Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism

Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism (SCOLIPE) (Российский государственный университет физической культуры, спорта, молодёжи и туризма (ГЦОЛИФК)) is a university in Moscow, founded in 1918.

Names

 * 1918 – Moscow State University of Physical Education
 * 1920 – State Central Institute of Physical Education (SCIPE)
 * 1934 – State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education (SCOLIPE)
 * 1937 – State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education "Marshal Joseph Stalin"
 * 1961 – State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education (SCOLIPE)
 * 1993 – Russian State Academy of Physical Education (RSAPE)
 * 2001 – Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism (RSUPESY&T)

Notable alumni
Many graduates are European, World, Olympic and Paralympic champions:

Concentration

 * Athletics: Valery Brumel, Svetlana Kriveleva, Natalia Lisovskaya, Pyotr Bolotnikov
 * Biathlon: Olga Zaitseva, Anfisa Reztsova
 * Bobsleigh: Alexey Negodaylo
 * Chess: Yuri Balashov, Viktor Bologan, Miron Sher


 * Cycling: Yuri Kashirin
 * Diving: Elena Vaytsekhovskaya
 * Fencing: Sergey Bida, Aleksey Frosin, Valentina Rastvorova, Sergey Sharikov, David Tyshler
 * Figure skating:Irina Rodnina, Andrey Bukin, Natalia Bestemianova, Anna Semenovich, Irina Slutskaya, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Sergei Grinkov, Maria Butyrskaya, Gennady Karponosov, Irina Moiseeva, Alexandra Trusova.
 * Football: Lev Yashin, Dmitri Sychev, Devidas Shemberas
 * Judo: Dmitriy Nosov
 * Hockey: Aleksey Morozov, Alexander Ovechkin, Ilya Kovalchuk, Pavel Bure, Valery Kharlamov,
 * Rowing: Alexander Timoshinin
 * Skiing: Olga Zavyalova
 * Speed skating: Oleg Goncharenko, Svetlana Zhurova
 * Synchronized swimming: Olga Brusnikina
 * Wrestling: Boris Gurevich, Nikolai Balboshin
 * Weightlifting: David Adamovich Rigert

Other

 * Andrey Guryev, billionaire, former CEO of PhosAgro

Notable faculty

 * David Tyshler (1927–2014), Ukrainian/Soviet Olympic bronze medalist fencer

Chess
Grigory Goldberg (1908–1976), in 1966, was the founding head of the postbaccalaureate program in chess which initially was organized as an academic specialization of the institution. In 1974, the specialization program was upgraded to the Chess Department that offered a Master of Sport in Chess. The chess program is chronicled as the first in the history of higher education.

The Master of Sports in Chess should not be confused with the title and rank, Master of Sports of the USSR in Chess, which was established for men in 1934 and for women in 1950. From 1934 through 1987, the USSR conferred 1,061 Master of Sport in Chess titles – 904 to men and 157 to women. The Master of Sport of the USSR was a nationally distinguished rank and title for many major sports of the former Soviet Union.