Artek is an international children's center on the Black Sea in the town of Gurzuf located on the Crimean Peninsula, near Ayu-Dag. It was established on 16 June 1925.
1985 USSR stamp to the 60th anniversary of Artek
Sign by the road to Artek. Photo taken through window of inter-city Crimean Trolleybus (the 52 route).
The 2016 New Wave Junior international contest for young pop music performers that was held in Artek.
Young Pioneers (Soviet Union)
The Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization, abbreviated as the Young Pioneers, was a compulsory youth organization of the Soviet Union for children and adolescents ages 9–14 that existed between 1922 and 1991.
Samantha Smith with Young Pioneers, 1983
Pioneers in the Zeravshan Mountains of the Tajik SSR in 1983
50 years, Stamp, 1972
Young pioneers at school, 1984