 m |
| Gold | Yuri Mikhaylov | Speed skating | Men's 1500 m |
| Gold | Boris Shilkov | Speed skating | Men's 5000 m |
| Silver | Radya Yeroshina | Cross-country | Women's 10 km |
| Silver | Alevtina Kolchina, Lyubov Kozyreva Radya Yeroshina | Cross-country | Women's relay 3 x 5 km |
| Silver | Rafayel Grach | Speed skating | Men's 500 m |
| Bronze | Yevgeniya Sidorova | Alpine skiing | Women's slalom |
| Bronze | Pavel Kolchin | Cross-country | Men's 15 km |
| Bronze | Pavel Kolchin | Cross-country | Men's 30 km |
| Bronze | Fyodor Terentyev | Cross-country | Men's 50 km |
| Bronze | Oleg Goncharenko | Speed skating | Men's 5000 m |
| Bronze | Oleg Goncharenko | Speed skating | Men's 10000 m |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Rank |
| Gennady Chertishchev | Giant slalom | | | 3:48.9 | 55 |
| Gennady Chertishchev | Downhill | | | DSQ | DNF |
| Aleksandr Filatov | Giant slalom | | | 3:27.8 | 33 |
| Aleksandr Filatov | Slalom | 1:33.5 | 2:36.0 | 4:09.5 | 30 |
| Aleksandr Filatov | Downhill | | | 3:16.6 | 16 |
| Vyacheslav Melnikov | Slalom | TNK | DSQ | did not finish | did not finish |
| Yury Sharkov | Giant slalom | | | 3:41.8 | 46 |
| Yury Sharkov | Slalom | DSQ | | did not finish | did not finish |
| Sergey Shustov | Downhill | | | DSQ | DNF |
| Viktor Talyanov | Giant slalom | | | 3:45.2 | 52 |
| Viktor Talyanov | Slalom | 1:49.2 | 2:06.9 | 3:56.1 | 24 |
| Viktor Talyanov | Downhill | | | 3:26.5 | 21 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Rank |
| Aleksandra Artyomenko | Giant slalom | | | 4:04.5 | 44 |
| Aleksandra Artyomenko | Slalom | DSQ | | did not finish | did not finish |
| Aleksandra Artyomenko | Downhill | | | 1:51.1 | 14 |
| Yevgeniya Sidorova | Giant slalom | | | 2:31.3 | 40 |
| Yevgeniya Sidorova | Slalom | 56.9 | 59.8 | 1:56.7 | |
| Yevgeniya Sidorova | Downhill | | | 1:59.8 | 37 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Total | Rank |
| Nikolay Anikin | 15 km | 50:58 | 7 |
| Viktor Baranov | 50 km | 3:03:55 | 7 |
| Minnevali Galiyev | 15 km | 52:49 | 18 |
| Pavel Kolchin | 15 km | 50:17 | |
| Pavel Kolchin | 30 km | 1:45:45 | |
| Pavel Kolchin | 50 km | 2:58:00 | 6 |
| Vladimir Kuzin | 15 km | 51:36 | 10 |
| Vladimir Kuzin | 30 km | 1:46:09 | 5 |
| Anatoly Shelyukhin | 30 km | 1:45:46 | 4 |
| Anatoly Shelyukhin | 50 km | 2:56:40 | 5 |
| Fyodor Terentyev | 30 km | 1:46:43 | 6 |
| Fyodor Terentyev | 50 km | 2:53:32 | |
| Fyodor Terentyev Pavel Kolchin Nikolay Anikin Vladimir Kuzin | Relay 4 x 10 km | 2:15:30 | |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Total | Rank |
| Anna Kaaleste | 10 km | 40:29 | 9 |
| Alevtina Kolchina | 10 km | 38:46 | 4 |
| Lyubov Kozyreva | 10 km | 38:11 | |
| Radya Yeroshina | 10 km | 38:16 | |
| Lyubov Kozyreva Alevtina Kolchina Radya Yeroshina | Relay 3 x 5 km | 1:09:28 | |

## Ice hockey
### Men

* Head coach: Arkady Chernyshev
| Pos. | Player |
| GK | Nikolai Puchkov |
| GK | Grigory Mkrtychan |
| D | Nikolai Sologubov |
| D | Dmitry Ukolov |
| D | Ivan Tregubov |
| D | Genrikh Sidorenkov |
| D | Alfred Kuchevsky |
| F | Yevgeny Babich |
| F | Viktor Shuvalov |
| F | Vsevolod Bobrov |
| F | Yuri Krylov |
| F | Aleksandr Uvarov |
| F | Valentin Kuzin |
| F | Yuri Pantyukhov |
| F | Alexei Guryshev |
| F | Nikolay Khlystov |
| F | Viktor Nikiforov |

   ### Preliminary round

| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |
| Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 4 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 0 |
| Babich (2) Bobrov Kuzin (2) | Goals | Björn |
| Ukolov Tregubov Bobrov (4) Krylov Guryshev (2) Peter (own goal) | Goals | Naef (2) Bagnoud |

   ### Final round

| Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS |
| Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 5 | 10 |
| United States | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 8 |
| Canada | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 6 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 3 |
| Czechoslovakia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 30 | 2 |
| Germany | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 35 | 1 |
| Shuvalov Bobrov Guryshev (2) | Goals | Bröms |
| Tregubov Shuvalov Bobrov Krylov Uvarov (2) Guryshev (2) | Goals |
| Sologubov Shuvalov (3) Bobrov Pantyukhov Guryshev | Goals | Gut Bubník Návrat Pantucek |
| Bobrov Kuzin Pantyukhov Khlystov | Goals |
| Krylov Kuzin | Goals |

## Nordic combined

| Athlete | Event | Ski jumping | Ski jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Leonid Fyodorov | Individual 15 km | 201.0 | 12 | 59:17 | 228.500 | 12 | 429.500 | 10 |
| Nikolay Gusakov | Individual 15 km | 200.0 | 14 | 58:17 | 232.300 | 8 | 432.300 | 7 |
| Uno Kajak | Individual 15 km | 186.5 | 27 | 1:00:48 | 222.600 | 18 | 409.100 | 26 |
| Yury Moshkin | Individual 15 km | 217.5 | 1 | 1:04:18 | 209.100 | 31 | 426.600 | 13 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | First round | First round | Final | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Total | Rank |
| Yury Moshkin | Normal hill | 91.5 | 35 | 92.5 | 184.0 | 34 |
| Nikolay Shamov | Normal hill | 103.0 | 14 | 98.0 | 201.0 | 16 |
| Koba Zakadze | Normal hill | 107.0 | 8 | 78.0 | 185.0 | 30 |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Oleg Goncharenko | 5000 m | 7:57.5 | |
| Oleg Goncharenko | 10000 m | 16:42.3 | |
| Rafayel Grach | 500 m | 40.8 | |
| Yevgeny Grishin | 500 m | 40.2 WR | |
| Yevgeny Grishin | 1500 m | 2:08.6 WR | |
| Robert Merkulov | 1500 m | 2:10.3 | 5 |
| Yuri Mikhaylov | 500 m | did not finish | did not finish |
| Yuri Mikhaylov | 1500 m | 2:08.6 WR | |
| Dmitry Sakunenko | 5000 m | 8:10.5 | 16 |
| Yuri Sergeev | 500 m | 41.1 | 4 |
| Boris Shilkov | 1500 m | 2:11.9 | 8 |
| Boris Shilkov | 5000 m | 7:48.7 OR | |
| Vladimir Shilykovsky | 10000 m | 17:17.6 | 16 |
| Boris Tsybin | 10000 m | 17:03.4 | 9 |
| Boris Yakimov | 5000 m | 8:12.6 | 19 |
| Boris Yakimov | 10000 m | 16:59.7 | 7 |

## Medals by republic

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russian SFSR | 26 | 5 | 4 | 35 |
| 2 | Ukrainian SSR | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (2 entries) | Totals (2 entries) | 26 | 5 | 6 | 37 |