DEVELOPMENT OF MARTIAL ARTS IN CHUVASHIA IN 1991–2000: INFORMATION POTENTIAL OF ARCHIVAL SOURCES

Abstract

To date, the general development of the historiography describing the development of martial arts domestic system is determined by the presence of disputes among specialists about the content of the main stages in this process. The least developed in the scientific aspect is the analysis of the documentary funds of central and regional authorities in the field of physical culture and sports, as well as public associations and associations of martial arts, which would make it possible to determine the features of evolvement, as well as the prospects for the development of specific schools and federations in various regions of our country.
 The article considers the features of the content of the documentary funds of the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports of the Chuvash Republic and the Chuvash Republican Association of Martial Arts, stored in the funds of the Budgetary Institution “State Archive of Modern History” of the Chuvash Republic for the period from 1990 to 2000. The information potential of these funds is analyzed when covering the process of formation and development of the martial arts system in Chuvashia from 1990 to 2000. The specifics of the documents’ content of the regional profile ministry and the public organization, whose activities during the period under review were associated with the development of types of martial arts, were determined.
 Historical information about the development of martial arts in Chuvashia in the 1990s in archival sources is very diverse and has a different level of informative value. Presentation of both official documents and internal documentation of individual public organizations and associations in the field of martial arts development in the republic currently requires systematization and analysis of statistical material on the number and quality of sports sections and associations that engaged in martial arts in the 1990s, their personal composition, participants, some of whom became champions of Russia, Europe and the world.