History of the development of physical culture and sports in Kazakhstan in 1946–1960 in the period of Soviet power

Abstract

The article notes that one of the crucial conditions for the development of the physical culture movement in the postwar years in Central Asia and Kazakhstan was the restoration, expansion of sports facilities, the production of sports equipment, the resumption of sports sections, organizations, sports schools, the revival of national sports. It is emphasized that the sports communities of Kazakhstan, actively created after the war, take an enormous part in the formation of physical culture and sport. The healthy way of life is propagandized, drunkards and parasites are ridiculed, new kinds of sports, for example, mountaineering get popular. At competitions of different levels — from rural competitions to the sports days of the peoples of Central Asia and the USSR — new sports records are set, new names of Kazakh athletes are sounded. More and more representatives of the indigenous population are attracted to all kinds of sports sections, sports are developing in rural areas. The article traces the main trends and trends in the development of physical culture and sports in the Kazakh SSR, quantitative indicators of sport achievements are outlined.