Sports tradition for spiritual and moral upgringing of children in the orthodox parochial gymnasium

The paper considers sports traditions and recreational activities held in the Orthodox parochial gymnasium in Surgut, within a comprehensive study of spiritual and moral upnringing of students and a model of pedagogical support of spiritual and moral upbringing of students in Orthodox educational institutions. The study is aimed at identifying personal attitude of students towards sports and recreational activities in an Orthodox environment. The study was to confirm or refute the hypothesis that spiritual and moral upbringing of students within the Orthodox tradition is not only complying with the students’ desire for self improvement and physical development, but it also stimulates the interest to healthy lifestyle. The research methods included observation, surveys, analysis of the reporting documents from the educational institutions provided by PE teachers, and other materials. The results of the study confirmed the hypothesis, since none of 150 respondents expressed doubts about the need to develop physical fitness and promote sports among students with traditional orthodox values...