Outdoor Cossack Games: Preserving Traditional Culture in Ethnopedagogy

The article reveals the traditions of folk pedagogy for the civic-patriotic education of the younger generation, the formation of their physical culture, strength and stamina, preparation for labor, and, if necessary, for military activities based on the practice of the Kuban Cossacks. Active Cossack games are considered as one of the means of physical and moral education of a child - the future successor of the Cossack traditions. Examples of various outdoor games are given, the conditions and features of their organization with primary schoolchildren are described.