IVAN BOBERSKYI – THE FOUNDER OF THE UKRAINIAN SYSTEM OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS
IVAN BOBERSKYI – THE FOUNDER OF THE UKRAINIAN SYSTEM OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to comprehensively analyze the contribution of Ivan Boberskyi(1873–1947) to the formation and development of sports among the Ukrainians. The work is alsorelevant due to the fact that in February 2019, the Lviv State University of Physical Culture wasnamed after Ivan Boberskyi. Ivan Boberskyi took his first steps in the field of physical educationand sports as a teacher in the Academic Gymnasium (1901–1918) and its branch (1908–1910), inthe private women’s seminary of the Ukrainian Pedagogical Society (1903–1905) and in the Basil-ian Sisters Servants Gymnasium (1906–1914) in Lviv. Here, relying on national traditions, he beganto put into practice the knowledge acquired in Europe on the theory and methods of physicaleducation. Thanks to Ivan Boberskyi, the Ukrainian Sports Club (1906), the Girls’ Sports Club(1910), the sports society “Ukraine” (1911) and “Plast” (1911) were created. When he was in dif-ferent countries, Ivan Boberskyi familiarized himself with the types of sports common there. Hepublished his thoughts, impressions, remarks, scientific and methodological recommendations.Ivan Boberskyi introduced into wide use both foreign language sports concepts and terms devel-oped and translated by him

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