Youth Athletic and Sports Movement in the USSR on the Eve of the Great Patriotic War (According to the Materials of the Penza Region) Cover Image

Молодежное физкультурно-спортивное движение в СССР накануне Великой Отечественной войны (по материалам Пензенской области)
Youth Athletic and Sports Movement in the USSR on the Eve of the Great Patriotic War (According to the Materials of the Penza Region)

Author(s): Evgeny Nurdygin
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Sports Studies
Published by: Altezoro, s. r. o. & Dialog
Keywords: Great Patriotic War; physical culture; sports; Penza region;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the development of the youth athletic and sports movement in the Penza region in the first half of 1941 – before the Great Patriotic War. The activities of local Soviet-party and public organizations for the health improvement and military sport training of the population, especially the young: mass ski trips and crosses, gymnastics competitions, athletic crosses (for the Day of the Bolshevik Press, of Komsomol-trade union, for the prize of the "Young Leninist" newspaper, etc.).

  • Issue Year: 4/2018
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 3001-3006
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Russian