PHYSICAL FITNESS LEVEL OF GRADUATES OF PRE-UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The ongoing reform of the military education system has caused an increase in the number of pre-university educational institutions in the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation including cadet corps, Suvorov and Nakhimov schools and others. A total number of currently functioning pre-university educational organizations in the system of military education of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation amounts for 29 institutions [1, 2]. The development of the physical fitness system is characterized by a significant renewal of its content, the search for modern, more advanced forms and methods for carrying out verification and assessment of the level of physical fitness of servicemen [3, 4]. The article examines the level of physical fitness of graduates of educational organizations of the pre-university level of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation in order to determine whether the regulatory requirements meet the real level of their physical fitness.