The article dwells on the study dealing with the history of archery formation as the type of sport in Tajikistan. The author comprehensively analyzes the evolution of competitions on archery in the history of the Tajik people beginning from arms facilities (weapons) and hunting up to sports equipment. Brief characteristics of the stages of the history of both physical culture and sports referring to the periods of the Tajik ASSR and the Tajik SSR are given. The author considers the reason due to which archery was revived as the type of sports much than later other Tajik national types of competitions. When firearm had superseded archery and arrows from the armament of the army, archery sport lost its military-applied importance. It is stressed that under the conditions of hostile environment of the Soviet power in all the USSR, Tajikistan inclusive, more attention was paid to the following types of sports: riding, bullet shooting, fighting, grenade darting, heavy athletics. In conformity with the author`s opinion, the introduction of archery sport under the conditions of Tajikistan was a major factor beset with the Tajik sport development. This thesis confirmed by significant achievements of Tajik athletes in archery referring to the 70-80-ies of the XX-th century. To sum it up, the author comes to the conclusion that archery should occupy a dignified place in the field of sports of independent Tajikistan.
archery and arrows, national games and sports, physical culture and sports in Tajikistan, archery sport, Olympic games, archers of the Soviet Tajikistan
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