"Retrofisra": 1895-1937

Many of us remember our Soviet physical education lessons - a rope, a horse, skis ... that's all. And how in the world they followed the physical development of the younger generation at the turn of the century - see our material.

(Total 19 photos)

1. German children are engaged in the snow, 1927. (A. & E. Frankl / Ullstein Bild / Getty Images)

2. Boys are engaged with dumbbells in the gymnasium, 1895. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

3. Classes at the Western High School in Washington, 1899. (Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

4. German schoolgirls are engaged on the horizontal bar, around 1900. (Wieczorek/Ullstein Bild/Getty Images)

5. Push-ups on the beach under the eyes of the crowd, around 1900. (Ullstein Bild/Getty Images)

6. Hoop exercises, Lavender Hill School for Girls, London, 1906. (London Metropolitan Archives/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

7. Pupils of Buckingham Street School, London, 1906. (London Metropolitan Archives/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

8. Pupils of Monteham Street School, London, 1906. (London Metropolitan Archives/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

9. Pupils of Buckingham Street School, London, 1906. (London Metropolitan Archives/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

10. Classes at the Crawford Street School, London, 1906. (London Metropolitan Archives/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

11. Classes at the Crawford Street School, London, 1906. (London Metropolitan Archives/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

12. Pupils of the Wilton Road School, London, 1907. (London Metropolitan Archives/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

13. Pupils of the Alma School for Boys, London, 1908. (London Metropolitan Archives/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

14. Children in a class in Germany, 1910. (Berliner Illustrations Gesellschaft / Ullstein Bild / Getty Images)

15. Classes on uneven bars, 1910. (Ullstein Bild/Getty Images)

16. German children are engaged in the snow, 1927. (A. & E. Frankl / Ullstein Bild / Getty Images)

17. German children are engaged in the snow, 1927. (A. & E. Frankl / Ullstein Bild / Getty Images)

18. Four-year-old children in a classroom in Czechoslovakia, 1930. (Keystone View / FPG / Getty Images)

19. Japanese children are engaged in a radio program in the park, 1936. (Argusphot/Ullstein Bild/Getty Images)