The artistic production of Socialist Realism with iconographic models of sports representation in the media of graphics, painting, sculpture and photography is a key element for a better understanding of the development of sports in the context of cultural history as well as the development of that specific genre in the history of engaged art. This master's thesis focuses on the development of the sports genre in the 1920s, when it became a separate genre in official Stalinist art, and on its peak in the 1930s. Soviet artists were very interested in sports and athletes whose bodies became one of their favorite subjects. The main part of the thesis analyzes the works of Alexander Deineka, but also of other artists: Sergei Luchishkin, Matvej Manizer, Alexander Rodchenko, Viktor Ivanovich Govorkov, Alexander Samokhvalov, and Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov, with an emphasis on the representation of the athlete's body in the context of the Bolshevik and Stalinist traditions. The thesis studies four groups of sports genre images: representations of athletes in the context of the "New Soviet Man" and the cult of the machine, representation of the female body, athletic nudes, and sports parades.