Sports rise of Soviet Ukraine on the pages republican magazine "Start" 1970s

Abstract

The presented article is the executive report of the author regarding the implementation of the historical and fundological study "Printed publications of Ukraine in the 1970s: thematic and content priorities", planned for implementation by the Book Chamber of Ukraine in 2023. The purpose of the work was to conduct a hitherto non-existent press research based on the materials of the oldest Soviet sports magazine — the republican magazine "Start", which was published in the USSR — Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic since 1922. In accordance with the chronological limits of the specified historical and fundological research, the annual issues of "Start" became the subject of study, which were published during the 1970s. The author's emphatic assertion of the article was a statement about the special status of sports in world history. The achievements of Ukrainian Soviet sports in the 1970s are reviewed on the basis of specific factual material and with the names of outstanding sportsmen of the Ukrainian SSR. Based on the Olympic achievements of Soviet Ukraine, the author noted that the then Ukrainian SSR was a powerful training ground for the Olympic champions of the Soviet Union. The concluding part of the presented article contains the statement that a wide network of sports clubs and schools operated in the Ukrainian SSR. On the basis of the study of the primary source base of the research (the Ukrainian-language monthly "Start" from the 1970s), the author insists that the studied period became one of the most successful in the development of Ukrainian sports, because the named historical era gave Ukraine and the world many star names in the field sport.