This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a Soviet government decision to expand physical culture and sports in the Soviet Union. It stipulates that the physical culture movements should be genuinely national in character, and that it should be carefully integrated in a scientifically organized system of physical training adapted to every age group in the population. Physical training of the young will henceforth take place principally in the schools. Increased allocations are called for to allow sports and physical culture to expand in the schools, ensuring the availability of necessary equipment. The improvement in facilities for physical activities is to be accompanied by the creation, over the next few years, of physical training programs in all schools, with full-time instructors who will also conduct after school sport activities . All schools are to have at least two physical training periods a week. Rural communities are expected to develop physical culture facilities to implement the expansion of sports and physical activities. Production of sporting goods must improve in quality. Better use should be made of existing athletic facilities. (Author/GDB)