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Sport during the Great Patriotic War
- Authors: Kupriyanov A.I.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 140-152
- Section: PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AND SPORTS
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2587-6090/article/view/294113
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22204/2587-8956-2025-120-01-140-152
- ID: 294113
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Abstract
Based on the new archival sources, the paper analyses key aspects of sports history during the war: the reshaping of physical culture and athletic activities in the summer and autumn of 1941; sport practices in the rear areas amidst the war; survival strategies and fitness maintenance of athletes; the processes of restoration of high-performance team and individual sports in 1943–1945. The resumption of the nationwide sports competitions had an important propaganda value. It symbolized the courage of the Soviet people, their faith in the imminent victory. Competitions were a feast amidst the hardships of war and, at the same time, a symbol of peaceful life. The study of sports life during the war years is centered on the most popular and spectacular sport in the Soviet Union, football, which remained an important part of society even during the war period. Football, as an object of people's love, was a sphere of special attention of central and local authorities, an object of state regulation.
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Aleksandr I. Kupriyanov
Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: akouprianov@rambler.ru
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher, executor of the project “Sport in the USSR: Institutions, Practices, Representations. 1930's—1950's” (24-2801390) of the Russian Science Foundation
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