Department of Physical Training and Sport

The Department of Physical Education and Sports was established at the Gomel State Medical Institute in 1990. Initially, it was called the Department of Physical Education and Health. Its first head was the Honored Coach of the BSSR, Aleksander Aleksandrovich Shevyako. In 1991, the department's teaching staff was joined by F.I. Shilak, T.E. Serebrova, N.V. Yankovich, A.V. Rubtsov, I.P. Leonov, M.Y. Kulikova.

Aleksander Aleksandrovich Shevyako

During A.A. Shevyako's tenure, the quality of specialist training improved significantly, and the material and technical base was updated. In the 1992/1993 academic year, students began participating in city and republican interuniversity competitions in cross-country running and kettlebell lifting.

2000 Department staff (from left to right), first row: N. I. Ivanovskaya, M. Y. Kulikova, A.I. Gorbach;

second row: F. I. Shilak, A. A. Shevyako, T. E. Serebrova, A. N. Vasilets, N. V. Yankovich, S. A. Fedortsova.

From February 2001 to February 2004, the department was headed by Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor Valery Antonovich Medvedev. During this period, the department actively conducted research work. The head of the department and her staff developed physical education and wellness technologies for students of the special department (special medical group), conducted research in the format of the program "Children of Belarus" and the subprogram "Children of Chernobyl".

Valery Antonovich Medvedev

V.A. Medvedev defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation (Ph.D. equivalent) in 1983. Its topic was: "Biomechanical Justification for Optimizing the Methodology of Teaching Complex Vaults to Gymnasts." In 1987, he was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor (Docent). Following the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster, V. A. Medvedev researched the influence of physical exercises on the organisms of children and adolescents under conditions of radioactive environmental contamination. He developed the conceptual foundations of physical culture and health-improvement programs for the physical education of schoolchildren and students. In 2000, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences on the topic: "Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Improving the Health of Schoolchildren by Means of Physical Culture and Sports under Conditions of Radiation Contamination of the Environment." V. A. Medvedev became the first Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences in the fields of theory and methodology of physical education, sports training, and health-improving physical culture in the Gomel Region. He was a specialist in the biomechanics of sports exercises, health-improving, and adaptive physical culture.

V.A. Medvedev is a Laureate of the Skaryna Scientific Readings (2001) and has been awarded certificates of honor by the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of the Byelorussian SSR.

He has published over 200 works, including 4 monographs, 2 invention patents, and more than 60 scientific articles. He is the author of more than 10 textbooks, numerous methodological recommendations, lecture courses, and special course curricula.

2003 Department staff (from left to right), first row: A.I. Gorbach, O.P. Markevich, V.A. Timofeeva, V.A. Medvedev,

N.A. Sergeychik, N.N. Gavrilovich; second row: V.N. Dvorak, K.Y. Romanov, T.V. Karlyuk,

M.Y. Kulikova, A.N. Vasilets, A.V. Chevelev, S.A. Fedortsova, D.A. Kovalev.

In 2004, Kirill Yurievich Romanov, Candidate of Medical Sciences, was appointed acting head of the department.

Kirill Yurievich Romanov

Since February 2005, the department has been headed by Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor Galina Vladimirovna Novik.

Galina Vladimirovna Novik

During this period, the physical culture and health-improving, educational, research, and sports activities reached a new qualitative level. Students train in specialized sports groups in 12 disciplines: basketball, volleyball, and futsal (for men and women); handball (men's); arm wrestling; table tennis; swimming; aerobics; tourism; chess; kettlebell lifting; badminton.

Annually, the university's student national teams, representing these specialized sports groups, successfully participate in Universiades, Rector's Cups of Belarusian Medical Universities, and city, regional, and national competitions of various levels. Among the best university athletes can be noted: Bunyatova Lisa master of sports in sports aerobics, Ochapovskiy Dmitriy candidate master of sports in volleyball, Baretskov Daniil candidate master of sports in swimming, Volosovskaya Tatyana, Degtyareva Anastasia master of sports in armwrestling.

This period is characterized by the multifaceted activities of the department's staff. Their contribution to the physical culture and sports work of Gomel State Medical University (hereinafter referred to as GSMU) has been recognized with numerous awards.

Among the staff who worked at the department from 2005 to 2024 are: Candidates of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professors K.Y. Romanov, M.V. Konyakhin, A.E. Bondarenko, V.L. Tsarankov; Senior Lecturers T.F. Gerkusova, N.N. Gavrilovich, A.N. Vasilets, T.V. Karlyuk, M.Y. Kulikova; Lecturers A.V. Chevelev, D.A. Kovalev, N.A. Sergeichik, A.I. Gorbach, O.P. Markevich, and others