ORGANIZATION OF SPORTS LIFE IN THE WORKERS 'AND PEASANTS' RED FLEET IN 1918 - 1919
The article examines the organization of sports events in the Workers and peasants red fleet in the conditions of Civil war and intervention. For the first time, the work of the party bodies of the Baltic fleet on the formation of sports leisure among the personnel of the naval forces is analyzed. The article examines the effectiveness of activities carried out by athletes of the Baltic fleet to combat the actions of foreign intelligence services in the area of Petrograd and the Neva Bay. This article is also of interest to specialists in military history, as it is based on archival documents of the Russian archive of the Navy (RGA of the Navy) and materials of sports publications in the first years of Soviet power.