Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health

The Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health is a university in St. Petersburg, Russia, named after Peter Lesgaft.

History
Its history started from 1896, when Peter Lesgaft founded a training program for PE teachers.

It consists of following colleges:


 * Institute of Adaptive Physical Culture
 * Institute of Sports Facilities and Industries
 * Institute of Economics and Social Technology
 * Institute of International sports Programs
 * Institute of Health and Sports Medicine

and the following faculties:


 * Faculty Summer Olympic Sports
 * Faculty of Winter Olympic Sports
 * Faculty of non-Olympic sports
 * Faculty of martial arts
 * Faculty of Economics, Management and Law
 * Faculty individual educational and sports technology
 * Faculty of Basic Training
 * Faculty profiled training
 * Faculty training and retraining
 * Faculty training of the teaching staff (postgraduate and doctoral studies)
 * Faculty teaching and professional practice
 * Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
 * Preparatory Faculty

It is also the publisher of the magazine Scientific notes University Lesgaft and the newspaper Lesgaftovets ("For physical training cadres").

Sports teams
A team representing this university was the runner-up for the first edition of the Soviet Cup in bandy in 1937.