What is the traditional sports program in Russia?

Sambo is a traditional Russian sport, which means "unarmed combat" and is the "national sport" of the former Soviet Union.

Because the traditional sambo technique is based on wrestling, it is also commonly known as "Russian wrestling" or "Russian judo", but it is not purely "judo" or "wrestling". However, it is not pure "Judo" or "Wrestling", and its techniques have distinctive Russian national characteristics. 1905, Osepkov, a judo master who grew up in Japan, returned to the USSR and designed a set of fighting techniques suitable for the physical characteristics of the Russians by combining judo and wrestling, which is "Sambo". This was called "Sambo". This set of techniques is very similar to Judo in many places, but it has absorbed and developed a lot of techniques that Judo does not have, such as more perfect takedown locks, joint techniques, especially for the legs of the joints are very strong. Later, it drew on the essence of Chinese grappling techniques, Japanese karate, Korean Tangjutsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and other Eastern and Western fighting techniques, and continuously enriched, sublimated, and gradually formed a set of theory thorough, mature system of combat arts.