The article is devoted to the current problems of developing motivation among students for additional independent physical education and sports, as a means of developing moral, social and patriotic qualities. The multifaceted activities of teachers of the Department of Physical Education of the Ural State University of Transport, aimed at developing the most important general cultural and professional competencies of future railway transport engineers, are described. In the presented work, new directions for the development of sports and mass work at a university are studied using the example of USURT.
mass sports work, motivation, student, physical culture and sports, university
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