Sport

During the reporting period, the city sports committee held 54 city sports and mass events; the city's physical culture and sports organization took part in 18 types of the program of the II Summer Sports Games of the region, in which it confidently won first place. UAH 70 thousand were spent on holding competitions and participating in regional competitions. The city has 11 children's and youth sports schools and more than 30 public organizations of physical culture and sports orientation. About 560 employees are involved in the sector, with an average salary of UAH 430. In 2003, twice, in fulfillment of the Cabinet of Ministers Resolution, physical fitness testing was conducted in all preschool and educational institutions of the city, covering more than 42 thousand people.

Paid services are provided to the population through physical culture and sports means, in particular, subscription groups operate in the central swimming pool, the "Dynamo" sports complex, the technical university, and secondary school No. 26. In the central pool, in summer, everyone could use the services of a solarium and gym. In 2002, paid services worth UAH 505 thousand were provided, and in 2003, worth more than UAH 700 thousand.

The city's 11 children's and youth sports schools cultivate 21 sports; 5,625 people train in sections, including 1,577 girls. Analysis shows that the number of people engaged in sports is stable and amounts to approximately 18 percent of the total number of children and adolescents in the city. During the reporting period, the following were trained: 151 first-category athletes, 63 candidates for master of sports, and 15 masters of sports.

The city's team won the regional youth games and the 11th Summer Sports Games of Volyn. Lutsk athletes make up 95% of the region's teams competing in all-Ukrainian competitions.

Certain work is being carried out to strengthen the sector's material and technical base: stained-glass windows in the central swimming pool have been replaced; there are also plans to replace the water disinfection system and install a suspended ceiling; a major reconstruction of the "Avangard" stadium is ongoing; a new gym has started operating at OJSC "Elektrotermometriya"; the network of tennis courts has expanded; and repairs have been carried out in all local community clubs.

The Committee for Physical Culture and Sports plans to build an open 50-meter swimming pool in the city's Zavokzalnyi district, complete repairs to the swimming pool, and create a physical culture and health complex "Sport for All".