The Physical Culture and Sports Committee under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (, earlier known as the All-Union Council on Physical Culture and Sports () was a main body of Soviet executive power in physical culture and sports originally established in August 1920 as part of the Soviet
vsevobuch
Vsevobuch ( rus, всевобуч, p=fsʲɪˈvobʊtɕ), a portmanteau for "Universal Military Training" (), was a system of compulsory military training for men practiced in the Russian SFSR governed by the Chief Administration of Universal Militar ...
(Main directorate of General Military Education of the
Russian People's Commissariat on War).
In 1936 it was transformed into an All-Union committee and a State committee.
At first it was established as interdepartamental commission that included representatives of
Vseobuch,
People's Commissariat of Enlightenment
The People's Commissariat for Education (or Narkompros; , directly translated as the "People's Commissariat for Enlightenment") was the Soviet agency charged with the administration of public education and most other issues related to culture. In 1 ...
,
People's Commissariat of Healthcare, trade unions, Russian League of Communist Youth (RKSM, later known as
Komsomol
The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, usually known as Komsomol, was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although it w ...
), and sports-gymnastics societies. It also was a consultative agency to Vseobuch.
All Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviet of workers, soldiers and peasants deputies (Всероссийский Центральный Исполнительный Комитет Совета рабочих, солдатских и крестьянских депутатов)
Ministry of Sports (Russian Federation). Since 1923 and until 1936 it was a special agency of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union
The Central Executive Committee of the USSR (), which may be abbreviated as the CEC (), was the supreme governing body of the USSR in between sessions of the All-Union Congress of Soviets from 1922 to 1938. The Central Executive Committee elec ...
.
Its main duties included
* development and review of programs, provisions, regulations, and guidelines on physical education;
* organization and holding of sports competitions;
* general management of sports organizations;
* preparation of physical culture cadres (staff);
* monitoring of the physical education of students;
* medical control over the health of those engaged in physical culture and sports.
Chairmen
All-Union Council on Physical Culture
All-Union Committee on Physical Culture and Sports
On 1 April 1936, the All-Union council on Physical Culture was transformed into the All-Union Committee on Physical Culture and Sports in 1936–1953 and 1954–1959.
In 1953–1954 it was part of the Ministry of Healthcare and in 1959–1968 it was governed by the Union of Sports Societies and Organizations (SSOO).
After 1968 it was known as Sportkomitet and Goskomsport.
tate
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Committee on Physical Culture and Sports
Notes
References
External links
All-Union Council on physical culture
History of sports and physical culture.
Governors of the main Russian sports agency throughout full history of its existence (Руководители главного российского спортивного ведомства за всю историю его существования)
Contemporary museum of sports.
Physical Culture And Sports
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