The author, an editor of sports in the Children's Television Studio, describes the athletics program, aired and asks for comments on their scope, type, and content. (JH)

This paper describes "Smena," a Specialist Children's and Young People's Sport School of Olympic Reserves, located in Leningrad, which trains elite young soccer players. Information is given on: (1) the facilities of the school; (2) the schools' long-range individual and team goals; (3) instructional methods and hours; (4) the…

The following articles on athletics in the Soviet Union are edited and translated for American readers: (1) "Isokinetic Exercises"; (2) "Breathing During the Execution of Precise Motor Acts"; (3) "Investigation of the Running of Pre-School Age Children"; (4) "Al Feuerback and V. Voikin in the Shot Put"; (5)…

Discusses trends in research on human athletic potential. Anthropomaximology, an approach developed in the USSR to study the reserve potential of healthy people and the methods for realizing it under conditions of maximum effort, is described. (AM)

Physical education and research programs, and recreational and athletic facilities, in Yugoslavia, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, England, and the U.S.S.R. are examined by two faculty members from the University of Alberta. This publication is an abridgement of their report on European approaches to physical education and recreation, giving their…

Two articles examine athletics in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The first discusses the disintegration of the Soviet sport system following the Soviet Union's breakup. The second examines the future of CIS athletics which, it is claimed, may never again reach the stature achieved by the Soviet Union. (SM)

This article discusses running as a universal means of physical training and of developing speed and especially endurance with sections on types of running, time and place for running, methods of exercise, and regulating size of stress load. (Author/JH)

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a Soviet government decision to expand physical culture and sports in the Soviet Union. It stipulates that the physical culture movements should be genuinely national in character, and that it should be carefully integrated in a scientifically organized system of physical…

The author describes ways of implementing a differentiated approach to physical education from ascertaining the preparedness of students to conducting lessons and assessing progress. (JH)

Sports activities for pioneers and school children since the launching of all union "Always Prepared" marches are discussed in this article. (JH)

Describes the physical education program in elementary schools in the U.S.S.R. as well as special schools available for intensive training in various sports. (ST)

This report on sports and physical education in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is based on visits made to that country, as well as personal interviews. Sports and physical education held a minor place in Russian society prior to 1917, but with the onset of communism, the fundamental credo became that sports and physical education…

The important place of physical culture and sports within the daily lives of the people is described in this article. The GTO Physical Culture Complex, a set of exercises and activities with precise standards, used as a normative test for school children and adults is given particular attention. (JH)

The events -- gymnastics, games, dancing, foot racing, skiing, etc. -- that make up field and parade days for elementary students with both individual and group participation are discussed in this article. (JH)