Abstract:
The article notes that one of the crucial conditions for the development of the physical culture movement in
the postwar years in Central Asia and Kazakhstan was the restoration, expansion of sports facilities, the production
of sports equipment, the resumption of sports sections, organizations, sports schools, the revival of
national sports. It is emphasized that the sports communities of Kazakhstan, actively created after the war,
take an enormous part in the formation of physical culture and sport. The healthy way of life is propagandized,
drunkards and parasites are ridiculed, new kinds of sports, for example, mountaineering get popular. At
competitions of different levels — from rural competitions to the sports days of the peoples of Central Asia
and the USSR — new sports records are set, new names of Kazakh athletes are sounded. More and more representatives
of the indigenous population are attracted to all kinds of sports sections, sports are developing in
rural areas. The article traces the main trends and trends in the development of physical culture and sports in
the Kazakh SSR, quantitative indicators of sport achievements are outlined.
