Lviv State University of Physical Culture

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Lviv State University of Physical Culture - a higher educational institution, which appeared on the centuries-old traditions of national physical culture, is a significant part of Ukrainian culture.
Normative terms of Ph. D. training in the postgraduate course is four years. The amount of the educational components of the educational and scientific program of Ph. D. training is 30-60 ECTS credits. The decision on admission to the entrance exams to postgraduate courses pronounced by committee on the interview results, review of essay and presented scientific works took into account the opinion alleged by supervisor. The applicant who comes to a postgraduate study reported in the term of a week.
According to requirements, admission to doctoral courses is carried out based on scientific, scientific, and technological advances for the chosen specialty. To doctoral courses are accepted persons, who have a degree of Ph. D., scientific achievements and published works on the chosen specialty (including publications in international refereed journals indexed in scientometric bases, according to with the requirements for academic qualifications of persons who are acquiring degrees) and who have scientific results needed of completion or prepared as dissertations, monograph or scientific report on a set of articles. Receiving applications and documents, entrance examinations, competitive selection, and enrollment lasts during the whole year.
The international office was founded in 2008. It coordinates structural division, which aims to develop and implement a strategy for the university's international activities, the expansion, and deepening of the foreign contacts, promote international cooperation in education and science, provide visa support, acceptance, and training of international students at the university.
For the first time in Ukraine, in Lviv, a hundred years ago was originated the following kinds of sport: football, basketball, hockey, water polo, archery, cycling. In 1912, at the Olympic Games in Stockholm, Galicia had a representative - sprinter Vladislav Ponurskoho. In general, long before the establishment of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, Lviv 96 athletes, speaking at the Olympics under the flags of Austria-Hungary, Poland, and the USSR, participated in the competitions of 19 kinds of sports, from where they brought 46 medals: 15 gold, 16 silver, and 15 bronze. So creation in Lviv in 1946 Lviv State Institute of Physical Culture had presupposition.
May 7, 1946, by the USSR Council of Ministers based on the College of Physical Culture, was established Lviv State Institute of Physical Culture. His task is to prepare highly qualified personnel, especially for the USSR's western regions and scientific development of physical education and sports, scientific and methodological assistance to various sports organizations. Initially, in the Institute was a teaching faculty, 15 departments, 150 students enrolled.
In May 1958 institute was given a consultative point of correspondence of the Kyiv Institute of Physical Culture. It started in LDIFK distance learning, and in 1964 formed a separate department. It should be noted that in 1959 the Institute opened school coaches with two years of training, which lasted until 1964. Also, in 1960 began working evening division. In 1969/1970 was opened LDIFK sports department. At that time, specialists were trained at three faculties: teaching, sports, and correspondence. If the 1956 school was 542 students, then in 1974, 1,245 people were trained in stationary and 434 extra-mural students.
In the 70s years in the Institute taught: Victor Chukarin - absolute world champion in 1964, USSR - 1949, 1951, 1955 XV-XVI Olympic Games Andrievsky Vadim - USSR Champion in Fencing (1946), honored coach of the USSR, Vladimir Safronov - a champion of the USSR (1975), silver medalist in gymnastics world Cup (1975) and many other celebrities.
1981 Lviv State Institute of Physical Education, one of the country's leading sports educational institutions, celebrated its 35th anniversary. Then he had a structural reorganization. New perspectives for the development of the Institute came after the proclamation of independence of Ukraine in 1991. Given the centuries-old traditions of the Ukrainian Physical Culture, it was necessary to create a national system of physical education and sports, from the introduction of the Ukrainian language in spravoznavstvo and teaching, curriculum development and programs, the publication of educational literature, the introduction of new disciplines, including the history of Ukraine, history of Ukrainian culture, history of Ukrainian sports movement, processing, and finishing and developing Ukrainian sports terminology and education specialists sports profile, including athletes who have felt the connection with the state in which they were born, live, study, for which they compete in different sports forums. To address these challenging tasks, it needed proper material resources, financing, and nationally conscious professionals. This was possible under the favorable political, economic, and spiritual situation in the country. Indeed, the Lviv State Institute of Physical Culture's leadership had to overcome the difficulties experienced by the young state.
With an appointment to the post of the rector, the famous sports specialist, master of sports, champion of Ukraine, and the USSR Honored Coach of Ukraine Miroslav S. Hertsyka, in the Institute's development, entered a new period.
To expand the areas and improve the quality of training in the sports department in 1996, the department of rehabilitation and recreation was established, and the Department of Economics of Sports, Recreation and Physical culture theory and methodology of Olympic and professional sports.
With Ukraine's accession to the Bologna Convention, LDIFK purposefully moves to a modular credit system and introduces new forms and training methods. Institute, according to the list of specialties within their field of physical culture and sports, trains specialists of different levels - bachelors and masters.
At the meeting on the occasion of Institute 60 years, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine declared August 3, 2006.

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