Physical Culture and Sports Committee of the Soviet Union

The Physical Culture and Sports Committee under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (Russian: Комитет по физической культуре и спорту при Совете министров СССР, earlier known as the All-Union Council on Physical Culture and Sports (Russian: Всесоюзный совет физической культуры) was a main body of Soviet executive power in physical culture and sports originally established in August 1920 as part of the Soviet vsevobuch (Main directorate of General Military Education of the Russian People's Commissariat on War).

In 1936 it was transformed into an All-Union committee and a State committee.

At first it was established as interdepartamental commission that included representatives of Vseobuch, People's Commissariat of Enlightenment, People's Commissariat of Healthcare, trade unions, Russian League of Communist Youth (RKSM, later known as Komsomol), and sports-gymnastics societies. It also was a consultative agency to Vseobuch. Since 1923 and until 1936 it was a special agency of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.

Its main duties included

• development and review of programs, provisions, regulations, and guidelines on physical education;
• organization and holding of sports competitions;
• general management of sports organizations;
• preparation of physical culture cadres (staff);
• monitoring of the physical education of students;
• medical control over the health of those engaged in physical culture and sports.