Physical Culture and Sports in the USSR and Soviet Kazakhstan in the 1940s–1980s.

Abstract

In the article the issues of the development of physical culture and sports in the USSR and the Kazakh SSR in the 1940s–1980s. are considered. The methodological basis of the study was the principle of historicism, which allowed to examine the subject of research in development and interrelation. A brief historiographical review demonstrated that in the Kazakh historiography the history of Kazakhstan's Soviet sport has never become the object of a special study of historians. In general, physical education was not given due attention by the authorities until the 1950s, however, in the second half of the 20th century, the introduction of physical culture and sports into the everyday life of a Soviet citizen was one of the important problems in the development of physical culture in the Soviet country. The expansion of the physical culture and sports movement was facilitated by the opening of universities, technical schools, schools, faculties of physical culture, sports schools, the creation of sports committees, societies, clubs, etc. The figures on the dynamics of the expansion of the material base in the USSR and in the republic are given. The authors characterize the national types of competitions that have acquired a mass character. It is concluded that already in the 1950s and 1970s physical culture and sports became part of the educational system, and physical culture became an important component of one of the aspects of leisure of the Soviet person and the social life of society.