The Belarusian State University of Physical Culture grew up from a small physical education college, in which several dozen students studied in 1929.
In 1937, after the triumphant performance of students of technical college at the All-Union Parade in Moscow by the resolution of the CEC of the USSR for the preparation of qualified physical education personnel and high sports physical education achievements Belarusian Technical School of Physical Culture was awarded the order of the Working Red Banner and reorganized into BSSR Institute of Physical Culture.
Today BSUPC is a modern educational, scientific-research, information-culture center with a rich past, reliable present and future prospects in which multi-level training is carried out, preparation and further training of specialists in the field of physical culture, sports and tourism. Great attention is paid at the university to improving the quality of education, patriotic and moral education of the young generation, forming students’ motivation for a healthy lifestyle.
The structure of the university includes two sports-pedagogical faculties — mass sports and sports games and martial arts, the faculty of health physical culture, the Institute of Sport and Tourism Management, Institute of improvement and retraining of executives and specialists of physical culture, sports and tourism, center «Higher school of coaches». Also at the university there is a preparatory department, master’s degree, postgraduate degree, doctoral degree, council on defense of dissertations, joint Belarusian-Chinese project «Institute of Confucius» BSUPC and scientific and educational cluster «Intelligent technologies in sport».
International scientific congresses, conferences and seminars are held at the university. Multifunctional sports facilities are the training base of students and host large, including international, competitions in various sports, national festivals, youth forums. For the comfort of students, the university has three dormitories.
Special pride of the university — its graduates, who forever wrote their names in the history of Belarusian and world sports: Alexander Medved, Elena Belova, Yekaterina Karsten, Lyubov Cherkashin, Alexander and Andrew Bogdanovich, Alina Gornojko, Ivan Litvinovich and many other awarded athletes. During the more than 85-year history of the university, its students and graduates have been raised to the Olympic pedestal more than one hundred and fifty times.
Every year, more than a thousand highly qualified professionals who work successfully in the field of physical culture, sports and tourism, education, health institutions and other organizations of the Republic of Belarus come out of the university.
Despite its rich history, the Belarusian State University of Physical Culture is a young soul. And above all thanks to the unguessable energy of the most athletic and talented students!
We invite to our university all those who wish to increase the sports fame and scientific potential of our country, as well as proposals for cooperation and partnership from Belarusian and foreign institutions of higher and secondary education.
Welcome to BSUPC!