The establishment of professional physical education in the Crimea in the early 1930s

The purpose of the article is to consider the process of formation of professional physical education in the Crimea in the early 1930s. Based on the analysis of previously unpublished documents stored in the State Archive of the Republic of the Crimea (fund R-1209), for the first time the issues of opening and operation of the Crimean College of Physical Culture in Simferopol and the physical education department in Yalta Tatar pedagogical college in 1931-1933 are considered. It was established that the opening ofthe first specialized physical education institution in the Crimea was caused by an acute shortage of qualified personnel of the appropriate profile in the region against the background of the mandatory introduction of physical education in educational institutions of all levels and an increase in the number of production teams of physical culture at enterprises, collective farms and state farms of the peninsula. The Central Executive Committee of the Crimean ASSR, based on the decisions of higher Soviet bodies, decided to organize in Simferopol a College of Physical Culture and open a department of physical culture at the Tatar Pedagogical College in Yalta starting from the 1931/32 academic year. The Supreme Council of Physical Culture of the Crimea carried out active preparatory work in a short time and, having solved a number of personnel, material and organizational problems, completed the assigned tasks. In the summer of1933, after providing the Crimean College of Physical Culture with its own premises, it was moved to Feodosia with the transfer of a contingent from the physical education department of the Yalta Tatar Pedagogical College. It is concluded that at the initial stage of the formation of professional physical education, despite a large number of difficulties, primarily a lack of financial and material resources, educational institutions managed to successfully carry out work on training physical education personnel for the Crimean ASSR for two years.