Physical Culture and Sports Committee of the Soviet Union

The Physical Culture and Sports Committee under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (, earlier known as the All-Union Council on Physical Culture and Sports () was a main body of Soviet executive power in physical culture and sports originally established in August 1920 as part of the Soviet vsevobuch (Main directorate of General Military Education of the Russian People's Commissariat on War).

In 1936 it was transformed into an All-Union committee and a State committee.

At first it was established as interdepartamental commission, Supreme Council of Physical Culture which included representatives of Vseobuch, People's Commissariat of Enlightenment, People's Commissariat of Healthcare, trade unions, Russian League of Communist Youth (RKSM, later known as Komsomol), and sports-gymnastics societies. It also was a consultative agency to Vseobuch.All Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviet of workers, soldiers and peasants deputies (Всероссийский Центральный Исполнительный Комитет Совета рабочих, солдатских и крестьянских депутатов). Ministry of Sports (Russian Federation). Since 1923 and until 1936 it was a special agency of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.

Its main duties included development and review of programs, provisions, regulations, and guidelines on physical education; organization and holding of sports competitions; general management of sports organizations; preparation of physical culture cadres (staff); monitoring of the physical education of students; medical control over the health of those engaged in physical culture and sports.

Chairmen All-Union Council on Physical Culture All-Union Council on Physical Culture Period in office Nikolai Podvoisky 1920–1923 Nikolai Semashko 1923–1926 1926–1930 Nikolai Antipov 1930–1934 Vasiliy Mantsev 1934–1936

All-Union Committee on Physical Culture and Sports On 1 April 1936, the All-Union council on Physical Culture was transformed into the All-Union Committee on Physical Culture and Sports in 1936–1953 and 1954–1959.

Period in office Ivan Kharchenko 1936–1937 Aleksandr Zelikov 1937–1938 Vasiliy Snegov 1939–1945 1945–1948 1948–1951 Nikolay Romanov 1951–1959

In 1953–1954 it was part of the Ministry of Healthcare and in 1959–1968 it was governed by the Union of Sports Societies and Organizations (SSOO).

After 1968 it was known as Sportkomitet and Goskomsport.

[State] Committee on Physical Culture and Sports Period in office Sergei Pavlov 1968–1983 1983–1989 1989–1991

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External links All-Union Council on physical culture. History of sports and physical culture. Governors of the main Russian sports agency throughout full history of its existence (Руководители главного российского спортивного ведомства за всю историю его существования). Contemporary museum of sports.