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IntroductionNowadays the experts say the sphere of physical culture, sport and tourism in the Russian Federation was faced with a number of system challenges. Chief challenges among them are: the deterioration of the level of health and physical fitness of the population of the Russian Federation and the lack of an effective system of selection and training of sports reserve for national teams for summer and winter sports (Strategy of development of physical culture). It should be noted that the preparation of the sports reserve of our country's authorities pay substantial attention. According to the deputy of the Department of budgetary policy in the social sphere and science of the Russian Federation Ministry of Finance M. Alashkevich the total expenditure of the consolidated budget of Russia for physical culture and sport are about 180 billion rubles annually. Alashkevich claims that total financing of this budget line allow Russia to occupy a leading position in the number of funds allocated by the state for the development of physical culture and sports in comparison with other developed countries. So the share of expenditure on physical culture and sports amounted to about 0.3% in total federal budget expenditures and in most developed countries the athletes of which are in direct competition with the national teams of our country at great sporting events there is the share of expenditure allocated to physical education and sport is not exceeded to 0.1-0.2% of the total budget. For example, according to M. Alashkevich, in 2012 the share of federal budget spent on physical education and sport is higher than the total share spent for the same scope of these countries as Britain, Germany and France put together (Alashkevich, 2012). Unfortunately, there is a significant imbalance between the share of all levels of budget expenditures allocated for the development of mass physical culture and the development of professional sports. Government priorities related to the development of high performance sport and the situation related to the funding of mass sport and recreation movement does not improve. According to E. Duplinskoy, in recent years, the structure of total budgetary allocations of the federal budget to finance the physical education and sport as follows: elite sport takes 86% to itself of total expenditure, physical education and sport for only 12% of the costs and 2% of expenditure is allocated to a decision of other issues. And if in general the state expenditures on this area of activity increase year-on-year then it can happen only due to a significant increase in spending on elite sport and to physical culture but mass sports expenditures have been steadily declining (Duplinskaya, & Selivanov, 2014). It should also be noted that according to the statistical studies our country is far behind the most developed countries (US, Germany, Britain and others.) on the number of people who are regularly engaged in physical training. While in developed countries the physical exercises are regularly performed up to 40% of the total working-age population but in the Russian Federation there is over 11% as it is indicated by A. Chizhov (Chizov, 2008).The health situation most of the young people receiving higher education in Russian universities is really a cause for serious concern. According to reports of medical and educational research there are more than 50% of applicants admitted to the universities have already 2 or more chronic diseases and 40% of young men of military age are not able to meet standards for physical fitness even on a satisfactory mark (Osipov, Kadomtseva, & Kharlamova , 2016). It was revealed that during training in high schools the level of students' physical health has been steadily declining due to a number of negative factors (stress, fatigue, lack of exercise, etc.) (Osipov, Loginov, & Prikhodov, 2014). However, it should be noted that quite a disturbing situation with the level of physical fitness of students has developed today in almost all regions of the world as it was indicated by K. …

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