PhD O.S. Botsman¹
Dr.Hab., Professor V.V. Mironov¹
Dr.Hab., Professor G.A. Shashkin^1
1Military Institute of Physical Culture, St. Petersburg

Physical training systems have always been ranked among the key components of the military service personnel training for combat missions and operations in the armed forces and navy as required by the national and foreign training standards. The article overviews the 110-year history of one of the eldest military training establishments of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation that trains Physical Education trainers for the national academies and military units. Military Institute of Physical Culture was initially established on the Royal approval as the Head Gymnastics and Fencing School by the Defense Minister’s Order #348 of August 1, 1909. Historical records of the Institute report multiple feats of its graduates in the Great Patriotic War and later on – on the post-war competitive battlefields. Nine graduates and faculty members of the Institute (D.A. Balakhanov, A.S. Zheltov, B.E. Kovalenko, N.V. Kopylov, L.V. Kudakovsky, V.V. Mironov, F.I. Perkhorovich, S.A. Savushkin and I.S. Ugryumov) were decorated with Hero of the Soviet Union orders. More than 50 graduates of the Institute won the Olympic titles, including A. Alyabyev, I. Bazhukov, V. Belousov, D. Bilozerchev, F. Bogdanovsky, E. Vinokurov, V. Zhdanovich, A. Kasatonov, V. Kapitonov, V. Kuts, V. Krutov, B. Makuts, P. Stolbov, A. Roshchin, S. Sukhoruchenkov, V. Fetisov and many others.

Keywords: Military Institute of Physical Culture, Head Gymnastics and Fencing School, physical training, sports, war, historical analysis.

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