At the beginning of formation and development of higher education of physical training in Karelia (1956-1965)

The history of the development of higher physical education in Russia is more than 100 years old; a significant number of documents and studies have been published on different periods of the historical past of physical culture institutes in general and individual faculties of physical education at pedagogical institutes in particular. The article is devoted to the formation and development of higher physical education in Karelia in 1956-1965, when a department of physical education was opened at the Karelian State Pedagogical Institute. Active research work on the problems of higher physical education does not lose its relevance to this day. The methodological basis of the research is based on the principles of historicism and objectivity, which allows us to consider the processes of development of higher physical education in the region from specific historical positions and more fully take into account the historical and modern socio-cultural context. The novelty of the research is determined by the introduction of previously unpublished sources into scientific circulation. The source base for writing the work was the fund of the National Archives of the Republic of Karelia, the Karelian-Finnish State Pedagogical Institute (F. R-1168), personal files of teachers who worked at the university in different years, published and unpublished documents. Until now, there are no studies that present a holistic picture of the formation and development of the Faculty of Physical Education, sports achievements of teachers and students of a pedagogical institute (now a university), since the material is scattered across various books, articles, essays, and a number of aspects remain unexplored. For the first time, the author analyzes the activities of the physical education department of the Karelian Pedagogical Institute on the basis of legislative acts, archival documents and documentary materials.