HISTORY OF THE IMPACT OF THE GTO COMPLEX ON THE LIFE AND HEALTH OF THE SOVIET PERSON IN THE CITIES EVERYTHING SOVIET UNION
The development of physical culture and sports in the USSR took place under one common idea - the creation of a state whose military power would be able to respond to any aggressive attack by the capitalist countries. State programs of general physical education, support for physical education and sports organizations, the inclusion of physical culture and sports facilities in civil engineering plans in the first decades of Soviet power significantly increased the overall level of physical culture in the country and made sport a noticeable phenomenon of cultural life. Various groups of the population were involved in the sphere of physical culture and sports: industrial workers, students, women. One of the aspects introducing the importance of playing sports into the consciousness of Soviet people was the “Ready for Labor and Defense!” Complex. This article discusses the emergence of the GTO physical training complex, its formation and influence on the daily life of the Soviet people.