Young Pioneer camp
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(Russia, city Togliatti)
(Russia, city Togliatti)
(Russia, city Togliatti)
Young Pioneer camp (Russian: Пионерский лагерь) was the name for the vacation or summer camp of Young Pioneers. In the 20th century these camps existed in many socialist countries, particularly in the Soviet Union.
The Young Pioneer camps of the Soviet Union were the place of vacation for children from the
History
The first All-Union Young Pioneer camp, Artek was formed on June 16, 1925.[1] The Young Pioneer camp phenomenon grew in popularity and in 1973 approximately forty thousand Young Pioneer camps existed in the USSR. In that year, approximately 9,300,000 children had vacations in these camps. There were different types of camps: sanitation camps, sports camps, tourist camps, thematic camps (for young technicians, young naturalists, young geologists and children of other potential careers). Generally speaking if parents wanted their child or children to go to one of these Young Pioneer camps, they had to pay a fee to apply for accommodation in the camp. However, typically the state organization where the parent worked "sponsored" the child by allotting the worker's child a place in the camp free of charge to the parent or parents as an incident to the parent's employment.
The main Young Pioneer camps of the Soviet Union were
Western children also sometimes attended Soviet Young Pioneer camps, including children from Canada in the 1970s.[2]
In
See also
- Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union
- Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation
- Pioneers Palace
References
- ^ "EAD Finding Aid: World of Children in the USSR". IDC Publishers. 2007. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24.
- ^ Koza, Kirsten. "A Travel Book: Lost in Moscow". kirstenkoza.com. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
External links
- Carl Bromwich. "I went to a Soviet Union Pioneer camp 1970s".
