Lviv State University of Physical Culture named after Ivan Bobersky is a higher educational institution
of the IV level of accreditation
In 1946, the Lviv State Institute of Physical Culture was established on the basis of the Physical Culture College. In 2006, by order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Lviv State University of Physical Culture was established. Its structure includes five faculties: Faculty of Physical Education; Faculty of Sports; Faculty of Human Health; Faculty of Tourism; Faculty of Advanced Training, Retraining, Postgraduate and Correspondence Education. Students study in three buildings, where, in addition to educational auditoriums, there are specialized sports halls. The educational process at the university is carried out by 25 departments, which employ 34 professors, doctors of sciences, 141 candidates of sciences, associate professors, 50 masters of sports and masters of sports of international class, 23 referees of national and international categories, 7 honored workers of physical culture and sports, 2 honored workers of education of Ukraine, 1 honored worker of science and technology of Ukraine, 13 honored trainers of Ukraine, 1 honored teacher of Ukraine, 1 honored worker of culture of Ukraine.
Among more than 20 thousand graduates of LSUFC – more than 400 honored trainers, honored teachers, honored workers of physical culture of Ukraine, as well as more than 200 winners and prize-winners of the Olympic Games, world and European championships. It is no exaggeration to say that the pride of Ukrainian and world sports are our students and graduates, including Viktor Chukarin and Bohdan Makuts (gymnastics), Igor Ter-Hovhannesyan, Yuriy Kutenko, Vitaliy Chornobay, Dmytro Demianuk (athletics), Gennady Androsov, Farid Dosayev, Gennady Prokopenko (swimming), Pavlo Lednyov (modern pentathlon), Oleksandr Bilyavskyi, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Anna Muzychuk (chess), Vasyl Bereza and Mykhailo Slyvinskyi (rowing), Vasyl Stankovych, Viktor Sidyak, Yana Shemyakina, Oleg Shturbabin, Dmytro Boyko, Anfisa Pochkalova, Rostyslav Hertsyk, Claude Younes (fencing), Rostyslav Zaulichnyi, Andriy Kotelnyk, Oleksandr Usyk, Yevhen Khytrov (boxing), Igor Shymechko (weightlifting), Ivan Freidun (pow airlifting), Markiyan Ivashko, Lyudmila Arzhannikova, Dmytro Grachev, Kateryna Palekha (archery), Olena Pidgrushna (biathlon), Kateryna Grigorenko (skiing), Oleksandr Petriv, Roman Bondaruk, Yulia Korostylyova, Artur Ayvazyan (shotgun shooting), Vadym Tyshchenko, Andriy Bal, Andriy Gusin, Stepan Yurchyshyn (football) and many, many others. In particular, in 2007, at the World Universiade in Bangkok, students of the Lviv State University of Physical Culture won 5 medals, 3 of which were gold. In Beijing, at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in 2008, master’s student Oleksandr Petriv and university graduate Artur Ayvazyan won gold. At the XXX Olympic Games in 2012 in London, graduate students of the Lviv State University of Physical Culture Yana Shemyakina and Oleksandr Usyk added two gold medals to Ukraine’s treasury. In 2014, at the XXII Winter Olympic Games, a graduate student of the LDUFK Olena Pidgrushna won a gold medal as part of the Ukrainian women’s biathlon team. Since 1985, the university has successfully operated a postgraduate program, and since 2002, a specialized academic council for the defense of candidate theses in all industry specialties. And since 2011, doctoral studies have been opened here and a specialized academic council for the defense of theses in two specialties: «Olympic and professional sports» and «Physical culture, physical education of different population groups». In 2008, the LDUFK Research Institute was created, and in 2010, the University of the Third Age. Also, comprehensive scientific groups of national teams of Ukraine in various sports operate on the basis of the LDUFK. Lviv State University publishes three professional publications: a collection of scientific papers «Young Sports Science of Ukraine» (founded in 1996); a scientific electronic publication «Sports Science of Ukraine» (2005); a periodical journal «Physical Activity, Health and Sport» (2010).
The university has established relations with organizations and higher education institutions in Poland, Slovenia, the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Belarus, Georgia, and Moldova. Since 1998, LSUFC has been a member of the European Network of Sports Science, Education, and Employment (ENSSEE); since 2001, it has been a collective member of the International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport, and Dance (ICHPER-SD); since 2002, it has been a member of the Association of Physical Education Universities of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Since 2009, Lviv State University of Physical Culture has been training foreign citizens. In the same year, a new specialization was opened – «Choreography». The prospects for the development of the university are associated with its European integration and establishment as an educational and methodological, scientific and research and sports and artistic center of Ukraine and Europe.