(The Program see here). Departure from Yakutsk down the Lena River (see the map). Viluy River. Here the Viluy River flows into the Lena River. The Viluy is 2,450km long and ends in the Viluy Sea. Zhigansk. is the first settlement beyond the Polar Circle.
Jahnâs techniques became so popular that his gymnastics techniques were adopted by the US military toward the end of the 19th century to improve hand-to-hand combat skills. Gymnastics earned a spot in the first summer Olympic games in 1896 and has been an Olympic sport ever since.
educator Johann Guts Muths developed a system of therapeutic gymnastics designed to maintain physical condition and health.6 He was soon followed by fellow German physical educator Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, who created a gymnastics system called turnen, which can be roughly translated as âmovement.â7 Also during the early 1800s, Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swedish instructor of gymnastics, used anatomic and physiologic principles to restructure the gymnastics system developed by Muths.