Theoretical foundations of youth and sports in Ukraine backup

Purpose: studying of theoretical principles of youth and reserve sport. Materials and methods: monographs, thesis, authors’ abstracts of thesis, scientific articles, publications; methods: analysis of literary sources and documents, methods of analysis of systematic analysis. Results: On the basis of analysis of scientific papers of leading scientific of soviet and modern period such as B. Ashmarin, V. Bal’sevich, T. Bondar, O. Borisova, V. Volkov, V. Filin, O. Vaceba, A. Nesterova, I. Prikhod’ko, G. Putyatina, S. Rodak, S. Stadnik, L. Chekhovska, O. Shinkaruk and others; conceptual positions of the youth and reserve sports, its structure and features of development are exposed. Conclusions: compiling of the materials will contribute to a subsequent scientific search in the direction of perfection of the youth and reserve sport in Ukraine.