Dr. Hab., Associate Professor A.V. Ponomarev¹
E.V. Reimer^1
1Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg

Objective of the study was to determine the impact of sports on the formation of tolerance among students.
Methods and structure of the study. At the theoretical stage of the study, the tasks of determining the role of mass sports as a tool for disseminating the idea of tolerant relations at the university were solved; disclosure of educational and social functions of sports activities of students; determining the educational potential of student sports in the formation of a culture of tolerance as its ability to ensure in the university environment the formation and development of a set of qualities of a tolerant personality in a student. At the applied stage of the study, a massive online survey of students from the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (hereinafter - UrFU), whose tasks covered a range of issues related to the role of sports as a factor in the formation of tolerant relations at the university in the minds of students.
Results and conclusions. The educational potential of sport in the formation of a culture of tolerance among students is significant due to the fact that sport is a means of transmitting an international universal culture without prejudice, xenophobia, racial discrimination and gender prejudice. Promoting the educational and social function of sport means: developing access to sports practices; promote citizenship education; promote the social and professional integration of young people; participate in the prevention and fight against xenophobia and violence. From the study, it is obvious that in the views of students, sport is an important factor in the formation of tolerant relations at the university. In the student environment, the opinion prevails that joint sports contribute to the interracial and interethnic rapprochement of university students.

Keywords: student sports, multicultural educational environment of the university, student sports clubs, tolerance, culture of tolerance.

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