Gold medal of the 1952 Chess Olympiad

The 10th Chess Olympiad occurred from August 9 to August 31, 1952, in Helsinki, Finland. Twenty-five teams participated in the competition, with the Soviet team making its debut. This formidable squad included Keres, Smyslov, Bronstein, Geller, Boleslavsky, and Kotov, who secured their first gold medals for the Soviet Union—a reign that would extend over the next four decades of Chess Olympiads.