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Russian Boys' Activities: Summer Camp


Figure 1.--Here we see a Soviet summer day care in 1925. The Cyrilic script on the photograph is the address where the center was located, "Summer playground. 3d Meschanskaya street, house no 38".
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We have chronicled the terrible crimes of the Soviet Union. There were some Soviet progrms that were positive. Many of these related to children. Soviet policy creatly expanded the school system and educational opportunity. They also instituted dy care for workers' families. Thus included summer day care when school was not in session. We do not at this time have any information on the evolution of these programs. They were programs unavailable to workingclkass families before the Revolution. We suspect they are programs which began at major industrial plants and then were adopted by the state for a nation-wide effort. The facilities and arrangements varied widely. Often plants created day care and recreational facilities for workers and their families. This might be seen as summer day camp in the United States. The Soviets eventuaslly created a huge summer camp program, although much of this occurred after World War II. It was a program created through the Young Pioneer program which eventully provided every child the opportunity to attend summer camp at virtually no cost. We do not yet have much information on these programs with the exception of the Young Pioneer summer camp program.

Soviet Schools

We have chronicled the terrible crimes of the Soviet Union. There were some Soviet progrms that were positive. Many of these related to children. Soviet policy creatly expanded the school system and educational opportunity.

Day Care

They also instituted dy care for workers' families. Thus included summer day care when school was not in session. We do not at this time have any information on the evolution of these programs. They were programs unavailable to workingclkass families before the Revolution. We suspect they are programs which began at major industrial plants and then were adopted by the state for a nation-wide effort. The facilities and arrangements varied widely. Often plants created day care and recreational facilities for workers and their families.

Summer Day Care/Day Camps

This might be seen as summer day camp in the United States. A Russian reader writes, "'Summer playground' is the form of the summer camp based on a city school or kindergarden. There were not enough summercamps in the smaller cities and rural areas, moreover, not all of them had a well-established suppliement of food, especially pre-war era. 'Summer playgrounds' were placed in a school buildings. In the morning children went to a playground, visited cinema, read books, played and so on, in the evening they returned to their homes. Often children helped to repair school furniture, work onn visual aids, textbooks, clean schoolyard and so on. Children ate in a school dining-hall, and beds for naps stood in classrooms instead of tables."

Summer Camp

The Soviets eventuaslly created a huge summer camp program, although much of this occurred after World War II. It was a program created through the Young Pioneer program which eventully provided every child the opportunity to attend summer camp at virtuallu no cost. We do not yet have much information on these programs with the exception of the Young Pioneer summer camp program. Soviet publications when describing the summer camp program almost always depicted the showcase camps in the Crimea on the Black Sea. There were in fact hundrds of camps located throughout the country. These camps did not have the facilities of the Black Sea camps so were rarely depicted in Soviet publications. Even so virtually evert child who wanted to go to summer camp could do so.





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