Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism

Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism (SCOLIPE) (Russian: Российский государственный университет физической культуры, спорта, молодёжи и туризма (ГЦОЛИФК)) is a university in Moscow, founded in 1918.

History

The idea of creating an educational institution came from the wife of Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, Vera Velichkina (1868-1918), who after the October Revolution, from December 20, 1917, organized and headed the school-sanitary department of the People's Commissariat of Education [3]. Her proposal was supported by the first People's Commissar of Education, Anatoly Lunacharsky. He recommended locating the institute in the palace of Count Razumovsky on Gorokhovskaya Street (now Kazakova Street), expropriated by the Soviet government.

On May 29, 1918, the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture was opened. In June 1918, six-month courses for training physical culture instructors opened. On August 24, 1918, an announcement was published in the Izvestia newspaper about the first recruitment of students to the one-year Institute of Physical Culture. The admissions committee of the institute received 317 applications, including 117 from men and 200 from women. 32 people were admitted to the first year, mainly teachers and doctors from various provinces. The first classes at the institute began on October 1, 1918.

By the summer of 1918, the school sanitary department of the People's Commissariat of Education and the institute came under the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of Health. On August 29, 1919, the board of the People's Commissariat of Health adopted a regulation on the Institute of Physical Culture. Its first rector was a specialist in school hygiene and physical education, Doctor of Sciences (1903), Professor (1918) Varnava Efimovich Ignatyev. At the institute, he headed the department of school hygiene.

On December 1, 1920, by decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, signed by V. I. Lenin, it was established as a higher "educational institution of the People's Commissariat of Health". The Moscow Institute of Physical Culture received the status of the Central Institute (GCIFK).

The first curriculum included the study of dynamic anatomy, physiology, physiological chemistry, hygiene, psychology, gymnastics, labor processes, sequential exercises, Swedish gymnastics, Lesgaft exercises, plasticity, rhythm, fencing, choral singing, musical culture, expressive speech, carpentry and bookbinding. In the first decade of the institute's work, the proportion of medical and biological subjects in the curriculum was higher than that of specialized sports disciplines.

Since 1921, on the initiative of the institute's teachers, a sports club of the institute was organized. The institute's athletes participated in Moscow and USSR championships, made long-distance skiing and cycling trips, and were involved in mountaineering and parachuting.

Names

• 1918 – Moscow State University of Physical Education
• 1920 – State Central Institute of Physical Education (SCIPE)
• 1934 – State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education (SCOLIPE)
• 1937 – State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education "Marshal Joseph Stalin"
• 1961 – State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education (SCOLIPE)
• 1993 – Russian State Academy of Physical Education (RSAPE)
• 2001 – Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism (RSUPESY&T)

Notable alumni

Many graduates are European, World, Olympic and Paralympic champions:

Concentration

• Athletics: Valery Brumel, Svetlana Kriveleva, Natalia Lisovskaya, Pyotr Bolotnikov
• Biathlon: Olga Zaitseva, Anfisa Reztsova
• Bobsleigh: Alexey Negodaylo
• Chess: Yuri Balashov, Viktor Bologan, Miron Sher
• Cycling: Yuri Kashirin
• Diving: Elena Vaytsekhovskaya
• Fencing: Sergey Bida, Aleksey Frosin, Valentina Rastvorova, Sergey Sharikov, David Tyshler

Figure skating:Irina Rodnina, Andrey Bukin, Natalia Bestemianova, Anna Semenovich, Irina Slutskaya, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Sergei Grinkov, Maria Butyrskaya, Gennady Karponosov, Irina Moiseeva, Alexandra Trusova.

• Football: Lev Yashin, Dmitri Sychev, Devidas Shemberas
• Judo: Dmitriy Nosov
• Hockey: Aleksey Morozov, Alexander Ovechkin, Ilya Kovalchuk, Pavel Bure, Valery Kharlamov,
• Rowing: Alexander Timoshinin
• Skiing: Olga Zavyalova
• Speed skating: Oleg Goncharenko, Svetlana Zhurova

Notable faculty

David Tyshler (1927–2014), Ukrainian/Soviet Olympic bronze medalist fencer

Selected departments and specializations

Chess

Grigory Goldberg (1908–1976), in 1966, was the founding head of the postbaccalaureate program in chess which initially was organized as an academic specialization of the institution. In 1974, the specialization program was upgraded to the Chess Department that offered a Master of Sport in Chess. The chess program is chronicled as the first in the history of higher education.

The Master of Sports in Chess should not be confused with the title and rank, Master of Sports of the USSR in Chess, which was established for men in 1934 and for women in 1950. From 1934 through 1987, the USSR conferred 1,061 Master of Sport in Chess titles – 904 to men and 157 to women. The Master of Sport of the USSR was a nationally distinguished rank and title for many major sports of the former Soviet Union.

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