National styles of wrestling as an ethnic cultural tradition: functional and organizational aspects

At present the search of new spiritual and moral principals of culture becomes more and more urgent because of moral values depreciation that has taken place recently. Although one can observe increasing interest to ethnic social traditions there are some gaps in studying them, one of those being the specific mechanism of their realization in contemporary circumstances. The authors of the article consider some pedagogical forms of realization of national wrestling and its functions as means of physical education and integral part of national culture.