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Artek (Camp)Artek (Russian: Арте́к) was the All-Union and international Young Pioneer camp in the Soviet Union. It was established on June 16 1925 near the Black Sea in the town of Gurzuf located on the Crimean peninsula. The camp first hosted eighty children but it grew rapidly. In 1969 it had an area of 3.2 km², there were 150 buildings, 3 medical buildings, a school, film studio Artekfilm, 3 swimming-pools, sports stadium (7000 seats), playgrounds among other activities. During its heyday each year Artek gave 27,000 children vacations. Between 1925 and 1969 in the camp hosted 300,000 children including more than 13,000 children from seventy foreign countries. After the breaking up of the Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union in 1990 it became much less popular, although many children still go there for vacations. See also Orlyonok External link
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