Young Pioneers at a Young Pioneer camp in Kazakh SSR

Monument in a pioneer camp

Young Pioneer camp (Russian: Пионерский лагерь) was the name for the vacation or summer camp of Young Pioneers. The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (Қазақ Кеңестік Социалистік Республикасы Qazaq Keñestik Socialistik Respublikasi; Казахская A monument is a structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of past Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Lists of holidays The words holiday or vacation have related meanings in different English-speaking countries and continents but will usually refer to one of Summer camp is a supervised Program for Children and/or Teenagers conducted (usually during the Summer Months in some countries A pioneer movement is an organization for children operated by a communist party In the 20th century these camps existed in many socialist countries, particularly in the Soviet Union. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991

The Young Pioneer camps of the Soviet Union were the place of vacation for children from the Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union during summer and winter holidays. The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union, also Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization ( Russian: Всесою́зная пионе́рская организа́ция The first All-Union Young Pioneer camp, Artek was formed on June 16, 1925. Artek ( Арте́к) was an All-Union and international Young Pioneer camp in the Soviet Union. Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Young Pioneer camp phenomenon grew in popularity and in the USSR there existed approximately forty thousand Young Pioneer camps in 1973. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Approximately 9,300,000 children had vacations in these camps that year. 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). Natural history is the Scientific research of Plants or Animals leaning more towards the Observational than Experimental methods A geologist is a contributor to the Science of Geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth and planets of the solar system 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 All-Union Young Pioneer camp Artek (near Gurzuf), republican camps: Orlyonok (near Tuapse, Russian SFSR, opened in 1960), Okean (near Vladivostok, Russian SFSR, opened in 1983) Molodaya Gvardiya (near Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) and Zubryonok (in Minsk Oblast, Byelorussian SSR). Artek ( Арте́к) was an All-Union and international Young Pioneer camp in the Soviet Union. Gurzuf (Гурзуф Гурзуф Gurzuf is a resort in Crimea, Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea. Orlyonok ( Russian: Орлёнок, Eaglet in English) was one of the main Soviet Young Pioneer camps in the past and is the Tuapse (Туапсе́ ТIуапсэ is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the northeast shore of the Black Sea, south Vladivostok ( is Russia 's largest port city on the Pacific Ocean and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai. ODESSA which stands for the German phrase O rganisation d er e hemaligen SS - A ngehörigen which in turn translates The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or the Ukrainian SSR was one of the 15 constituent republics that made up the Former Soviet Union from its Minsk Voblast (Province or Minsk Oblast (Мі́нская во́бласць 'mʲinskaja 'vobɫasʲtsʲ Минская о́бласть Minskaya Oblast) is The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (abbreviated as Byelorussian SSR or BSSR) (Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка It was very difficult to apply for accommodation to the main camps, especially to Artek, as they were very popular.

In 1977 a group of Canadian teens and pre-teens from across Canada were sent to the Soviet Young Pioneer camp, Orlyonok. The book Lost in Moscow by Kirsten Koza details their unusual escapades at this elite summer camp in the USSR.

In East Germany the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation built a pioneer camp (known as a "pioneer republic") in 1952 at Werbellinsee north-east of Berlin. The German Democratic Republic ( GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR; commonly known in English as East Germany) was a Socialist state The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14 in Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. It was based on the Artek. It was considered a privilege to be chosen to go to this camp; every year about 1,000 pioneers were chosen to go there.

See also

• Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union
• Artek
• Orlyonok

External links

• www.kirstenkoza.comWebsite of author Kirsten Koza, includes photographs of Soviet Young Pioneers in uniform at summer camp
• Lost in Moscow