The Leningrad Theater of Physical Culture «Spartak» (1932–1940)
https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.3.96.024
Abstract
The study is devoted to the Leningrad Theater of Physical Culture «Spartak», which existed in the 1930s and has not yet become the object of a separate scientific study. Based on the materials of the theater’s foundation, stored in the Central State Archive of Literature and Art of St. Petersburg and practically not introduced into scientific circulation, the main stages of its development and features in the context of the history of physical culture in Soviet Russia during the interwar period are reconstructed. As a result, it was concluded that the main reason for its difficult fate and closure was the financial factor, when no management wanted to take over the unprofitable theater. As a result, a largely unique and generally sought- after undertaking turned out to be without proper support and patronage, which was not an isolated case for physical education and sports during the period under conditions of resource scarcity.
Keywords
physical culture,
history of sports,
history of theater,
physical culture dance,
Theater of physical culture,
physical culture in the USSR
Supporting agencies: The reported study was funded by RSF, project no. 24–28–01790.
About the Author
I. V. Sidorchuk
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sidorchuk Ilya Viktorovich — Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Higher School of International Relations
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Sidorchuk I.V. The Leningrad Theater of Physical Culture «Spartak» (1932–1940). Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2025;(3(96)):236-243. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.3.96.024
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