All-Union Council on Physical Culture and Sports

The All-Union Council on Physical Culture and Sports (Russian: Всесоюзный совет физической культуры) was a main body of Soviet executive power in physical culture and sports originally established in August 1920 as part of the Soviet vsevobuch (Main directorate of General Military Education of the Russian People's Commissariat on War).

In 1936 it was transformed into an All-Union committee and a State committee.

At first it was established as interdepartamental commission that included representatives of , , , trade unions, Russian League of Communist Youth (RKSM, later known as Komsomol), and sports-gymnastics societies. It also was a consultative agency to Vseobuch.^[1] Since 1923 and until 1936 it was a special agency of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.

Its main duties included

development and review of programs, provisions, regulations, and guidelines on physical education;
organization and holding of sports competitions;
general management of sports organizations;
preparation of physical culture cadres (staff);
monitoring of the physical education of students;
medical control over the health of those engaged in physical culture and sports.

All-Union Council on Physical Culture[]

All-Union Council on Physical Culture	Period in office
Nikolai Podvoisky^[a]	1920–1923
Nikolai Semashko^[b]	1923–1926
	1926–1930
Nikolai Antipov	1930–1934
Vasiliy Mantsev	1934–1936

After 1936, the All-Union council on Physical Culture was transformed into the All-Union Committee on Physical Culture and Sports in 1936–1953 and 1954–1959.

After 1968 it was known as Sportkomitet and Goskomsport.

In 1953–1954 it was part of the Ministry of Healthcare and in 1959–1968 it was governed by the Union of Sports Societies and Organizations (SSOO).