PhD, Associate Professor S.A. Pronin¹
PhD, Associate Professor A.A. Yakovlev²
Associate Professor E.V. Murashko^2
1Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg
²Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health, St. Petersburg

Objective of the study was to assess the degree of influence of the Teoriya i Praktika Fizicheskoy Kutury Journal on the development of the cross-country skiing theory and methodology.
Methods and structure of the study. The statistical survey under the study addressed the cross-country skiing development rates. The data from the information environment of Sport Science System served as an empirical basis. We used its bibliographic, morphological, and semantic modules. Additionally, a thesaurus method was applied. Its empirical basis was formed by the pre-textbooks, study guides, and university textbooks on the theory and methodology of cross-country skiing, which (ideally) were to contain essential knowledge accumulated at a particular point in time.
Results and conclusion. The author conducted a statistical survey of the trends in the number of publications in the period from 1925 to 2019 devoted to the problems of cross-country skiing. In particular, it was shown that the articles published are mostly devoted to cross-country skiing training methods.
The Teoriya i Praktika Fizicheskoy Kutury Journal publications largely reflect the nature of information, which is subsequently transformed into contents of textbooks on the theory and methodology of cross-country skiing, as well as define perspective directions of research in this field.

Keywords: Teoriya i Praktika Fizicheskoy Kutury Journal, theory and methodology of cross-country skiing, trend in number of publications, trend in number of terms used, statistical survey, thesaurus method.

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