HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SPORTS IN RUSSIA

The article examines the development of physical culture and sports in historical retrospect in Russia. It is shown that the development of sports in Russia is conditioned by the need to form a harmoniously developed personality as the highest social value, which will contribute to strengthening people's health and increasing life expectancy. However, in recent years, there has been an alarming trend of deterioration in the health of the population. This is due not only to the problems of the economy, ecology, labor and everyday life, but also to the underestimation in society of socio-economic and health-improving processes of the formation of physical culture, which affected the residual principle of its financing, an acute shortage of material resources, qualified specialists. The current situation and, in particular, the sharp reduction in the number of people engaged in physical culture associated with it, led to a number of undesirable social phenomena. The importance of the role of physical culture and sports is currently supported by President Vladimir Putin