Mr. Anatoly A. Suchilin - Rector, Professor, Doctor of Pedagogics,
Honoured Person of Physical Culture of RF.

The Volgograd State Academy of physical education founded in 1960 is situated on the bank of the great Russian river Volga. During 40 years the Academy had gone a large journey. It played an important role in the Olympic Movement development, physical education and sports in Russia.

It trained more than 20 000 teachers of physical education and sport coaches. The Olympic champions, world record-holders Popov, Pankratov, Selkov, Bondarenko, Romanova, Opalev, the outstanding coaches of modern times Avdienko (swimming), Ackopyan (handball), Dogonkin (athletics) and others are among the students and graduates of the Academy.

Nowadays the Academy is a large educational center including five departments: they are preparatory, basic, specialized training and correspondence departments, the advanced professional skill deportment and master's degree courses. More than 1200 students, foreign citizens included, study at the Academy.

This Higher School trains specialists in track-and-field, swimming, canoeing, soccer, volley-ball, basketball, weightlifting, boxing, gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics, tumbling, sports dance, aerobics, adaptive physical education, sports management and production, educational sport, health technologies, chess, tennis.

Broad humanitarian practice is being carried out together with sports training here.

There are 8 sports-pedagogical chairs, 6 socio-humanitarian and 3 medico-biological chairs. Highly qualified specialists (12 academicians and corresponding members of the academies of different spheres, more than 100 lecturers with higher degrees, 17 doctors of sciences and professors included, teach anatomy, physiology, sports medicine, hygiene, pedagogics and psychology, theory and methods of physical education and sports, economy, sociology, sports management, Olympic education, history and other subjects.

The Academy is a large scientific center. There are post-graduate courses and thesis council, the branch of the International Academy of Sciences of pedagogical education.

The Academy has a modern educational and sports base. There is a stadium with synthetic covering, an indoor soccer and track-and-field stadium, gyms, and sports games halls, a swimming-pool, studying laboratories, lecture halls.

VSAPC closely collaborates with Russian institutions of physical culture, Teachers' Training University, Volgograd school of Olympic reserve, sports clubs "Rotor", "Caustik", "Lukoil-Spartacus", Teachers' Training college in Mikhailovka, institutes in CIS and abroad: Kharckov and Dnepropetrovsk institutes of physical education, American Biographical Institute, etc.

Проспект Ленина, 78,
г. Волгоград, 400005, Россия.
Тел. (8442) 34-66-80, 34-01-95.
Факс: (8442) 34-66-72.