ВЫПИШИТЕ НЕЗНАКОМЫЕ СЛОВА С ТРАНСКРИПЦИЕЙ- The Volgograd State Academy of Physical Education is situated on the bank of great Russian river Volga. The Academy started its history in 1960.
It played an important role in the Olympic Movement development, physical education and sports in Russia.
Nowadays the Academy is a large educational center. More than 2000 students, including foreign citizens, study at the Academy.
This Higher School trains specialists in track-and-field, swimming, canoeing, soccer, volleyball, basketball, weightlifting, boxing, gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics, tumbling, sports dance, aerobics, adaptive physical education, sports management, educational sport, health technologies, chess, tennis.
The administrative structure of the Academy includes Rector, three assistant rectors, the Deans and the Heads of chairs.
The Academy has two Departments: the Day-Time Department and the Correspondence Department. In the Day-Time Department there are three faculties: the Physical Education Faculty, that of Physical Training and Spots and Preparatory Faculty for Foreign Students. Each faculty is administered by a dean.
The faculty of Physical Education offers under-graduate programs leading to the bachelor’s degree in the field of physical education teaching and coaching.
The advanced students can take the first step into graduate education and work two years more for the master’s degree.
The faculty of Physical Training and Spots educates professionals in various fields such as: adaptive physical training, management of organization, pedagogy and psychology. That requires 4 years of study. After successful final examinations a graduate receives the diploma of a bachelor.
There are 18 chairs at the Academy with highly qualified specialists. Academicians and lecturers with higher scientific degree, honored Masters of Sports and honored coaches teach Anatomy, Physiology, Sport Medicine, Hygiene, Theory and Methods of Physical Education and sports and other subjects.
The academic year is divided into two terms. At the end of each term, the students receive credits and take examinations. Most of the students are granted state scholarships.
After graduating from the University, the students work as coaches, PE teachers. They also become specialists in adaptive physical education and physical therapy.
The Academy has a modern educational and sports base. There is a stadium with synthetic covering, an indoor soccer and track-and-field stadium, gyms, and sports games halls, a swimming-pool, studying laboratories, lecture halls.
It trained more than 20,000 teachers of physical education and sport coaches. The Olympic champions, world record-holders: Sadovyi, Popov, Pankratov, Selkov, Bondarenko, Romanova, Opalev, Lebedeva, Isinbayeva, Slesarenko, the outstanding coaches of modern times: Avdienko (swimming), Ackopyan (handball), Dogonkin (athletics), Trophymov (athletics) and others are among the students and graduates of the Academy.
The students of the Academy are faithful to the glorious traditions of one of the best higher educational establishment of physical education in Russia. They are constantly improving their skills and mastership.
