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03/07/2014 GMT

Artek - the Soviet Holiday Camp

BBC World Service - Witness History, Artek - the Soviet Holiday Camp

Every year, thousands of Soviet children visited the holiday camp Artek by the Black Sea

Every year, thousands of Soviet children visited the holiday camp Artek by the Black Sea.

Artek was the Soviet Union's most popular holiday camp, on the shores of the Black Sea in Crimea. Thousands of children visited every year - Maria Kim Espeland went there in the 1980s.

(Photo: Group of children attending Artek. Credit: Irina Vlasova)

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