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Witness History: Crimea's Soviet holiday camp

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Crimea's Soviet holiday camp

27/02/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Crimea's Soviet holiday camp

The hugely popular Soviet holiday camp, Artek

Each year, thousands of children visited Artek, a hugely popular Soviet holiday camp.

Artek, on the shores of the Black Sea in Crimea, was a hugely popular Soviet holiday camp.

Maria Kim Espeland was one of the thousands of children who visited every year.

In 2014, she told Lucy Burns about life in the camp in the 1980s.

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

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