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 | | 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. |
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