Acting Head of Department: Associate Professor, Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Physical Education and Sport, Oleksandr Ivanovych Halashko

The course in Physical Education at the then Lviv Veterinary Institute was introduced on September 1, 1940, alongside the program of military training for students. The Department itself was established as an independent structural unit in 1949. At that time, the teaching staff consisted of four lecturers: Adolf Samoilovych Sehner, Oleksandr Ivanovych Boiko, Borys Stepanovych Zaporozhskyi, and, beginning in 1951, Vasyl Vasylovych Solomonko. During the 1950–1951 academic year, the department also employed Master of Sport Volodymyr Stanislavovych Keller, a globally renowned scholar in the theory and methodology of sport, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Honored Coach, and Honored Worker of Science of Ukraine.

In 2017, the department was headed by Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (PhD), Associate Professor, Master of Sport of Ukraine, and National Category Judge Bohdan S. Semeniv. He is the author and co-author of 37 scientific articles and 8 educational-methodological works in the field of physical culture and sport, including 9 publications indexed in international scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science. His textbook Specialized Physical Training of Students received the official approval of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. His primary research focuses on the field of physical culture and sport among student youth.

Over different periods, the University has hosted All-Union and All-Ukrainian competitions among agrarian higher education institutions in handball, football, basketball, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. Other major events included the Ukrainian Championships in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, belt wrestling “Alysh,” weightlifting, and traditional Ukrainian belt wrestling, as well as national futsal student tournaments among colleges and technical schools.

In 2021, the First World Championship in Ukrainian belt wrestling was held at the Stepan Gzhytskyi Lviv National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies.

The University has trained:

• 1 Honored Master of Sport of Ukraine,
• 5 Masters of Sport of Ukraine of International Class,
• 58 Masters of Sport of the USSR and Ukraine.

Currently, among enrolled students there are:

• 5 Masters of Sport of Ukraine of International Class,
• 16 Masters of Sport of Ukraine,
• 27 Candidate Masters of Sport of Ukraine,
• 9 members of Ukraine’s national teams.

The Department of Physical Education, Sport, and Health provides instruction in the following disciplines: Fundamentals of Theory and Methods of Physical Education; Introduction to the Specialty and History of Sport; Gymnastics with Teaching Methods; Active Games with Teaching Methods; Theory and Methodology of a Chosen Sport; Theory and Methodology of Children’s and Youth Sports; Athletics with Teaching Methods; Sports Games with Teaching Methods (handball, football, volleyball, table tennis); Weight Training and Strength Sports; Advanced Sports Mastery; Sports Facilities; Theory and Methodology of Adaptive Physical Education; Human Anatomy with Basics of Dynamic Morphology; Human Physiology and Physiological Foundations of Physical Education; Theory and Methods of Teaching Winter Sports; Olympic and Professional Sport; Physical Education (basic, preparatory, and special medical groups).

Contacts

Address: 50 Pekarska street, Lviv, 79010, Ukraine

Phone: 38(032) 239-26-63

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