Chosen forms of participation in physical culture in the multinational Stanisławowski province in the period 1920-1939

Teresa Drozdek-Małolepsza,Eligiusz Małolepszy

doi:10.16926/par.2021.09.31

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present an outline of the history of physical culture in the Stanisławowski province (an area that is currently within the borders of Ukraine) in the period 1920-1939 in the times of the Second Polish Republic. In the inter-war period the development of physical culture took place in the Stanisławowski province. In the period of the 1920s and 1930s there was a development of sports infrastructure. Social and sports associations were established, while also sports clubs, as well as the fact that sports organizations were reactivated that had operated in the period prior to the outbreak of the First World War among the Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish communities. Organizational structures of sporting movements were established, among others, Stanisławowski District Football Association, as well as structures at a sub-district level. The development of sporting competition took place. The most popular sporting discipline was football; while also gymnastics, horse riding, cycling, athletics, shooting, skiing, table tennis.

Highlights

The Stanisławowski province was established on 23 December 1920 as one of the first of its kind in the Borderlands of the South-East Second Republic of Poland
The aim of this paper is to present an outline of the history of physical culture in the Stanisławowski province in the period 1920-1939
An important element in the activities in terms of physical education and sport was the conditioning on the sphere of sporting infrastructure in the Stanisławowski province

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Introduction

The Stanisławowski province (an area that is currently within the borders of Ukraine) was established on 23 December 1920 as one of the first of its kind in the Borderlands of the South-East Second Republic of Poland. The date of establishing the province constitutes the preliminary caesura of the paper. The final caesura is the year 1939 – the outbreak of the Second World War. On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland, while on 17 September 1939 the Soviet Union did likewise. As a consequence of these actions, the area of the Tarnopolski province was occupied by the Soviet Union. The Stanisławowski province encompassed 16,894 km and 1,480,300 inhabitants [7,12].

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