Kolos (sports society)

The Kolos VFST (full name: All-Ukrainian association of physical culture and sports "Kolos" of the Ukrainian Agro-Industrial Complex, Ukrainian: Всеукраїнське фізкультурно-спортивне товариство «Колос» агропромислового комплексу України, ВФСТ «Колос») is a fitness-sport society of the Agro-Industrial Complex of Ukraine, formerly a rural sports society and a trade unions - cooperative sports society that was uniting farmers, workers, servicemen, technicians of agricultural organizations, enterprises, establishments, and educational institutions. Created in 1950 under the name of "Kolhospnyk" (farmer of kolkhoz), it changed its name to Kolos in 1970.