The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. 272 competitors, 233 men and 39 women, took part in 135 events in 17 sports.
The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 37 gold and a total of 98 medals.
Valentin Muratov — Artistic gymnastics, men's floor exercise
Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise
Victor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's individual all-round
Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-round
Victor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's parallel bars
Boris Shakhlin — Artistic gymnastics, men's pommel horse
Albert Azaryan — Artistic gymnastics, men's rings
Victor Chukarin, Valentin Muratov, Boris Shakhlin, Albert Azaryan, Yuri Titov, Pavel Stolbov — Artistic gymnastics, men's team competition
Tamara Manina, Larisa Latynina, Sofia Muratova, Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova, Polina Astakhova, Lyudmila Egorova — Artistic gymnastics, women's team competition
Valentin Muratov — Artistic gymnastics, men's vault
Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's vault
Vladimir Kuts — Athletics, men's 10000 m
Leonid Spirin — Athletics, men's 20 km walk
Vladimir Kuts — Athletics, men's 5000 m
Inese Jaunzeme — Athletics, women's javelin throw
Tamara Tyshkevich — Athletics, women's shot put
Vladimir Safronov — Boxing, men's featherweight
Vladimir Yengibaryan — Boxing, men's light-welterweight
Gennadi Shatkov — Boxing, men's 71–75 kg
Pavel Kharin, Gratsian Botev — Canoeing, men's C-2 10000 m
Elizaveta Dementyeva — Canoeing, women's K-1 500 m
Lev Yashin, Nikolai Tishchenko, Mikhail Okonkov, Aleksei Paramonov, Anatoli Bashashkin, Igor Netto, Boris Tatushin, Anatoli Isayev, Eduard Streltsov, Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Vladimir Ryzhkin, Boris Kuznetsov, Iosif Betsa, Sergei Salnikov, Boris Razinsky, Anatoli Maslenkin, Anatoli Ilyin and Nikita Simonyan — Football (soccer), men's team competition
Igor Novikov, Ivan Deryugin, Aleksandr Tarasov — Modern pentathlon, men's team competition
Aleksandr Berkutov, Yury Tyukalov — Rowing, men's double sculls
Vyacheslav Ivanov — Rowing, men's single sculls
Vitali Romanenko — Shooting, men's 100 m running deer, single/double shots
Vasili Borisov — Shooting, men's 300 m free rifle 3 positions
Anatoli Bogdanov — Shooting, men's 50 m rifle 3 positions
Igor Rybak — Weightlifting, men's lightweight
Fedor Bogdanovsky — Weightlifting, men's middleweight
Arkady Vorobyov — Weightlifting, men's middle-heavyweight
Mirian Tsalkalamanidze — Wrestling, men's freestyle flyweight
Anatoli Parfenov — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman super-heavyweight
Nikolai Soloviev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman flyweight
Konstantin Vyrupaev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman bantamweight
Givi Kartoziya — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman middleweight
Valentin Nikolayev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman light-heavyweight
Tamara Manina — Artistic gymnastics, women's balance beam
Victor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's floor exercise
Yuri Titov — Artistic gymnastics, men's horizontal bar
Valentin Muratov — Artistic gymnastics, men's rings
Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven bars
Tamara Manina — Artistic gymnastics, women's vault
Antanas Mikenas — Athletics, men's 20 km walk
Leonid Bartenev, Yuriy Konovalov, Vladimir Sukharev, Boris Tokarev — Athletics, men's 4 × 100 m relay
Yevgeniy Maskinskov — Athletics, men's 50 km walk
Irina Beglyakova — Athletics, women's discus throw
Mikhail Krivonosov — Athletics, men's hammer throw
Mariya Pisareva — Athletics, women's high jump
Galina Zybina — Athletics, women's shot put
Valdis Muizhniek, Maigonis Valdmanis, Vladimir Torban, Stasys Stonkus, Kazys Petkevičius, Arkadi Bochkarev, Jānis Krūmiņš, Mikhail Semyonov, Algirdas Lauritenas, Yuri Ozerov, Viktor Zubkov, Mikhail Studenetsky — Basketball, men's team competition
Lev Mukhin — Boxing, men's heavyweight
Pavel Kharin, Gratsian Botev — Canoeing, men's C-2 1000 m
Igor Pissarev — Canoeing, men's K-1 1000 m
Mikhail Kaaleste, Anatoli Demitkov — Canoeing, men's K-2 1000 m
Igor Buldakov, Viktor Ivanov — Rowing, men's coxless pair
Yevgeni Cherkasov — Shooting, men's 25 m rapid fire pistol
Allan Erdman — Shooting, men's 300 m free rifle 3 positions
Makhmud Umarov — Shooting, men's 50 m pistol
Vasili Borisov — Shooting, men's 50 m rifle prone
Vladimir Stogov — Weightlifting, men's bantamweight
Yevgeni Minaev — Weightlifting, men's featherweight
Ravil Khabutdinov — Weightlifting, men's lightweight
Vasili Stepanov — Weightlifting, men's light-heavyweight
Boris Kulayev — Wrestling, men's freestyle light-heavyweight
Vladimir Maneev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman welterweight
Yuri Titov — Artistic gymnastics, men's individual all-round
Sofia Muratova — Artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-round
Victor Chukarin — Artistic gymnastics, men's pommel horse
Tamara Manina, Larisa Latynina, Sofia Muratova, Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova, Polina Astakhova, Lyudmila Egorova — Artistic gymnastics, women's team, portable apparatus
Sofia Muratova — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven bars
Yuri Titov — Artistic gymnastics, men's vault
Bruno Junk — Athletics, men's 20 km walk
Ardalion Ignatyev — Athletics, men's 400 m
Vasili Kuznetsov — Athletics, men's decathlon
Nina Romashkova — Athletics, women's discus throw
Anatoli Samotsvetov — Athletics, men's hammer throw
Igor Kashkarov — Athletics, men's high jump
Viktor Tsybulenko — Athletics, men's javelin throw
Nadezhda Konyaeva — Athletics, women's javelin throw
Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili — Athletics, women's long jump
Vitold Kreer — Athletics, men's triple jump
Anatoli Lagetko — Boxing, men's lightweight
Romualdas Murauskas — Boxing, men's light-heavyweight
Gennady Bukharin — Canoeing, men's C-1 10000 m
Gennady Bukharin — Canoeing, men's C-1 1000 m
Lev Kuznetsov — Fencing, men's sabre individual
Yakov Rylsky, David Tyshler, Lev Kuznetsov, Yevgeni Cherepovsky, Leonid Bogdanov — Fencing, men's sabre team
Igor Emchuk, Georgi Zhilin, Vladimir Petrov — Rowing, men's pair-oared shell with coxswain
Vladimir Sevryugin — Shooting, men's 100 m running deer, single/double shots
Kharis Yunichev — Swimming, men's 200 m breaststroke
Vitali Sorokin, Vladimir Struzhanov, Gennadi Nikolaev, Boris Nikitin — Swimming, men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
Boris Goikhman, Valentin Prokopov, Yuri Shlyapin, Vyacheslav Kurennoi, Pyotr Breus, Pyotr Mshvenieradze, Boris Markarov, Mikhail Ryzhak, Viktor Ageev and Nodar Gvakhariya — Water polo, men's team competition
Mikhail Shakhov — Wrestling, men's freestyle bantamweight
Alimbeg Bestaev — Wrestling, men's freestyle lightweight
Vakhtang Balavadze — Wrestling, men's freestyle welterweight
Georgi Skhirtladze — Wrestling, men's freestyle middleweight
Roman Dzeneladze — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman featherweight
Men's 110 m hurdles
Boris Stolyarov
Heat — 14.4s
Semifinals — 14.5s
Final — 14.6s (→ 6th place)
Anatoly Mikhailov
Heat — 14.5s (→ did not advance)
Men's marathon
Ivan Filine — 2:30:37 (→ 7th place)
Boris Grichaev — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Albert Ivanov — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Sprint
Boris Romanov — 7th place
Time trial
Boris Savostin — 1:12.3 (→ 5th place)
Tandem
Rostislav Vargashkin
Vladimir Leonov — 9th place
Team pursuit
Eduard Gusev
Rodislav Chizhikov
Viktor Ilyin
Vladimir Mitin — 8th place
Team road race
Anatoly Cherepovich
Mykola Kolumbet
Viktor Kapitonov — 63 points (→ 6th place)
Individual road race
Anatoly Cherepovich — 5:23:50 (→ 15th place)
Mykola Kolumbet — 5:23:50 (→ 16th place)
Viktor Kapitonov — 5:30:45 (→ 32nd place)
Viktor Vershinin — 5:34:21 (→ 35th place)
Men's 10 m platform
Roman Brener
Preliminary Round — 76.56
Final — 142.95 (→ 5th place)
Mikhail Chachba
Preliminary Round — 73.02
Final — 134.52 (→ 8th place)
Gennady Galkin
Preliminary Round — 68.92 (→ did not advance, 13th place)
Women's 10 m platform
Tatyana Karakashyants-Vereina
Preliminary Round — 52.19
Final — 76.95 (→ 9th place)
Lyubov Shigalova
Preliminary Round — 49.22
Final — 76.40 (→ 9th place)
Raisa Gorokhovskaya
Preliminary Round — 52.64
Final — 73.84 (→ 9th place)
20 fencers, 17 men and 3 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1956.
Men's foil
Mark Midler
Yury Rudov
Iuri Osip'ovi
Men's team foil
Yury Rudov, Iuri Osip'ovi, Mark Midler, Aleksandr Ovsyankin, Viktor Zhdanovich, Yury Ivanov
Men's épée
Arnold Chernushevich
Revaz Tsirek'idze
Juozas Ūdras
Men's team épée
Arnold Chernushevich, Valentin Chernikov, Lev Saychuk, Revaz Tsirek'idze, Juozas Ūdras, Valentin Vdovichenko
Men's sabre
Lev Kuznetsov
Yevgeny Cherepovsky
Yakov Rylsky
Men's team sabre
Lev Kuznetsov, Yakov Rylsky, Yevgeny Cherepovsky, David Tyshler, Leonid Bogdanov
Women's foil
Emma Yefimova
Valentina Rastvorova
Nadezhda Shitikova
Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1956. The Soviet pentathletes won gold in the team event.
Individual
Igor Novikov
Aleksandr Tarasov
Ivan Deriuhin
Team
Igor Novikov
Aleksandr Tarasov
Ivan Deriuhin
The Soviet Union had 25 male rowers participate in seven rowing events in 1956.
Men's single sculls – 1st place ( gold medal)
Vyacheslav Ivanov (Вячеслав Иванов)
Men's double sculls – 1st place ( gold medal)
Aleksandr Berkutov (Александр Беркутов)
Yury Tyukalov (Юрий Тюкалов)
Men's coxless pair – 2nd place ( silver medal)
Igor Buldakov (Игорь Булдаков)
Viktor Ivanov (Виктор Иванов)
Men's coxed pair – 3rd place ( bronze medal)
Ihor Yemchuk (Ihor Yemchuk, Игорь Емчук)
Heorhiy Zhylin (Georgy Zhilin, Георгий Жилин)
Vladimir Petrov (Владимир Петров)
Men's coxless four
Leonid Zakharov (Леонид Захаров)
Aleksandr Sheff (Александр Шефф)
Nikolay Karasyov (Николай Карасёв)
Igor Ivanov (Игорь Иванов)
Men's coxed four
Andrey Arkhipov (Андрей Архипов)
Yury Popov (Юрий Попов)
Valentin Zanin (Валентин Занин)
Yaroslav Cherstvy (Ярослав Черствый)
Anatoly Fetisov (Анатолий Фетисов)
Men's coxed eight
Ernest Verbin (Эрнест Вербин)
Boris Fyodorov (Борис Фёдоров)
Slava Amiragov (Слава Амирагов)
Leonid Gissen (Леонид Гиссен)
Yevgeny Samsonov (Евгений Самсонов)
Anatoly Antonov (Анатолий Антонов)
Georgy Gushchenko (Георгий Гущенко)
Vladimir Kryukov (Владимир Крюков)
Vladimir Petrov (Владимир Петров)
Eleven shooters represented the Soviet Union in 1956.
25 m pistol
Yevgeny Cherkasov
Vasily Sorokin
50 m pistol
Makhmud Umarov
Anton Yasynskiy
300 m rifle, three positions
Vasily Borisov
Allan Erdman
50 m rifle, three positions
Anatoly Bogdanov
Vasily Borisov
50 m rifle, prone
Vasily Borisov
Anatoly Bogdanov
100 m running deer
Vitali Romanenko
Vladimir Sevryugin
Trap
Nikolay Mogilevsky
Yury Nikandrov
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.
