There are represented the materials of the fund of the Stalingrad Committee of Documentation Centre of the Volgograd RegionModern History in the issues of development of voluntary sports societies (VSS) of Stalingrad in the years of the first postwar plan of the USSR national economy development. There is given the statistic information of the development of VSS of the city and found out the basic results and drawbacks in the work which include the lack of professional staff.