SPORTS IN RUSSIA AT THE END OF THE XIX AND BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURES
The article is devoted to the analysis of the development trend of sports in Russia at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, changes in the vector of relations to sports practices in the pre-revolutionary time and the Soviet period of the 30th years. Particular attention is paid to the historical moment of the beginning of the use of domestic sports as a tool and an integral part of the ideology of the state.