The sources of organization of recreation and health improvement in Artek: The experience of the first turns

Abstract

The article describes historical period of becoming of Artek as children camp in the first half of the 1920s. The facts that are insufficiently covered in publications are cited. Before the opening of the first children health camp, immense regulatory and organizational work was carried out. Its experience is invaluable. The People's Commissar of Health Care Nikolai Alexandrovich Semashko and the first chief physician of Artek Fedor Fedorovich Shishmarev significantly influenced both on factual organization of institution of new format and becoming and consolidation of system of childfren health protection at its very initial stages. F. F. Shishmarev collected materials that permitted to analyze medical activities of the camp in first two years of its existence. The special attention is paid to comparative analysis of morbidity and evaluation of the results of stay of children in the camp. According to the outcomes of successfully conducted first turns of 1925-1926, the young Soviet government adopted decision to develop the given direction of activity, positioned at the junction of educational, ideological and recreational work.