In Gorodki with pleasure playing Russian writers Tolstoy and Gorky, the singer Chaliapin, music critic and composer Stasov, Academician Pavlov, Timofeev-Resovskii geneticist, as well as the Soviet leaders Lenin, Stalin, Kalinin, Voroshilov.
As sport has uniform rules, Gorodki were formed in 1923, when Moscow held its first all-union competition. In 1928, the towns were included in the All-Union Olympiad. In 1933 came new rules, which were identified 15 pieces. Since 1987, the asymmetric target for left-handers have a mirror flip.
Particularly popular towns conquered in the XX century. In 1936 the USSR championships are held on campus.
Almost all of the competition won the Muscovites. Honored Master of Sports, the champion of the Union of Gorodki in the team and individual competition Semen Gromov jokingly claimed that in 50 years of championship titles were distributed in the train that took Moscow gorodoshnikov the competition. In the team's most famous battles were the team "Hammer and Sickle (5 years champions)," Spartacus "(5 years champions)," Zeal. "
According to official statistics, in the 60's - 70's of the towns in the Soviet Union was engaged in about 350 thousand people. The popularity of the towns began to fall to 80-90-s.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the number involved was sharply reduced, inventory gorodoshny no longer manufactured.
Since the beginning of the XXI century interest in Gorodki again began to rise. In particular, every year the Cup of Europe on the Gorodki.
