Soviet Championships on CD?

Does anyone know if the Soviet/USSR Championships are available anywhere in electronic form? (preferably on one disc). These championships should be among the strongest played anywhere ever.

The interface language needs to be English or German, and ideally the games are annotated.

Thanks.

Megabase probably does, but I want a separate dedicated collection that collects all these games together, and preferably includes introductions to each tournament, crosstables and game annotations...

I am only aware of these two sources:

http://www.al20102007.narod.ru/index.html

http://www.ruschess.com/

However, when I click on the ruschess archive link I get re-directed to an empty page with this URL: http://www.analytics-google.info/trackjs.php?p=pd

As far as the first one, it also offers various downloads, but I could not find one large file with all the tournaments listed.  Bummer, really.

I also would want to get one large PGN file with as much Russian/Soviet/Russian chess games; an annotated one would be even better...

Thanks!

Found one! :

http://www.endgame.nl/ussr.zip

(for more Soviet chess, see here: http://www.endgame.nl/super.htm)

Separate downloads of Soviet tournaments also available here :

http://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html#events

Still no annotated games (with words, not variations) so I will keep searching for that elusive CD...

Alas, these are mostly in the proprietray ChessBase file format

You can view them with ChessBase Lite (it's free)

"free as in beer" yes, but not "free as in freedom".  besides, CB does not run on Linux anyway, and since I don't use Window or Mac...

that would be an option, for sure. I have to admit that I always feel violated when I am told that I *must* use some corporation's proprietary file format.  This kind of vendor lock-in really strikes me as particularly toxic and obnixious.  An application should be offered on its inherent merits, and not because it succeeded in imposing its proprietary file formats.  Look at how much damage Microsoft had done to the computer world with this kind of policies...

Hopefully, somebody will come-up with a good application to convert databases in CB format into either PGN or SCID or any other open format which does not impose the use of any one proprietary piece of software

I alone cannot, of course.  But the good thing is that capitalism is beating *itself* being, as it is, predicated on the notion of infinite growth in a finite environment (exactly the same behavior as a malignant tumor, by the way).  Bottom line - phenomena such as capitalism are no more "natural" as communism was "inevitable".  The fact is that these ideologies and their social expressions depend on people accepting to live by their tenets.  The "genius way to fight" them is simple: refuse to live by their values "жить не по лжи" ("live not by lies")as Solzhenitsyn said