OUR UNIVERSITY. Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism known up to 1993 as State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education

Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism known up to 1993 as State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education (SCOLIPE) is the largest higher educational establishment in the sphere of physical education in Russia. The origin of the State Central Institute of Physical Culture dates back to 29^th May, 1918. Originally it was a 6-months course for sports coaches, but on December 1^st, 1920, V. I. Lenin signed a decree raising the institute to the status of a higher educational and scientific centre. The Lenin decree provided the guidelines along which the institute was to develop. Since that time the institute has begun to play a leading role in the USSR sports. The teaching staff of the institute has made a great contribution to the development of scientific methods of physical train­ing in the USSR and in 1934 the institute was awarded by the Order of Lenin.

The Great Patriotic War interrupted its peaceful work. In October 1941 the institute moved to Sverdlovsk where its teaching staff took an active part in defensive works and in training reservists for the Armed Forces (ski­ers, grenade throwers, hand-to-hand fighters). Over 400 students and professors volunteered to defend freedom and independence of their country. Many of them were killed, seven have become Heroes of the Soviet Union. The collective of the institute cherishes the memory of those who perished in the war. Every year, on Victory Day the students of the University take part in the contests dedicated to the memory of the Soviet Union Hero Boris Galushkin.

The University is situated in the capital of Russia - Moscow, the greatest financial, industrial, historical and cultural center of the country. Our higher educational establishment is one of the leading centers in Russia for training highly skilled specialists in the field of physical education and sports. Within the time of the University activity more than 50 thousand highly skilled specialists in physical education and sport have graduated from it including 4000 foreign specialists from 115 countries. Today the total number of students is about 4700 including about 150 foreign students.

Among the graduates of our University there are European, World and Olympic champions such as Lev Yashin, Valeriy Brumel, Elena Voytsehovskaya, Irina Rodnina, Andrey Bukin, Natalia Bestemianova, Peter Bolotnikov, Anfisa Reztsova, Valeriy Kharlamov, Nikolay Balboshin, Boris Gurevich, Irina Slutskaya, Svetlana Zhourova, Gennady Karponosov, Victor Ageev, Natalia Lisovskaya, Olga Brusnikina, Yuri Kashirin, Irina Moisseeva, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Sergei Grinkov, Maria Butyrskaya, Alexander Timoshinin, Oleg Goncharenko, Alexander Balashov, Svetlana Kriveleva, Pavel Bure.

Today more than 550 instructors direct academic, educational, scientific, methodical and sports work of students and post-graduates at the chairs and laboratories of the University. More than 70 per cent of them have scientific degrees and academic status. Among the teaching staff there are 100 Professors, Doctors of Science, 250 assistant professors, PhDs. Annually the scientists of the University issue more than 300 publications, including monographs, text books, training appliances, scientific articles and other works. University possesses one of the largest libraries in the world on physical education and sport with the fund of more than 600 thousand volumes of books, it represents complex informational system, aimed at providing educational process and scientific research.

Structurally the University consists of Institute of Physical Education, Sport and Fitness, Humanities Institute, Institute of Recreation and Tourism, 44 chairs, Preparatory Department for Training Foreign Students, post-graduate department, higher coaching school, institute for advanced qualification and staff retraining, scientific-research center. University disposes of the unique sports complex comprising 14 specialized sports halls, indoor athletics arena with artificial covering, 3 shooting halls, indoor skating rink for ice sports, swimming pool with 3 baths, stadium with football field and track-and-field facilities, 13 outdoor tennis courts. On the territory of the University there are two buildings of the hostel for students and postgraduates, several cafes, restaurant, shops. The University has its own medical service department.

Institute of Physical Education, Sport and Fitness.

The institute trains bachelors and masters on direction "Physical Education", specialists on specialization "Physical Education and Sport".

Specializations: theory and methodic of aviation kinds of sport, aiki-do, sport acrobatics, armsport, aerobics and fitness, basketball, billiard, boxing, kickboxing, cycling, volleyball, handball, artistic gymnastics, calisthenics, golf, mountain kinds of sports, rowing and sailing, Greco-Roman wrestling, free style wrestling, judo, karate-do, skating, biathlon, downhill skiing, freestyle, table-tennis, swimming, underwater kinds of sports and diving, sambo, synchronized swimming, applied kinds of single combats, taekwon-do, tennis, sportive-remedial activities, technical kinds of sports, training technologies, weight-lifting (weights sport, power triathlon, bodybuilding), fencing, figure skating, football, hockey, chess, sportive-remedial tourism, sports management.

Humanities Institute.

The Institute trains specialists in "Producing theatrical performances and festivities", specialization: sports producing, sports animation; speciality "Public relations", specialization: public relations in the sphere of physical culture and sports, sportive press service; direction: "Economics"; speciality "Management of organization", specialization: sports management, speciality "The organization of work with youth", speciality "Psychology".

Institute of recreation and tourism.

The institute trains bachelors and masters on direction "Physical Education", bachelors on direction "Tourism", specialists in speciality "Recreation and sportive-remedial tourism", and specializations youthful tourism and local history, recreation management and tourism; speciality "Tourism", specializations: organization technologies of tour-operation and agent services, technology and organization hotel services, organization technology of catering services; speciality "Physical Education and Sport", specialization theory and methodic of sport tourism, theory and methodic of sportive-remedial activity. "Physical education for persons with health deviations" (Adaptive physical education), specializations: adaptive physical education, adaptive motor recreation, physical rehabilitation, technology of management in adaptive physical education.

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