History of the department of athletics

The mission of the Department of Athletics is to train highly qualified specialists in various athletics disciplines in accordance with the needs of the labor market in the field of physical education and sport. In order to ensure high-quality instruction, academy students are provided with in-depth knowledge.

Currently, the Department of Athletics employs 6 instructors and 1 laboratory assistant. Among the faculty members, there is 1 Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, 2 master’s degree holders, and 3 senior lecturers. Since 2020, the Department of Athletics has been headed by Khaldar Kambarovich Untaev, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences and Associate Professor of the department.

V. I. Akimov and the faculty of the department have supervised candidate and doctoral dissertations at a high level. V. I. Akimov has made a significant contribution to academic work, serving for several years as the chair of the commission for republican student research projects.

In 1949, the Department of Skiing was established, which became the foundation for the current department. It was headed by Sergey Sergeyevich Girzhon. From 1950 to 1952, the department was led by Master of Sports I. Yu. Fedosov. After that, for two years the department was headed by Muratkhan Tanikeevich Tanikeev, who graduated in 1947 from the P. F. Lesgaft Leningrad Institute of Physical Culture. In the following years, he studied the history of sport and later became a professor and Doctor of Sciences.

From 1954 to 1967, the head of the Department of Skiing was Associate Professor Gennady Matveyevich Tereshchenko, a participant in World War II. In 1967, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences Semyon Aristarkhovich Laktionov was elected head of the department and held this position until 1975. In 1975, Pyotr Antonovich Delver was elected head of the department. After graduating from the institute in 1958, he remained at the department as one of its top graduates — a multiple-time winner in alpine skiing, participant and prizewinner of All-Union competitions, a multiple-time winner of international competitions and student championships. This is not a complete list of his sporting achievements in alpine skiing.