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  Our Global Community: Potatoes and Soap - American Camp Association
On the positive side, camps are now authorized to recruit campers in addition to those sent by the unions and industries and to charge fees for the spaces in their camps.
He is passionate about the value of the camp experience in both countries and works tirelessly for camps in Russia and the U.S. CCUSA Counselor Marina Lukanina from Moscow calls the summers of 1999-2002, which she spent at Camp Med-o-Lark in Maine, the best summers of her life.
Camps are regulated by the Ministry of Labor and Social Development and the Ministry of Education.
www.acacamps.org /campmag/0411potatoes.php   (1457 words)

  
 Artek (camp) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Artek (Russian: Арте́к) was the All-Union and international Young Pioneer camp in the Soviet Union.
Similar distinguished pioneer camps existed under jurisdictions of individual Soviet republics, e.g, Orlyonok in Russian SFSR and Zubryonok on Byelorussian SSR.
In East Germany the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation built a pioneer camp similar to Artek in 1952 at Werbellinsee north-east of Berlin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Artek_(camp)   (529 words)

  
 Young Pioneer Camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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 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).
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.
www.infoforyou.org /input.php?title=Young_Pioneer_camp   (315 words)

  
 artek_(camp)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
It was established on June 16 1925 near the Black Sea in the town of Gurzuf located on the Crimean peninsula, at The camp first hosted eighty children but it grew rapidly.
Among honorary guests of Artek were Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Gagarin, Indira Gandhi, Urho Kekkonen, Nikita Khrushchev, Jawaharlal Nehru, Otto Schmidt, Lidia Skoblikova, Benjamin Spock, Mikhail Tal, Valentina Tereshkova, Lev Yashin.
Similar distinguished pioneer camps existed under jurisdictions of individual Soviet republics, e.g, Orlyonok in Russian SFSR and Zubryonok on Byelorussian SSR.In East Germany the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation built a pioneer camp similar to Artek in 1952 at Werbellinsee north-east of Berlin.
www.9nvesting.com /wiki/?title=Artek_(camp)   (486 words)

  
 IJswater Films - ARTEK - synopsis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
On the Crimea in the Ukraine an international summer camp is coping with Ukrain¥s new capitalist era.
ARTEK was a very exclusive camp for the Soviet youths; a paradise on the Black Sea coast.
The chosen few who were able to belong to ARTEK for a month, were regarded as the elite of the nation.
www.ijswater.nl /films/artek/artek_synopsis_en.html   (171 words)

  
 Vocation and resorts <<< ........CRIMEAN tourism
International Children's Center "Artek" is located on the coast of the Black Sea, six kilometers along the coast from the western foot of Aju-Dag Mt. up to the settlement of Gurzuf.
Yes and no. Because "Artek" is a fairy tale becoming a reality, these are light, color children's dreams without malicious heroes, where the most desirable dreams come to life.
It is possible to aspire to beat the records in the excellent stadium or to engage in navigation in open fifty-meter pool with warmed sea water, to became the captain and to take part in a regatta, to make fascinating mountain ascensions and to go down into mysterious caves.
www.tourism.crimea.ua /eng/otdih/yalta/artek   (422 words)

  
 ··• "Artek" ICC ·•· Digression to the history of the area named Artek •··
In XVI Gurzuf (a town near «Artek») was owned by Genovese merchants-knights who rebuilt the fortress after it had been destroyed by Khazars.
The Gurzuf region with the ravines of Ai-Danil, Gugush, Khasars, Artek, Akhelach, Kyzyl-Tash (Red Rock) was one of the largest administrative, economic and trade centers of the Southern Coast of Crimea.
Artek ravine is situated in a convenient Black Sea harbor and surrounded by the ancient Crimean Mountains.
www.artek.org /?ID=202102   (708 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Artek: 'A country just for kids'
The Artek camp for Young Pioneers - a mass organisation for Soviet children aged 10-15 - was built on the Crimean peninsula a few years after the formation of the USSR itself.
Located in what is now part of Ukraine, Artek is the size of a small town which slopes down to an eight-kilometre (five-mile) stretch of the Black Sea coast.
Artek was always considered the most prestigious camp for Young Pioneers.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/4157124.stm   (724 words)

  
 ··• "Artek" ICC ·•· Regulations for sending children to the International Children Centre “Artek” ...
International Children Centre "Artek" is a recreation establishment where children are given an opportunity to strengthen their health, to participate in sports competitions and in many learning and entertaining programs, to acquire experience of public work and communicating with their peers from different ountries of the world.
Fax/phone at ICC "Artek" is (38 0654) 36 3217, 36 3080 363-080;
Children are sent to certain camps of "Artek" according to the schedule of arrival in view of each camp’s filling.
www.artek.org /?ID=210102   (933 words)

  
 Lyudmila Jackson:artek
In the morning my mother and I came to the assembly point in the town of Simferopol where the other children were already with their parents.
When we were approaching Artek the pioneer leader drew our attention to a big mountain called Aju-dag which in translation from Greek meant a Bear Mountain.
The principle of the camp made a speech and then the leader of the English delegation spoke.
www.tim-jackson.co.uk /lyuda/artek.html   (1350 words)

  
 Tajikistan boys clothes activities -- international camp in the Ukrainre
The camp was originally set up in the days of the Young Pioneers but now like all the rest are independent ventures providing camping and woodcraft experience for children from Russia and the Commonwealth Countries.
Artek was not only located on the warm Black Sea coast, but it had excellent facilities.] There are many summer camps for children in this region as well as vacation resports.
Many private summer camps in America before the 1970s had uniforms, but this is no longer common in the United States, except at Scout camps.] The uniform was blue shorts and white shirt for the boys.
histclo.com /country/other/taj/act/camp/ta-camp01i.html   (1365 words)

  
 ··• "Artek" ICC ·•· Health requirements for sending children and teenagers •··
The medical card must be filled by a pediatrician or a doctor of a specialized polyclinic service for teenagers with a complete checkup of a child’s state of health.
Those who cannot stay at the camp due to the poor state of health and those who do not have a properly completed medical card ARE SENT BACK HOME with an accompanying person at the expense of the organization or the person who had directed them to "Artek".
In case of a child illness "Artek" provides him (her) with meals and health services until recovery, independently of shift termination date.
www.artek.org /?ID=210103   (427 words)

  
 BHHRG
RFE/RL Artek, the former elite camp for Young Pioneers -- the Soviet-era Communist Party youth group -- is preparing to celebrate its 80th anniversary.
At Artek, the best students and children of the Party elite from all across the Soviet Union -- and after World War II, the Eastern Bloc -- spent their summer vacations swimming, singing songs, and learning to be loyal communists.
Earlier, Artek's press service distributed a press release quoting a letter from Milla Jovovich, in which she said she very much wants to see Ukraine, which she left in 1980.
www.bhhrg.org /mediaDetails.asp?ArticleID=437   (605 words)

  
 Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation : Partnership projects
Prior to the closure of the festival, a “festival within the festival” was held in “Artek”, during which Artek campers and professional teams from Kyiv, Lviv and Donetsk were drawing on the beach graffiti on HIV/AIDS.
The camp is organized by a Charitable Association “Light of Hope”, which supports HIV-positive people, drug users, as well as specialists of HIV-service organizations and harm reduction programmes.
The initiative to create the camp belongs to the charitable organization “Light of hope” that has been managing to find financial resources for 3 years long to arrange and conduct the camp.
www.antiaids.org /en/projects/partner_projects   (1198 words)

  
 boys clothing for outdoor summer camp: country trends -- the Ukraine
An assessment of the Pioneer camps is included at this time in the general Soviet Young Pioneer camp section of HBU.
The Artek Camp in the Crimea, was a pretigious Young Pioneer Camp in the old Soviet Union.
The other is providing a religiously oriented summer camp experience for the children who are often from low-income families taht could not otherwise not afford to go to camp.
histclo.com /act/out/sum/actsc-ukr.html   (1862 words)

  
 From Russia with Love - Features
Eventually, I was sent to Crimea, to an exquisite pioneer camp, Artek.
I was placed in an international camp with children of European communist leaders.
At the pioneer camp, after lunch there is "the dead hour" - everyone has to lie down and sleep.
www.middleburycampus.com /news/2004/03/04/Features/From-Russia.With.Love-624685.shtml   (491 words)

  
 www.rian.ru
Jovovich said she was going to attend the Artek celebration with her mother.
She has heard a lot about the huge children's camp but has never been there.
Jovovich said it was a brilliant idea to celebrate the anniversary of the famous children's camp on such a large scale, as it would certainly bring political and cultural benefits to Ukraine.
en.rian.ru /culture/20050810/41130986-print.html   (248 words)

  
 Infos Ukraine: Artek, camp pionnier ukrainien de l'ère soviétique
Fondé en 1925, le camp d’Artek a pris sa véritable ampleur alors que Khrouchtchev était au pouvoir.
Pendant la guerre, le camp a été occupé par les Allemands, mais il a subi relativement peu de dommages et a donc pu être remis en service dès la fin de la guerre.
Malgré les changements, Artek a encore le regard tourné vers son heure de gloire, celle du communisme des années cinquante et soixante.
www.france-ukraine.com /article598.html   (1867 words)

  
 Neeka's Backlog
Artek's site is in Russian, as far as I can see.
The only camp I was forced to spend 40 days at was not far from Moscow, near Vladimir and Petushki, and I barely survived it - but we had no choice then but to keep me there, because it was 1986, right after Chernobyl.
The worst part about camps is the idiotic discipline they impose on you - like, if they find a wet sponge in your drawer after you've taken a shower, all 15 or so people in your room are gonna be punished...
vkhokhl.blogspot.com /2005/08/they-showed-milla-jovovich-on-ntv-news.html   (213 words)

  
 Camping Trailer Denver Content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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 The Union of Oil and Democracy in Pioneer Camp - Kommersant Moscow
The current meeting on Artek is a widened continuation of the summit in Borjomi.
The group gathered in Artek - Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Georgia — is geographically located from Black to Baltic Seas.
However, it is evident that today's summit in Artek is another proof that the construction of a democratic-oil block is on the way.
www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=602312   (1102 words)

  
 :: Enterprise «Bogdan». Information Portal ::
Two buses from this lot planed to be sent to the international children’s camp “Artek”.
Bus fleet of “Artek” has more than 70 units, the most part of them being old buses which should be written off.
This purchase was the first step of a complex renewal of the world well-known children’s camp transportation facilities.
www.bogdan.com.ua /eng/news/corp/30   (277 words)

  
 Actualités russes: Artek, camp pionnier ukrainien de l’ère soviétique, a 80 ans !
Le camp est donc un lieu d’idéologie, et cela se retrouve partout.
Le camp permet également d’affirmer les valeurs qui se veulent proprement soviétiques.
La renaissance du camp en 1955 s’accompagne d’une nouvelle forme d’architecture Avec ses nouveaux bâtiments construits au début des années soixante, Artek apparaît comme un champ expérimental des ambitions de l’ère Khrouchtchev.
www.russie.tv /article.php3?id_article=2008   (1823 words)

  
 ForUm :: Presidents and Hollywood stars gather at Ukrainian Youth Camp "Artek"
Four presidents and a number of regional and foreign celebrities are expected to join some 3,000 children today at Artek, Ukraine, to help celebrate the 80th anniversary of the former elite camp for Young Pioneers and presently the International Youth and Chidren Camp.
Mila and her mother put on white ties with Artek emblem and were handed white roses.
But after it was established in 1925, it grew to be the place where the best students and children of the Communist Party elites from all across the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc spent their summer vacations swimming, singing songs, and learning to be loyal Communists, RFE/RL reported.
eng.for-ua.com /news/2005/08/18/102614.html   (434 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Artek youth camp
Before becoming a Young Pioneers' camp, this resort on the Black Sea was used by the Russian aristocracy.
The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin (centre, in dark jacket), was one of Artek's most famous guests.
The Young Pioneers ceased to exist in 1990, but the camp - now in independent Ukraine - is still very popular.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_pictures/4154102.stm   (157 words)

  
 Kids’ Camps
It was the dream of every Soviet child to come to Artek; it’s not just a summer camp but a world in itself, with beautiful nature all around, the Crimean mountains, and clean beaches.
There are 10 camps with various types of accommodation: 5-storey blocks, 2-storey houses, dachas dating from the beginning of the 20th century.
The 21-day programme is held at the Smena camp on the shores of the Black Sea, 12 kms away from Anapa, in the picturesque Sukko valley.
www.passportmagazine.ru /article/249   (640 words)

  
 Kiev Ukraine News Blog
Milla Jovovich, the star of "The Fifth Element" and numerous makeup TV commercials, visited Ukraine within the scope of her activity to establish a charitable foundation to help Ukrainian children, disabled children in particular.
According to the actress, the foundation will work with a variety of charity programs to support children during their vacations in the international resort camp of Artek, talented children, and "to help all Ukrainian children in general" as she said.
The actress said that she would like Artek to become a perfect vacation place for disabled children.
blog.kievukraine.info /2005/08/milla-jovovich-opens-foundation-for.html   (552 words)

  
 Milla Jovovich In Russia:: Official Milla Jovovich Russian web site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
At today's next press conference on results of celebrating of the 80 anniversary of international children's camp " Artek " Milla Jovovich has expressed hope that the first payment which it has made in this fund, will increase, and they will be used to destination.
Loginova emigrated from the USSR together with her husband and five-year-old daughter in 1980.Jovovich said she was going to attend the Artek celebration with her mother.
She said she followed the revolution in Ukraine and looked forward to seeing the changes.Jovovich said it was a brilliant idea to celebrate the anniversary of the famous children's camp on such a large scale, as it would certainly bring political and cultural benefits to Ukraine.The Artek anniversary will be marked on August 18.
www.millaj.com.ru /new-aug2005-en.htm   (1198 words)

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