HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS
In the fall of 1934, the All-Union Committee for Higher Technical Education developed, and the People's Committee approved, a plan for the development and equipment of classrooms and auditoriums, on the basis of which a military physical education department was created at the institute in 1934. Based on the Order of the Department of Construction Universities of the USSR Ministry of Higher Education No. 126 of June 15, 1949, a department of physical education was created, headed by N. T. Lyndar.
In the 1965/66 academic year, the department was included in the educational part of the institute, and since the 1968/69 academic year it has been part of the engineering and economic faculty of the Kharkiv Institute of Municipal Construction Engineers. In 1972, the institute's educational and sports base, located in the forest park strip, was opened. Since the 1988 academic year, the department has been included in the Faculty of Power Supply and Urban Lighting.
In 1978, the head of the Department of Physical Education and Sports, Hennadiy Kosmachevskyi, created a Sports Club of the Institute, which was headed by the teacher of the Department, Hryhoriy Kiktiev. He was replaced in 1998 by the associate professor of the Department, Volodymyr Lutsyk. Since 1999, V. L. Lutsyk has headed the Department of Physical Education, and Yuriy Kravets has become the head of the Sports Club. From 2002 to 2010, the head of the sports club was Serhiy Bilous.
From 2010 to 2015, the sports club of students of the O. M. Beketov NUUEKh was headed by the senior lecturer of the Department of Physical Education and Sports, Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine Dmytro Bezkorovainyi. In 2015, it was headed by the senior lecturer of the Department, Master of Sports of Ukraine - Iryna Zvyagintseva.
Today, our students have the opportunity to exercise, maintain their physical fitness and professional performance in a new educational and sports building, the first stone of which was laid on June 24, 1991. The grand opening of the building took place in the fall of 1998. The symbolic Golden Key from the treasury of physical education and sports knowledge and sports achievements was presented to the Department of Physical Education and Sports by the rector of the Academy, Leonid Shutenko.
The University, the Department of Physical Education and Sports and the Sports Club are proud of the achievements of the teachers who worked at different times at the Department. Their inspired work was marked by the discovery of new directions for the University in sports improvement. Lecturer Oleksandr Skrypka, a participant in the World War II. He worked at the Department from 1949 to 1959, started the direction of sports work in women's gymnastics. This was the first sports section of the Institute. He created and headed it on a voluntary basis, and part-time was the deputy dean for sports and mass work at the Faculty of Electric Transport. Lecturer of the Department Olekiy Kanishchev worked from 1949 to 1958, created the direction and headed the section of cyclic and technical sports. He trained excellent athletes in track and field, shot put and javelin throwing. A great contribution to sports achievements and new ways of development was made by Yuriy Knezhevych, who worked as a teacher for about 9 years. He created a weightlifting section. In this section, a graduate of the Institute of Physical Culture and Sports, the future rector Leonid Shutenko, trained and was part of the institute's team. The team of the Institute of Physical Culture and Sports repeatedly won the city and regional championships among student youth.
Anatoliy Chechil began the sports path of water sports at the Institute. He created a kayaking and canoeing team. He worked at the Department for 9 years. He was a senior lecturer and responsible for the department's sports and mass work. The institute's team repeatedly took first places at the Spartakiads among universities. The team leaders were part of the regional team, the team participated in the Championships of Ukraine. This direction was expanded by the senior lecturer of the Department, Mykola Shumarov, a judge of the All-Union category, Honored Coach of Ukraine in swimming (he received the honorary sports title for educating his student O. O. Barkalov, a two-time Olympic champion in water polo). He laid the foundations of the institute's swimming team. The institute's team repeatedly took first places at the student Spartakiads. Among the women's team of the department, Nataliya Yunasheva and Valentyna Korzhikova stood out for their work. They worked at the Department for over 20 years. Under their leadership, the teams in athletics, gymnastics, and table tennis repeatedly won the Spartakiads among universities.
Viktor Labkovskoy began the path of women's basketball at the Institute. He himself was among the best basketball players of the city and region, repeatedly played for the national team of Kharkiv and the Kharkiv region. During 10 years of work at the Department, he created one of the best women's basketball teams in the region. The direction of playing sports was expanded by Anatoliy Holovin. He worked as a teacher at the department for 8 years, created and coached the institute's football team, which repeatedly won the city and regional championships among student youth.
Pavlo Bohdanov, Master of Sports of the USSR in Greco-Roman wrestling, was a multiple champion of Ukraine, the Central Sports Council of the USSR «Dynamo», twice a silver medalist of the USSR. He worked at the department for about 12 years. The path of the power martial arts section began. In this section, a graduate of the Institute, the future head of the Department of Physical Education and Sports ofthe O. M. Beketov NUUEKh V. M. Klochko trained and was part of the national team. The teams in Greco-Roman wrestling, sambo and judo created by P. A. Bohdanov repeatedly won and were prize-winners of regional Spartakiads among universities. The direction of power martial arts at the Department was continued and developed by associate professor, Master of Sports of the USSR in freestyle wrestling Yevhen Hamal, multiple prize-winner of the Championships of Ukraine. He worked at the department for 6 years. During this time, he defended his dissertation for the candidate of pedagogical sciences in the direction of power martial arts. He prepared a team of wrestlers that successfully defended the honor of the Institute at regional competitions.
The direction of cycling at the Institute was created by Tim Kamenetskyi. He worked at the Department for 8 years. He was a senior lecturer and responsible for the educational work of the Department. The team of cyclists he created worthily defended the honor of the Institute, the city and region, as well as Ukraine at the Universiades of the USSR.
The direction of games of mental skill, the sports chess and draughts club «Kayissa», was created at the Institute by the senior lecturer of the Department of Physics and Mathematics, Honorary Director of this club, candidate for Master of Sports of the USSR in chess, Hryhoriy Kiktiev. He worked at the Department since 1967. He coached artistic gymnastics (men) and badminton. The talent of the organizer H. S. Kiktiev was revealed in the position of the head of the sports club of the Institute, which he began working with in 1978. In 1981, he created the sports chess and draughts club of the Institute «Kayissa», which was one of the best student sports clubs in the region. The University's chess teams were the strongest in Kharkiv and the region for many years. Representatives of the University defended the sports honor of Ukraine and the USSR at the European, world and world Universiades Championships.
The directions of cyclic sports (cross-country skiing, skiing, orienteering and tourism) were created by a senior lecturer, judge of the All-Union category of the USSR Volodymyr Honchar and a master of sports in tourism, teacher Anatoliy Chervyakov. The master of sports in mountain tourism, associate professor of the Department of Physics Y. D. Oksyuk provided great assistance to the Department in the direction of tourism. The University's cross-country and skiing teams were leaders in the Spartakiads of universities and the Universiades of Ukraine, the «Patrol Run» competitions. The University's ski team trained the Champion of the Universiade of Ukraine, candidate for master of sports of the USSR, student of the Institute and then the candidate of technical sciences, associate professor Mykhaylo Kyselyov.
Currently, 18 University teams in 12 sports are training in the sports club's sports improvement section. The team draws inspiration from teachers - the founders of the sports movement.
More than 1000 students and teachers are engaged in sports in the University's sports club annually. During this period, it was possible to increase the efficiency of educational and training processes, shift the emphasis from managing students by methods and forms of physical education to increasing forms of elective sports and physical education self-government of students. As the main incentive motivation of students to engage in physical exercises, the Department and Sports Club of the O. M. Beketov NUUEKh use a three-pronged strategy - improving personal health, improving psychophysiological physical training and improving personal sports results. This strategy is implemented in the directions of expanding the diversity of groups of elective sports orientation, sports of higher achievements and wide sports information (newspapers, television, Internet). At this time, each student of the sports improvement department is a participant in the Universiade of the O. M. Beketov NUUEKh between study groups and faculties in several sports: athletics and cross country, armwrestling, futsal, volleyball, basketball, chess and checkers, table tennis and competitions in test standards. The Sports Club provides sports training for students of all faculties in elective groups: chess, aerobics, athletic gymnastics and martial arts. These elements of organizational, pedagogical, educational and methodological work contribute to the formation of a stable interest of student youth in regular physical education classes, strengthening sports motivation and increasing sports performance.
Over the past years, the University has undergone an update of the forms, methods and means of sports and physical education, which affects the processes of sports life and education of students. Registered non-Olympic sports: armwrestling, taekwondo, kickboxing, karate, futsal and many others. The Sports Club preserves the traditions of the sports past of the state and the University, and continues under the effective ideology that was formed and carried out by the leadership of the O. M. Beketov NUUEKh: «We must do everything better than others. We are all rowers of the same boat in the turbulent current of the river of knowledge. As soon as we stop working synchronously, we will be carried back». This thesis is an organizational and substantive part of the concept of the quality of work of the Sports Club and the Department of Physical Education and Sports, motivates innovative changes and increases the efficiency of educational and training processes, which are provided by the professionally trained scientific and pedagogical staff of the Department.
