Background of the emergence of mass physical culture and sports in the everyday life of the cities of the Soviet Union

Abstract

In the USSR the development of physical culture and sports was one of the directions of the «cultural revolution». State programs of general physical education, support for physical education and sports organizations, the inclusion of physical education and sports facilities in civil engineering plans in the first decades of Soviet power significantly increased the overall level of physical culture in the country and made sport a noticeable phenomenon of cultural life. Various groups of the population were involved in the sphere of physical culture and sports: industrial workers, students, and women. This physical culture and sports movement was amateur in the best and, perhaps, exact sense of the word, for it was an uncomfortable and entertaining activity, and with enthusiasm it was a life program. But what influenced the creation of sports priority in the country? What was the germ of the origin of the mass physical education in the daily life of the population of the USSR? These questions are raised in the article.