(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.
In the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany, two pioneer physical educators â Johann Friedrich GutsMuths (1759â1839) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778â1852) â created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics.