History of the Department of Gymnastics and Swimming

Department Of Gymnastics And Swimming

Before the merger in 1995, there were two separate departments.

Gymnastics Department

On September in 1945, the Department of Gymnastics began to work as one of the structural units of the university.

From the first days of its existence to the gymnastics became a training center for specialist teachers, coaches and scientists.

 

First graduation of KazIFK students, 1949 A.A. Ershov  (centre) with a group of KazIFK students of the first set

	Associate Professor Georgi Meshchersky is an Honored Coach of Kazakhstan. A graduate of the GDOIFK Im. Lesgaft, worked in KazIFK since 1945, for many years was the head of the department, made a significant contribution to the training of specialists, combined pedagogical activities with coaching, they trained members of the national team Kaz SSR.
	Associate Professor Alexander Danilovich Tulupov, Ph.D.,  Distinguished Coach of Kaz SSR, worked at the department since 1947 after graduating from GDOIFK, prepared the CHAMPION of the USSR in acrobatics.
	Associate Professor Lusik Karpovna Kasparova – Distinguished Coach of Kaz SSR, a graduate of KazIFK 1948, judge of the all-union category. She was the coach of the national team of the republic in rhythmic gymnastics, brought up the first galaxy of gymnasts-artists of Kazakhstan and masters of sports.

Before the merger from 1945 to 1995. The chair managers were the following gymnastics specialists:

1. Ershov A.A. (1945-1950) – MS, Distinguished Coach of Kaz SSR.
2. Mukhamedzhanov H.M. (1951-1957) Associate Professor.
3. Kuanyshbayev K.K. (1959-1961) .
4. Meshchersky G.A. (1962-1971) – Distinguished Coach of Kaz SSR, AssociateProfessor.
5. Goranko M.I. (1973-1981) – Ph.D., Associate Professor, Judge MK.
6. Vasitsky V.A. (1981-1989) – honorary M.D., VC judge.
7. Nadyrov A.L. (1990-1995) – Ph.D., Associate Professor.

After the merger of cafedr – doctor of pedagogical sciences G.M. Sarsekeyev (2008-2009); CPS.,D.K. Nurmuhanbetova  (2009-2014) ; DPS., Professor  A.S. Zhumanova (2014-2018);  Dr.  PhD A.B. Yermakhanova (2018).

Among the teachers of the department in different years were: on artistic gymnastics – A.A. Ershov, G.A. Meshchersky, I.M. Mullayev,  T.E. Dordiy,  M.I.  Goranko, V.P. Shepka,V.V. Stepanov, V.N. Baturin, P.D. Petrov, G.L. Golykh, V.S. Shevergina, A.U. Kashkembayev, V.M. Smirnov, V.A. Wasitsky, A.F.  Radanenko, L.A. Popova, V.D. Kuznetsov, A.S. Yakupov, J.Y. Chimirov, A.S. Sarkenov, V.M. Polyakov, A.L. Nadyrov, I.I. Gridyushkin, G. Potapovich, V. Simonov, M.A. Ivanov, V.P. Kozhevnikov, A.J. Komlev, V.N. Kuzmin, A.K. Asrankulov, S.S. Bezruchkov, L.G. Lavrova, T.K. Rakishev, E.T. Uzakov,N.K.Kozhakov; in rhythmic gymnastics – L.K.Kasparova, A. Batyrbekova, N.B. Lapteva, S.D. zagoderchuk, N.V. Gerasimova G.V. Kovalenko, L.A. Ermukhametova, A.N. Umetaeva, M.M. Yunusbayeva, T.P. Polukarov,  A.S. Jumanova, L.M. Omurzakova;sports acrobatics –  A.D. Tulupov,  V.P.  Blintsov, I.V. Moskalov,V.A. Doctorov, V.F. Starodubov, V.P. Shevchenko, A. Kozyrev, A.N. Mitin, G.M. Sarsekeyev.

 

Department staff in 1984-1985 academic year

For many years, experienced accompanists worked at the department: P.A. Kurdyumova, V. Cheverdin, V. Shedro, E. Khan, L. Lizunkina, L. Koshkareva, V. Chuguyev, M. Usenova, G. Smetannikova; laboratory technicians – K.D. Kirienko, V.A. Ilyin, A.G. Katanayev; secretaries – L.S. Doctorova, Gorodetskaya S.

Nand the department was entrusted with the responsibility of organizing and preparing physical holidays. The delegation of the department took part in the opening ceremony of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.

Students and teachers of the department who participated in the opening ceremony of the Moscow Olympics (the head of the delegation is Vasitsky V.A.)

Republican seminar of coaches with the participation of the head coaches of the USSR national teams L.S. Ladynina and V.M. Smolevsky

Graduates of the department, formerly high-class athletes, are the main backbone of the coaching staff in the country – Honored coaches of the USSR A.F. Radionenko, E.N. Yarov, Honored Coaches of Kazakhstan – G.A. Meshchersky, L.K. Kasparov, V.V. Stepanov, V.N. Baturin, V.P. Blintsov, N.A. Marakova, G. Tregugubenko, V. Vereshchagin, O.B. Mataganova, A.A. Grebenyukov, J.Y. Chimirov, A.G. Kalish, G.S. Komlev, M.I. Eskindirov, M.I. Judges of the International category – V. Wasitskiy, E. Geidt, M. Goranko, A. Kalish, A. Kim, G. Komleva, A. Komlev, H. Kurbanov, O. Mataganova, V. Orlov, V. Schulz, E. Yarov, G.A. Diaghilev,A.S. Jumanova. Trained masters of sports: in gymnastics – more than 200, in rhythmic gymnastics  –  more than  1 00,on sports acrobatics – more than  90; masters of sports of international class – 25,  three  Honored Masters of Sports of the USSR  –  N. Kim,  N. Ilenko, V. Novikov and HonoredMasters  of Sports RK – S. Fedorchenko, Yu Tsapenko.

	Yuri Tsapenko is an honored master of sports of the USSR, Distinguished Coach of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Champion of the USSR in horse exercises, bronze medalist of the Olympic Games on horseback, silver medalist in the team championship (1964).
	Kim Nelly – Distinguished Master of Sports of the USSR, five-time Olympic champion (1976, 1980), five-time world champion (1974, 1978, 1979), two-time European champion (1975, 1977), multiple champion of the USSR, champion VI,  VII  Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR (1975, 1979).  Member of the Women’s Technical Committee of the FIA (since 1996). President of the Women’s Technical Committee of the FIA (since 2004).
	Lukin Valery – Distinguished Master of Sports of the USSR, two-time Olympic champion (Seoul, 1988), two-time world champion, five-time European champion, champion of the Goodwill Games (1990), champion of the USSR.
	Vladimir Novikov – Distinguished Master of Sports of the USSR, champion of the USSR, Europe, two-time world champion (1987-1989), Olympic champion in the team championship (1988).
	Ilenko Natalia – Distinguished Master of Sports of the USSR, two-time world champion (1981, 1983), silver medalist of the European Championship in exercises on a log (1981), absolute champion of the USSR (1984), champion of the USSR (1980,1981,    1984)
	Alexey Dmitrienko – winner of the World Cup in the bar exercise (1998, Sabaya Japan), silver medalist of the Asian Games in the exercise on bars (1998, Bangkok), bronze medalist of the East Asian Games, winner and medalist of the World Cup Stages.
	Ernar Yerimbetov – Distinguished Master of Sports of Kazakhstan, champion of Asia, bronze medalist of the Asian Games silver medalist in the exercise on bars and crossbars at the East Asian Games. Two-time champion and silver medalist of the World Summer Universiade (2003), silver medalist of the World Cup stage in the exercise on the crossbar (2003) participant of the Olympic Games (2004)

Teachers of the Department of Gymnastics and Swimming 2019.

Swimming Department

Before the unification in 1995, the ode to the departments of swimming was an independent division of the institute. In particular, the institute’s curriculum provided for a compulsory swimming course for all students.

Lukyanovsky is the first head of the swimming department of the Kazakh State Institute of Physical Culture (1945-1946).

The first classes on sports swimming skills were held outside the city on a pond in the village of Tastak under the guidance, then young professionals, graduates    of the G.M. Lukyanovsky ,  A.P. Gut, G. Sinitsina.  

In the summer of 1947, the first personal-team championship of the republic in swimming was held on this pond on a temporarily equipped swimming pool with three tracks, where the teams of Guryev, Uralsk and Alma-Ata took part.

Due to the unfavorable conditions for training and work to promote swimming sports, there was a need to build at least a primitive swimming pool.

The search for the construction site of the pool led to the Park of Culture and Recreation by Mikhail Gorky, where near the river Alma-Atinka was a neglected, littered with garbage site.

With the active assistance of the Alma-Ata City Committee of the Communist Party and the Central Committee of the LYC of Kazakhstan, enthusiasts of the Komsomol group Kaz Gor Project, on a public basis, a project of a summer pouring swimming pool measuring 25×15 meters with an 8-meter tower for diving, a sediment for heating and chlorination of water was prepared.

In a very short period of time, by the forces of students and teachers of the Kazakh Institute of Physical Culture, on a public basis, the swimming pool was built, may 2, 1948, it was the opening of the great water festival. 

The swimming pool of the institute, built in a picturesque area of the park of culture and recreation, has become one of the best sports facilities in the capital. On its territory there was a gymnastic town, a platform for weightlifting and sports wrestling.

The first swimming pool of the Kazakh Institute of Physical Culture in the country gave impetus to the development of sports swimming, water polo and diving. Regular competitions and water festivals attracted the attention of a wide range of residents of Alma-Ata, who were happy to visit them and sent their children to the educational groups organized by the department.

In August 1948, the second personal-team championship of the Kazakh USSR in swimming was held in this pool, which later became the center of educational-methodical and sports-mass work. Teams of four regions (Guryevskaya, Ural, Kzyl-Ordinskaya, Semipalatinsk) and Alma-Ata participated.

The appearance of the material base created conditions for the inclusion of sports swimming in the program IV of the All-Ukastan Spartakiad in 1949.

Swimming competitions in the program of the All-Cossack Spartakiad have become the arena of study of participants, coaches, heads of sports organizations of the republic and a tribune of widespread popularization of sports swimming. During the competitions, organizational issues were resolved on the creation of a section (federation) of swimming, the chairman of which was elected head of the swimming department Alexander Petrovich Gut.

A noticeable shift in the mass and skill of the swimmers of Kazakhstan took place already at the V All-Kazakh Spartakiad 1950.They were: Bahi Yelgundiyev (1927, coach A.P. Gut), Viktor Morozov (1928, coach A.P. Gut), Yuri Kaby (1928, coach L.M. Lukyanovsky), Nikolai Semashko (1928, coach S.A. Hasanov).

Participating in the 1st Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in 1956, the swimmers of Kazakhstan took the 11th place among 17 teams of the Union republics.

By this time the talent of the swimmer Gennady Nikolaev was revealed – 1938 (Alma-Ata, coach L.M. Lukyanovsky), who fulfilled the strict standard set by the Ussr Swimming Federation. He was a member of 10 Soviet swimmers who competed in the 16th Olympic Gamesin Melbourne, Australia, where he won bronze in the 4 x200m relay. Gennady Nikolaev, repeatedly defending the country’s sporting honor on the international stage, becomes the world record holder in the relay swimming 4×200 m freestyle (1956), six-time (1956-1958) record holder of Europe in relay swimming, two-time record holder of the USSR (1957) in swimming in 200 freestyle. During this period, a number of swimmers – Tamara Dobrovolskaya, Mikhail Shegai, Oleg Mikhailov, Vladimir Petrov, Abdullah Enikeev and others- show themselves. who successfully defended the honor of Kazakhstan at many competitions and competitions of the peoples of the USSR.

The country is positively addressing such crucial issues as training and construction of swimming pools. In 1949, the Kazakh Institute of Physical Culture carried out the first production of highly qualified swimming specialists, the number of which by 1967 reached 98 people.

Despite the noticeable increase in the results of the leading swimmers of the republic from the competition to the competition, the standings of the national team of swimmers deteriorated. If on the 1st Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR swimmers took the 11th place, then on the 2 Spartakiad they fell a notch and took the 12th place. Unprecedented harvest on records were the competition of swimmers on the program 3 Spartakiads of the peoples of the USSR 1963. Twelve records of the Kazakh USSR were set. However, it brought even more disappointment to swimming fans in the country – Kazakhstani swimmers had to settle for only 14 places, although the team was prepared much stronger than before the 2nd Spartakiad.

It became clear that for effective training and successful participation of Kazakhstani athletes at the Ussr’s Spartakiads, other conditions are needed to enable year-round training of swimmers – indoor swimming pools. In the following years, a number of indoor winter swimming pools were built. The first of these (25 x12.5m) in Karaganda at the end of 1957. In 1963, the Winter Pool (25 x8.4m) of the Palace of Pioneers in Almaty and the summer (50 x20 m) heated water pool in Kentau; in 1965 – winter (25 x15 m) swimming pool at the Alma-Ata Housebuilding Plant; indoor pool (25h5m) with two tracks in Ust-Kamenogorsk; Spring 1967 – Winter Pool (25 x15m) at the Central Stadium of the Kazakh USSR in Almaty.

The appearance of indoor swimming pools, built and equipped at the level of modern requirements, created conditions for year-round training work with swimmers, and this immediately affected the growth of sports and technical results of swimmers. Thus, if in 1965 the standard of the master of sports of the USSR managed to overcome only one swimmer from Karaganda Nikolai Budyansky (coach A.P. Yurchenko), in 1966 this threshold is overcome by 9 people. They were: Almaatins – Ilya Slobin (1947), Larissa Belousova (1948 coach V.V. Masyutenko); Vladimir Tatarchuk (1944,  coach S.A. Hasanov); Yuri Gilev (1948), Igor Panov (1951), Alexey Svetonosov (1948, coach O.E.Mikhailov); Yuri Titov (1943), Valery Yermoshin (1946, coach B.E.Vishnyakov) and Vladimir Konradi (1947) from Karaganda (coach L.M. Lazaridi). Yurchenko; Tatiana Kursinova (1948, coach S.A. Hasanov; Viktor Aboimov (1948, coach L.M. Lazaridi; Olga Butskaya (1953, coach B.E. Vishnyakov); Yuri Mishin (1950, coach M.I. Shegai); Yuri Bozhenko (1950) R.B. Petrov); Sergey Molgachev (1950, coach O.E. Mikhailov); Shamil Garipov (1951, coach A.S. Segov).

If before 1965 in the table of records of the republic there was not a single result exceeding the standard of the master of sports, on the eve of the 4th Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR out of 24 types and distances of individual swimming in the table of records of the republic 15 belonged to the masters of sports of the USSR, 7 – candidates for masters of sports of the USSR and only 2 – first-graders.

 

The Department of Swimming, since   1948, was headed by Shamil Abdulovich Hasanov (1921-1970), who made a great contribution to the development of the department and swimming in the republic, Distinguished Coach of the Republic in swimming, coach of the national team, judge of the all-union category.

             

They worked with him at the department:

	AP Gut – Asan adeserved coach of The KazSR, assistant professor, founder of diving in the republic, judge of the all-union category on diving;  O.K. Legalov; A.A. Kryukov is an honorary coach of the republic and the USSR in water polo, a judge of the all-union category on water polo, the coach of the national team; I.V. Goloha, Y. Savchin, A.M. Yudanov.
	V.V. Grigorovich – Distinguished Coach of the Republic, one of the founders of water polo and bench shooting in the republic, judge of the all-union category on water polo and bench shooting, coach of the national water polo team of the republic;
	M.I. Shegai – Distinguished Coach of the Republic, 17-time champion of the Republic in swimming, winner of the first international swimming competitions in Kazakhstan with the participation of Finland and, the judge of the All-Union category in swimming, three times headed the national team of the Republicin swimming.
	N.A. Matsko is a judge of the All-Union Swimming Category. The team of swimmers of Kazakhstan, which took the previous competitions of the peoples of the USSR respectively 11,12, 14 places, in 1967 made a leap, moving to   7th place.
	The successes of the swimmers of Kazakhstan, their access to new, higher frontiers were the result of creative searches and selfless work of coaches, organizers of the physical movement of the republic. They also meant that sports swimming passed the stage of formation, became much stronger and became one of the most popular sports in the country.

The successes of the swimmers of Kazakhstan, their access to new, higher frontiers were the result of creative searches and selfless work of coaches, organizers of the physical movement of the republic. They also meant that sports swimming passed the stage of formation, became much stronger and became one of the most popular sports in the country.

As a result of the preparation and participation of the team of swimmers of Kazakhstan at the IV  Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in 1967, the honorary title of “Honored Coach of the Kazakh USSR” Shamil Abpdulovich Hasanov,the senior coach of the republic Boris Elizarovitch Vishnyakov, graduate coaches of the Kazakh  State Institute of Physical Culture Vasily Masyutenko, Oleg Evgenyevich Mikhailov, Vladimir Borisovich Petrov, Mikhail Shegai, Eduard Samoilovich Levites (all from Alma-Ata), Lazari

 Swimmers of Kazakhstan achieve new heights of sportsmanship and at the subsequent Spartakiads of the peoples of the USSR.

 

Between 1970 and 1984, the department was headed by a talented, versatile athlete and outstanding organizer of the sports movement in our republic, Bahi Ledegenovich Yelgundiyev. He is a former champion of the republic in boxing, wrestling, swimming, modern pentathlon. The winner of the Soviet Union in swimming on the side, bronze medalist of the Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR in modern pentathlon. Distinguished coach of the Kazakh SSR in modern pentathlon. Judge of the All-Union category on modern pentathlon. The first in the world (1957) issued methodical developments on swimming in the Kazakh language. The first kazakh in the world was awarded the title of Assistant Professor of Swimming of   the  VACussr. On the basis of the school, a large educational, methodical and scientific work of teachers and students was carried out.

A.P. Gut, V.V. Grigorovich, I.V. Goloha, N.A. worked with him at the  department. Matsko, O.K. Legalov, L.M. Sarsenov,  A.I. Nekritzukhin,     A.M. Yudanov,  N.K. Baranov,  T.M. Safonievskaya, A.M.Inozemtsev,  D.U. Bisembayeva,  T.M. Gubenko,  N.A. Mikhailov,  E.G. Bresler,

	A.M. Zhdanov – Distinguished Coach of the Republic in diving, judge of the all-union category, coach of the national team of the republic in diving;
	D.U. Bisembayeva – the world’s first Cossack Ph.D. in swimming, assistant professor, the first in the republic became Honored coach of swimming among girls;
	From 1984 to 1995, the department was headed by Kalen Baksiekovic Akhmedov – Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Graduate of Moscow State University in the Department of Physiology and Graduation Scic KazIFK Russian on swimming. I.V. Goloha, A.M. Yudanov, I.A. Earthansky, A.M.Inozemtsev,  T.M.Gubenko,  D.U. Bisembayeva, B.T.Yelgundiyev, A.G. Natalov,S. Makashev, laboratory technicians  N.A. Matsko, T.A. Klimenko, D.K. Nurmukhanbetova.
	From 2014 to 2018 Zhumanova A.S., Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Scientific Secretary of Scientific and Dissertation Council headed the Department of Gymnastics and Swimming
	From 2018 to the present day, the head of the Department of Gymnastics and Swimming is Yermakhanova A.B. PhD, MSMK in artistic swimming. 2-time bronze medalist of the Asian Summer Games, 3-time bronze medalist of the Asian Championships, absolute champion of Kazakhstan, finalist of the World Aquatics Championships

As well as at the department worked masters, mastes of sports of international class in synchronized swimming, participant of the Olympic Games Ainur Kerey, master of sports in modern pentathlon Aliya Kolbekova, master of sports of international class in synchronized swimming 2 times Asian Games bronze medalist (2010,2014) Yermakhanova A.B.