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On this shift, children arrived at night. Almost all at once. Our camp accommodated about 300 children and it was not a boring night.

Artek operates a so-called “closed movement” scheme for children. This means that no child should be unattended for a single minute. This requirement forced the creation of an entire system of accompanying children throughout their vacation. At Artek, every step is planned a day in advance. Therefore, all the counselors, without exception, worked at the arrival - someone met us from the bus, someone accompanied us to distribution into groups, and so on.

First of all, children go to the reception center, where they leave all their bags in a storage room. You can take with you only the essentials that you may need during the day. Everything edible is mercilessly confiscated - absolutely all food, except candy, goes into the trash can or a special box (where it goes from the box is another question...). This, of course, is correct - no one poisons themselves with rotten sausage and builds a shelter for insects.

Next, the children are sent to be assigned to groups, then they hand over their pocket money to the cashier to eliminate the possibility of theft in the buildings; then they take a shower, change into branded Artek clothes and go to the buildings. Sometimes - first to the dining room, then to the building. Every step is thought out, everything is like putting out a fire with the whole village, when a bucket of water is passed from hand to hand.

The ride lasted 6 hours and ended around 5 am. At 7.30 there was already a planning meeting for counselors (more often at Artek it is customary to say “teachers”). In general, the daily routine usually looked like this:

7.30 – Teachers’ meeting

8.00 – Children getting up

8.10 – Charging

8.30 – Breakfast

9.00-13.00 – Beach, creative, sports, squad events

13.00-13.30 – Lunch

14.00-15.30 – Quiet hour

16.00 – Afternoon snack

16.30-19.30 – Events

19.30 – Dinner

20.00-22.00 – Events, concerts

22.00 – Second dinner

22.30 – Lights out

22.45 – Teachers’ meeting

The plan for each day was printed every night and signed by one of the senior counselors.

Artek has its own school, which children attend during school hours. In September this was up to 3 times a week, classes were held from 15 to 18.00.

Thus, the counselor must be at the workplace at 7.30, and can leave it after 23.30. But in practice, evening planning meetings ended at 3 am. From the dormitories to the children's building it's ~15 minutes at a brisk pace, so you need to get up no later than 6.30. We have never been able to go to bed before 2 am. A week later, my body perceived even 5 hours of sleep as a gift of fate. In Smolensk I had problems with sleep, Artek cured them. Thank you.

Each detachment has 3 teachers (some guys, in order to earn extra money, join the detachment together), however, this does not mean that 1 works, two sleep. One is at the planning meeting, the second is raising the children, the third is getting laundry, etc. If for some reason children are divided into 2 groups, there should be a teacher for each of them. If everyone is outside the building, and one person wants to go to the toilet, a second teacher should go to the building with him or, if he is not there, we go with the whole squad. Any child moves to any point only accompanied by a counselor. If there is no teacher near the children, this is a gross violation of the rules. You may be reprimanded for this. Several reprimands - dismissal. During the so-called organizational period (the first 3 days), it is considered a gross violation if one of the teachers is not present at work from the morning to the evening planning meeting. My partner was reprimanded when, on the second day after the race, she left for half a day on urgent business.

These measures are absolutely clear - all for the safety of children and teachers (who are responsible, even criminally responsible, for each child). Crimea is full of poisonous plants, dangerous insects and snakes; the mountainous landscape threatens injury at every turn... However, the practice of closed movement leads to the fact that children follow you like ducklings. And after a few days they turn into completely dependent animals. “Ruslan, where is our building?”; “Ruslan, where is the toilet?”; “Ruslan, when we go to the storage room, do I need sneakers?”; “Ruslan, I wet myself, what should I do?”; “Ruslan, I forgot my Panama hat, what should I do?”; “And where?... And when?... And what?... And where?... And how?” Five hundred thousand million questions per second times thirty people all day long. Despite the fact that you yourself do not know the answers to most of them. You still only vaguely understand the layout of the vast territory of the camp; you yourself lack information and experience.

All children always load the counselors with questions. But in other camps you can teach your child to solve some problems on their own. It is possible to establish a system of children's self-government, when properly organized children collectively cope with more complex tasks and the counselor only coordinates their activities. Then, within a week you can take a break from the functions of a mother duck and take up work at a higher level. At Artek, the children’s ability to make independent decisions seriously atrophies over the course of a shift, and the counselor is basically a guide.

It gets to the point of absurdity. On one of the excursions, we spent the entire time allotted for viewing the facility standing in line for the toilet, since the children had to be all together. As a result, when asked at home how you went on the “Diorama” excursion, the children can answer: “We peed well.”

For a long time, Masha avoided planning meetings whenever possible. She was scared to go to them. When I first got to the planning meeting, I felt like the hero of a film where the main character was mistakenly sent to prison and now he needs to learn to live according to the laws of the zone. Most of the evening planning meetings summing up the results of the day consisted of harsh and merciless criticism of specific counselors who made mistakes in their work. They didn’t touch the new ones, but I realized that this was for the time being.

Moreover, it was not only the senior counselors who, as a rule, who conducted these meetings, who scolded each other, but also the counselors to each other. A fragment of such a monologue at one of the first planning meetings (the leader of one detachment to the leader of another): “Grisha, to you. I’ll tell you right away, so as not to offend you - you’re a schmuck. You are a complete nonentity to your children and other teachers. Everyone doesn't care about you.<….>And if someone does this again, I will find this person and destroy him, first morally, and then, around the corner, physically...” Let me clarify right away that I did not observe any criminality or assault at Artek, it was all just a psychological suggestion. Not always so rude, but often with a powerful aggressive message. Giving harsh criticism to a specific person and smearing it on the wall was commonplace at such planning meetings. Speaking in a raised voice and using censored language is a common occurrence.

We must pay tribute to the senior counselors - Sergei and Anya. These are unique people. They never allowed themselves personal insults. They only talked about man's work. But they did it in such a way that if a person was guilty, he was ready to fail. They praised. And this praise, spoken in modest words, sounded like a sign of the highest honor. They gave everyone what they deserved. They thoroughly understood all the intricacies of the work process. It was impossible to mislead them. They masterfully managed a group of 30 adults, often angry people, getting maximum efficiency from them and were themselves the best example to any of the employees. Including the children, there were about 350 people under the two of them, whom they controlled 24 hours a day. I sincerely believe that they belong among the managers of the country’s largest companies, and not in a children’s camp. If you want to learn how to manage a wolf pack, go to Artek and learn from Anya and Sergei.

As for the “wolf pack”, the parallel with the zone is still more suitable. There are their “authorities” and there are... well, you understand... Some manage to maintain a neutral position. I will emphasize that we are not talking about the traditional Zonian meaning of these words, but about their similarity with some of the realities of the camp (well, at least as much as I know about the zone from books and movies). Sooner or later, the newcomer must decide who he will join. Or he will be identified without his consent.

“Influencers” are opinion leaders. These counselors stick together and have each other's backs. They do almost everything better than others, treat the quality of their work as a matter of honor, and do not allow themselves to be freeloaders. They are experienced, morally more stable, and stand in special regard with management. They always take the initiative and express their opinions loudly. Sometimes they can afford a little more than others. When it comes to sorting out the “goodies”, they are the first to claim them. The rest are afraid of them, no one crosses their path.

Nobody respects “non-authorities”. Their opinion is not taken into account. All the aggression and negativity at planning meetings is poured onto them. They are not afraid of losing them and their elders often directly threaten them with dismissal. They work worse than anyone, often doing what they want. They are never assigned responsible tasks and are not given special incentives. I don’t know why they are kept at all. Apparently due to lack of staff.

“Neutrals” prefer to avoid trouble, criticism and confrontation. They just try not to mess up too much, but they don’t strive for high results either. If the choice is to sleep more with impunity or to rehearse the event with the children once again, without a doubt they choose the first. They just go to work. They know how to find loopholes so that life in the camp is completely relaxed. For them, a good shift is when there is little work.

Thus, if you work hard, like Papa Carlo, and have a light character (because there are already enough heavy ones out there), you end up with the “Authorities”. If you are idle, stupid and freeloading, go to the “Non-Authorities”. If for some reason you just spend time at Artek, go to Neutrals.

Alexey Kasprzhak, General Director of Artek

Masha and I were assigned to the “Authorities” already in the first week. We worked hard. All this was wildly interesting to me, but Masha simply does not know how to do poorly what she undertakes. We ourselves, however, tried to maintain neutrality and treat everyone equally friendly.

These lines probably don’t give the best impression of the people at Artek, but that’s unfair. We became good friends with many of the guys and, if given time, could have become best friends. We continue to correspond to this day. The efficiency of many Artek counselors is simply off the charts. If I have my own children's camp, I will be happy to invite them to work. These guys could be great employees in many areas, because working at Artek is a powerful school of life.

The reason for aggression and not always adequate behavior of employees is in the system under which Artek lives and the working conditions. “The army is a kindergarten compared to Artek,” said the director of our camp. I think he's right. Let me describe to you the shift of a standard Artek counselor so that you understand.

From the moment the children moved in, the counselor is no longer his own boss. He is completely dependent on the children. The daily responsibilities of any counselor include:

- full support of each child 24 hours a day - you must know about each one: where they are and what they are doing. In the dining room, in the building, on the beach, on an excursion, on a walk, at competitions, rehearsals - you should always be there and help with everything;

— control of the positive emotional mood of each child. "Artek" is a legend. It is necessary to keep up the goodwill and remember that children get here for outstanding achievements in education, sports, and other areas. A shift at Artek is a unique reward that must be 100% worth it. Therefore, children should ALWAYS feel good and have fun. Team games, chants, songs, activities, other positive contact - all this should accompany children from getting up to bed. The child should always see a smiling, full of energy counselor, ready to entertain and captivate at any second. Several times during a shift, randomly selected children from each squad are interviewed by senior counselors on the topic “Are you happy in your squad?”, “What could you tell about your counselor?”;

— control of psychological state. You must monitor the microclimate in the group. Are there any outcasts? Negative leaders? Is your child homesick? Only you can solve these problems. But they definitely need to be resolved. There is a psychologist, but, from experience, his job is simply to advise you and the child in particularly difficult situations. You work 24 hours a day;

— control of health and physical well-being. It is necessary to monitor the condition of each child in the squad. You must know the individual characteristics and diseases of all children. If something happens, provide assistance, deliver to the medical unit, bring breakfast, lunch and dinner if the child was left in the hospital. You must make sure that everyone has a sun hat on their head if the children are outdoors during the day, and a windbreaker to prevent hypothermia if they are outdoors in the evening. You must know the basics of providing first aid to a drowning person, for fractures, heart attacks and in other extreme situations. I saw one boy get an open fracture of his leg during a competition. The bone was sticking out. The counselors, together with the doctor, provided assistance to him: they calmed him down, helped with an injection of painkillers, dressing him, and transporting him to the ambulance. This or worse can happen to anyone at any time;

- perform the work of a guide. “What is the name of this tree?”; “What is the history of the creation of the Suuk-Su Palace?”; “What is the area of ​​the entire Artek?”; “Are there sharks here?”; “What kind of grass is this?” “What’s interesting in other Artek camps?” – you must know the answers to these and other questions. When traveling by bus to the excursion site, you should spend several hours with information about Crimea, its history, flora, fauna, etc.

— safety of children's personal belongings. Most of the things remain in the storage room, but, naturally, phones, cameras, tablets, laptops, and video games are taken with them. Who is responsible for their safety? That's right, counselor. Nothing was missing on me, but the counselors told me that the boy lost his phone. Police officers came and took the counselor to the station for interrogation. If the gadget had not been found (the boy himself remembered where he put it), the counselor could have had a hard time.

- all camp events - organization, preparation, holding. It is necessary to come up with scripts, texts, stage, direct and rehearse. After the events, provide an oral report to management about the work done with an analysis of the results and errors. Some of the work can be assigned to children. But, since they have little free time, and their independence is poor, the main burden falls on the counselor;

— maintaining methodological documentation: daily plan for the day; daily filling out of the pedagogical diary (a page of text written according to certain requirements, about the results of each day of the shift); 3 graphic-analytical notes “Sociometry”, which analyze in detail the socio-psychological climate of the children's team; “excursion sheets” when there are excursions; a lot of other documents... Because of all these documents, there is almost no time left for the children. And the documents are empty scribbles for reporting. No one fills them out the way the one who invented and introduced them intended.

- five hundred thousand million other duties: receiving, handing over linen for the entire detachment - 30 people (it must be changed every week or more often); receive, return and exchange Artek clothes for children; monitor the cleanliness and order in children's rooms, including cleaning children's rooms after they leave (cleaning ladies almost never do this); monitor the behavior of children so that they do not harm themselves, others and follow the rules of the camp; monitor compliance with the regime: getting up, going to bed, eating, quiet time, medical procedures, etc.; much more depending on the situation.

- in general, absolutely ANY question related to the child - first of all to the counselor. The counselor becomes not only a father and mother of 30 children from 7 to 18 years old (each group has one age group), he is a teacher, methodologist, mentor, animator, game technician, nanny, psychologist, artistic director, tutor, bodyguard, guide, and Swedish , and the reaper and the dude at the game.

Level of responsibility? Total. From a fine for the smallest mistake to prison, if something happens to the child or you are accused of something serious (it is not a fact that the counselor will actually be to blame). Any responsibility first falls on the counselor, and only then up the stairs.

And, in my opinion, almost all of this is correct. The counselor is the main person during the shift in the life of a child who comes to the children's camp. And therefore a lot should be required of him.

However, in Artek, as in most children's health centers in the country, the requirements are inadequate to the working conditions.

There is a punitive service called the “hotline”. All the counselors are afraid of her like fire. This is a phone number on which any parent can call Artek, where operators will accept any complaint, bring it to the appropriate authority and punish everyone. Well, not all of them, but most often the counselors. And they call. In my presence, the girl was suspended from work. She was finishing her work at Artek and needed a reference for another place. Instead - dismissal with a severe reprimand. She simply said to one boy who was not performing his duties as president well (each squad elects its own president): “What the hell kind of president are you?” I agree, this is not the best wording for addressing a child. But the working conditions are not perfect either. And what was actually there is not known. But at Artek, the Customer is always right. Because the camp gets money for it. And counselors can be expended. More will come.

And not all children are nice and kind. There were stories when children played “who will throw the bedside table out of the window next.” When the counselor tried to pacify the 17-year-old teenagers who were raging in the middle of the night, and one of them covered her mouth, pressed her to the wall and said: “We will do what we want. And if you blather, I’ll fuck you and tell you that you seduced me.” And he knew that the law would be on his side. It wasn't all about me. I wasn't a witness. But there is no reason not to believe those who told me this. And these are not the toughest stories. There are a lot of them. But no one will know about them except their own people. Because counselors are nothing, children are everything. No parent will ever accept that their child may be wrong. They yell at the counselors, threaten to kill them, bury them, and simply insult them from the bottom of their hearts. Counselors are wonderful whipping boys and girls.

When I invited a girl from the troop to a slow dance (it’s just that none of her peers invited her and the child was sad), the senior counselor flew up to me and sternly reprimanded: “We don’t dance pair dances with children!” And thanks to her, she took care of me. God forbid you touch a child in the wrong place, God forbid someone tells anyone anything - in our country lately paedohysteria has reached an extreme degree. In order for you to be imprisoned for 20 years for pedophilia, only the testimony of a child may be sufficient. What if he's telling a lie? Taking revenge on you for something? Or was he forced to say it? Such stories are not uncommon in Russia. Children need to be protected from pedophiles. But no one protects those who work with children.

A teacher in Russia as a whole is a profession: a) for fans; b) for those who have nowhere to go. I am not a historian or an analyst, so I cannot say why this is so. But it is obvious that selling socks at the market or being a taxi driver in our country is easier and more profitable than teaching and raising children. Apparently the country needs socks more. A teacher has been ranked among the least prestigious and most stressful professions for a long time. This is all known.

I don’t know how it is in other large Russian children’s centers, but at Artek the working conditions are only suitable for real terminators.

Salary. A friend from Smolensk called me when I was in Crimea: “Well, how is it going at Artek?” My friends told me that counselors are paid 60,000 rubles!” I later amused many camp counselors with this story.

In fact: 10,000 per shift (21 days) - this is if you do not have a higher pedagogical education (and 95% do not have it) and 12,000 - if you do. You can earn extra money by doing night shifts. This is when you are on duty all night in one of the children's buildings, keeping order and who knows what. Sleeping is prohibited. For each such duty they pay 1000 rubles. plus to salary. But there are a limited number of such shifts, so everyone is fighting for them. Night duty is divided equally among everyone and sometimes, as a punishment, night duty is removed from the one who is guilty. You can give your night duty to a friend for his birthday - he will actually be happy.

You can work together on a squad, rather than three, and get 0.5 extra bets. But then the load will be much greater. You can combine the work of a counselor and a physical teacher, for example. But you will have to work for two. In short, with all the tricks and a load that is enough for three, few people manage to get more than 20,000. The senior counselors, who rule everyone in general and also work from dawn to dusk, have about 17,000 rubles.

It would seem - well, not fatal. After all, they feed you in the canteen for free, you don’t have to pay for housing. Wait.

They feed Fine.

Dining room in one of the Artek camps

But the dining room only has 3-4 menu options. Even after 2 weeks, all the dishes begin to become boring. And some guys have been living there for 4 years. Sooner or later, they still start shopping in stores or going to cafes in Gurzuf.

In addition, 5 meals a day are provided only for children; counselors have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Dinner at 19.00. You go to bed 6-7 hours later at 2.00. You'll have to eat at least once again anyway. Gurzuf, where Artek is located, is a resort town. Prices there are also resort prices. Considering that you usually go to the store at night (at other times there is simply no physical opportunity due to work), you go to a 24-hour shop where they sell chips, crackers, BPshki and poor cold cuts with maximum markup. This whole tin for the stomach is more expensive than healthy food.

At Artek, guys lose weight sharply, girls gain it a lot. Some guys lost up to 15 kg, and the girls gained up to 10 kg in six months. As for money, Masha and I spent 30 thousand per shift. That’s just on food and that’s it. Probably, it could have been less, but there was no time for budget planning.

Housing. The dormitories for counselors in Artek are barracks. Up to 8 people in a 25 m2 room. Bunk beds. Everything is very reminiscent of a reserved seat carriage. Shower on the floor.

There is never such order in the counselors’ rooms.

There is also such a hostel in Artek, the locals call it DPU. Previously, the counselors lived there together with the students of the Artek University. At times, there was only one shower in the emergency room on 4 floors. And 200 people tried to get there at the same time in the morning or evening. Have you imagined this picture?

To rent a one-room apartment in Gurzuf costs from 20,000. But even with a salary of 10,000, many counselors gather in groups of three and still rent an apartment.

Not all counselors are lucky enough to be within walking distance of their camp. To some camps from the hostels it is a 7 km walk up a steep mountain. If you don't want to go, take the bus. That's another 30 rubles. per day and 900 per month.

Schedule. Weekends at Artek are like the gopher in the movie DMB: they exist, but most people don’t see them. As I said before - be ready 24 hours 7 days. Getting up at 6.30, going off at 2.00 is still a very good option. We even came to work at 3 am, when we needed to get the children ready to leave.

Formally, we regularly signed official documents, where we have an 8-hour working day and 2 days off per week. In fact, Masha and I each had half a day off in 21 days. We were not eager to rest, but if we work there as expected, there is especially no time to rest. Often counselors simply stay overnight in the children's buildings on sofas and chairs in the playroom. They take a shower in the buildings, leave their things, and sometimes do not return to the hostel for several days. The shift lasts 21 days, then 1 day off and again preparation for the race, check-in - and everything started to happen. Some counselors live in this rhythm for several years.

Personal life. It’s the same thing with her as with the weekend, only worse. Boys are not allowed into girls' rooms. Even if both are in their thirties. The windows in some rooms are even boarded up. And there is practically no time for this. However, several couples who came to Artek together even managed to have affairs on the side and break up. But, when you live with 7 roommates and your and your partner’s free time is a few hours a week; At the same time, there is always a lack of money... - I don’t know how you can maintain your personal life here. One of the counselors admitted to us that he had not had sex for a year. And he is the star of Artek and the camp in which we worked...

Safety. There's a problem with her too. In Crimea it gets dark at 6 pm. The counselors return home no earlier than 11:30 p.m. From the children's buildings to the dormitories there is a 1.5 km road through an area covered in darkness. There is practically no lighting. The road goes through thickets of trees and bushes. At first we didn’t attach any importance to this - after all, this is the territory of a children’s camp, there is security at the checkpoint, and police officers patrol the perimeter. But then we noticed that other counselors never walked alone in the evening. One day Masha had to return home at night on her own. When her partner found out about this, he said, “Are you crazy? Even we men don’t take risks alone...”

It turned out that there had been criminal incidents here. Shortly before our arrival at the camp, the corpse of a guard surfaced in one of the bays. After some time, the second one was killed. We were not told who and what, but this fact was confirmed by several people. In addition, there were cases of rape of female counselors who returned to the hostel late at night.

Then, even before the heap, we were told a couple of stories about a local ghost - the White Lady, who often appears in our camp and scares passers-by half to death. A woman in a white shroud appeared out of nowhere and almost gave one of the most reasonable employees of Artek a heart attack.

White Lady "Artek".

Responsibility. In addition to the fact that the counselor is responsible with his head for the life and health of each child in the squad, the counselor is responsible with his wallet for almost everything he touches and more. For example, if one of the children does not have enough bedding, it is deducted from the salary of the squad leaders.

A special line in the area of ​​​​responsibility, instilling horror in the soul of every counselor, is the Artek uniform. Upon arrival at the camp, each child receives a set of branded clothing - T-shirt, skirt, trousers, cap, windbreaker, shirt, etc. The counselors are also given their own uniform.

All counselors sign a document under which they undertake to reimburse the full cost of any missing Artek item - both theirs and the child’s. The competition for the supply of clothing and bed linen for Artek was won by the Bosco company, which dressed the Olympic team in Sochi. The cost of the contract for 2015 was about 140 million rubles. Here are examples of products with prices:

– T-shirt – 1500 rub.

– sweatshirt – 2500 rub.

— polo shirt – 2000 rub.

— Panama hat – 500 rub.

— leader’s backpack – 8,000 rubles.

In total, the counselor’s set of clothes and accessories (belt, backpack) amounted to about 10 items and the cost was around his salary for 3 months.

Branded clothing is what counselors worry about the most. It is regularly stolen, so almost none of the counselors hang it outside to dry after washing it. But this doesn't help either. The rooms accommodate up to 8 people and have a walk-through courtyard. The senior counselor told us how she once ironed a set of dress clothes, put them on her bed and went into the shower. When she returned, there were no clothes. They even steal wet, freshly washed clothes that are drying. Then a chain reaction starts - they stole from one, he stole from another to compensate for the loss, he stole from a third, etc. Sometimes counselors steal from children if the size matches, because there may still be concessions for the loss of a child’s uniform.

It somehow helps if you sign the label on your clothes. Then there is a chance to find her. The camp director suggested we thread threads through the tags on our clothes and tie them into a chain to make it harder to steal.

If a child’s clothes were lost, the counselors were also asked. However, behind the scenes there was a certain limit on children's things, for which there was no fine (if 1-2 things were missing). But this is little consolation, because there are about 30 children and each has a set of 5-7 things + a set of bed linen of 5-6 items. That is, about 400 positions per squad. The likelihood that everything will return intact is very low. The child went to the shower, left his shirt there, five minutes later it was gone (and someone would take home a souvenir from Artek). The children sat down on the bench, took off their panama hats, stood up, and went - the panama hats were there. And there are a million such situations. You won’t go to the shower with every child. I personally found 5 things on the street and returned them to the children. Our squad managed to hand over all their belongings and not lose anything (including thanks to my experienced partners), but not everyone was so lucky.

With us, one counselor, upon resigning, received a paycheck. It went into negative territory by 11,000 rubles. for six months of work because of branded items. He didn't go anywhere. Left to work.

Bosco clothes, of course, are basically cool. Beautiful. But, in my opinion, it is lawlessness to saddle a counselor with such financial responsibility under such working conditions.

Everything described above happens not only in the camp where we worked. In all Artek camps. In others it is even worse in many respects (some guys worked in different camps). Our director is a very democratic and adequate person. There are fearsome legends about some of the other directors, but I won’t retell them. Our camp is near the leader’s hostel; to get to the rest you need to ride several kilometers through the mountains. There are also differences that are not in favor of other camps.

When you see all this, you begin to understand why the counselors at Artek are often so twitchy. People are simply on the verge of mental, emotional and physical exhaustion. Without sleep, rest, personal life, money, in constant fear... Some guys come for a season and leave after a few shifts. But there are those who have been working at Artek for several years. How do they survive?

Among the Artek counselors there are many people who have nowhere to go. Their homeland is Donbass, Lugansk, Donetsk, western Ukraine. “Artek” or war – that’s their choice. When Crimea passed to Russia, camp employees with Ukrainian citizenship were required to obtain Russian citizenship in order to continue working. One counselor, while receiving citizenship, could not officially move into the dormitory. For about 5 months, a 20-year-old guy went to work and slept on the street. For five months he lived on the street. Could you do that? I don't think so.

And, by the way, many noted that after Crimea became Russian, work became better - both in terms of money and conditions. What was it like before this?

However, the guys themselves do not complain about life. They don’t view their place of work as critically as I do. They appreciate what they have. They work with increased dedication. Many people really love their work. To be honest, I don’t know any other efficient people who, no matter what, entertain and raise other people’s children for pennies in the harshest conditions, don’t whine and enjoy life. This commands great respect. I sincerely wish the guys with whom we worked a happy life. I rarely see such strong and brave people.

While I was in Artek, acquaintances from Smolensk often called me.

- How's the sea there? Are you relaxing and swimming?

- No I working.

- Oh, come on...

How do people who have never worked here most often imagine the job of a counselor at Artek?.. You swim, sunbathe, try local wine, walk along the evening beach, and sometimes play for an hour with the kids. Everyone here is waiting for you, they will love, cherish and cherish you! And you will relax, and have fun, and earn money! Are you going to Artek? I'm jealous!

Nope. During my shift, I swam twice for three minutes. I walked – once to the embankment and back, when it was a half-day off. You have to plow hard. Not enough money. For this city - catastrophically little. The counselor is an expendable unit. Cannon fodder. Therefore, many students who come here in search of romance and easy money combined with relaxation are knocked out already in the first days of work.

Masha and I observed such young men and women who underwent 3 weeks of training at the so-called School of Pedagogical Workers (SPR). The idea of ​​the School is that future counselors spend their whole shift here like children. So they join the ranks of Artek. They have their own counselors, they live according to the children's regime, do the same activities, go to the sea, come up with their own chants, etc. - everyone is like their future wards.

And at this stage everything is very fun and quite easy. The guys unite and are charged with unprecedented energy. We saw how the ShPR members chirped cheerfully in the evenings near our hostel, sang with a guitar... But after the first days of real work in the camp, most of them wilted. They say that of the new people who come to Artek, every third one leaves back in the first week.

What does Artek give to children? Here, in my opinion, everything is fine. It could be better, but parents definitely shouldn’t worry about their children whom they send to this camp.

The safety and health of children is the main thing here. Safety precautions and control are at their best here. Even with too much. On the beach, for example, while swimming in a fenced rectangle, the child is not even allowed to plunge headlong - the counselor stands ankle-deep in the water and monitors this. On field trips, children are only allowed to buy 1 bottle of soda and 1 ice cream - nothing else is allowed. Literally.

There is, however, one exception - a hike to Mount Ayu-Dag (Mount Bear). Given the general fanatical attitude of the Artek administration towards the issue of children's safety, almost all children participate in climbing this mountain. This is up to 3 hours of ascent and an hour and a half of descent under the scorching sun, but that’s not the point. The path along which the groups move is truly mountainous. In some places you need to climb, going down on all fours. One wrong move and you could fly down a rocky slope. And the counselors lead 30 people in single file. And in some units the children are 7 years old. They say there have been accidents. No wonder.

Activities, creative, sports life, sea, nature, exceptional air, excursions, new friends from all over Russia - children get a lot here. They leave happy, cry when parting, correspond for a long time on social networks, often return again... Any child, of course, should go to Artek, even though getting here is not easy. And I would say that there is no better place for children’s recreation if I had not been to other camps.

In the Smolensk region there is a camp “Falcon” or in another way

As a result of a simple combination, the head of the international children's camp (IDC) "Artek" Aleksey Kasprzhak deprived his employees of an entry in the work book, sick leave and vacations. These are the conditions for workers who want to keep their jobs, set by the cleaning company, which now services part of the Artek camps, said the chairman of the Artek trade union committee, Evgeny Bazhenov. The Pribrezhny children's camp complex will be serviced by a cleaning company from Moscow, STK-C LLC (legal address: 105064, Moscow, Puteyskiy tupik, 6 kv. 4, authorized capital: 10 thousand rubles). First of all, the new management held a meeting of the maids, with whom a collective labor agreement was concluded from May to October of this year. They were presented with a fact: the organization that concluded the agreement no longer exists (and this despite the fact that the maids signed the agreement directly with the Artek MDC). Everyone urgently needs to quit and get a job at STK-C LLC - for a period of about two months. And what’s most interesting is that everyone will work unofficially: without entries in work books, without vacation and without sick pay. Salaries will be paid in cash - 2 thousand rubles per shift. The same applies to janitors and park workers. The workers, of course, were not satisfied with this formulation of the issue, since they have an official contract, which specifies the work period until the end of October. They did not receive any written notices about layoffs, liquidation, or the like. But the workers did not receive an answer to their question about existing contracts. After the meeting, the maids who went to work according to schedule were simply not allowed to return to their previous workplaces - with the tacit consent of the Artek administration. “The administration, having invited a commercial company to work - of course, a Moscow one - simply decided to get rid of the locals, depriving them of permanent work in a state institution, and is trying to turn us into guest workers in search of at least some work! This is wonderful: guest workers do not require attention to themselves, the conclusion of a collective agreement with them, a social package, etc. The main goal of the Artek administration is to minimize the number of permanent employees, and, accordingly, permanent jobs,” says Bazhenov. The team has already written an appeal to the president, the prosecutor general and the labor inspectorate of Crimea. In addition, people turned to the trade union for protection. Bazhenov heads the Russian trade union of cultural workers of the Artek International Children's Center. There is another trade union in Artek - workers of education and science of the Artek International Children's Center. Kasprzhak ordered its creation in order to gradually “strangle”, according to Bazhenov, the independent trade union, which consists mainly of rank-and-file employees of the MDC. The entire apparatus has transferred to the new trade union, which, contrary to the law, is headed by the head of the children's camp service, in fact the deputy director of the camp. Bazhenov has already sent a request to the legal service with a request to clarify this incident: whether an official can simultaneously be the head of a public organization. According to Bazhenov, when they began to raise uncomfortable questions, Artek director Kasprzhak replied: “Why do I need such a proletarian trade union committee? I need my own – a pocket one.” “We now call it “pocket,” noted Bazhenov. It should be noted that the Pribrezhny complex is not the first division of the MDC whose employees were transferred to an illegal position. Last year, a conflict arose in canteens outsourced to commercial structures. The workers also wrote complaints and letters to various authorities, and the matter ended with an official reduction of 150 wages in the canteens. Workers had to be reassigned to positions outside their specialty or quit altogether. Apparently, the practice of evading taxes and official employment at Artek will continue: according to employees, following the Pribrezhny camp complex, STK-C LLC plans to serve all MDC camps starting next year.

What is it really like to be a camp counselor?
By all indications, it’s a pure thrill. You hang out at the sea, swim, sunbathe, they feed you, and they also pay you money. Well, yes, you need to look after the kids, but this is such a thing that it’s so difficult.
I tried to figure this out by spending one day with the leaders of one of the squads in Artek.
I’ll say right away that everything is not as party-like as it seems, and being a counselor is still a job. There is a place to rest, but very, very little. But at the same time, the counselors enjoy what they do and miss Artek when they leave it at the end of their contract or return from practice.
So it turns out that rest is also...

2. The work day of a counselor at Artek begins long before the children get up. They have to get up at 7.30, and the counselors get up at 6.00-6.30 in order to have time to wash, put themselves in order, and then get ready at 7.10 for the morning briefing, which is conducted by either the camp director or the senior counselor. The briefing takes place every day and attendance is mandatory. Here all the introductory notes for the beginning of the day are conveyed, activities are discussed, adjustments are made to the program of each detachment or the entire camp as a whole. For example, whether to cancel the beach if the water or air temperature drops. A representative of the medical service must also be present at the briefing.

3. Every morning, the counselor must fill out an individual plan, transferring into it activities for the assigned squad from the general schedule.
For example, here is the plan for September 2 of our 18th detachment of the Lazurny camp.
The day is scheduled in full and throughout the entire time the counselors must accompany the children, stay nearby and supervise them. The only exception is lessons at school.
The counselors only accompany the children and are not present at the lessons themselves, arriving by bus at the end of classes to take the squad to the camp.

4. After the briefing, we head to the residential building to wake up our 18th detachment and get acquainted with the children.

5. I got a group of 10-12 years old who had just arrived for a shift.
The children only had time to communicate with each other a little and were just getting acquainted with the traditions of the camp. None of them had ever been to Artek before, so everything that happens here is new to them.
Many had already managed to wake up and wash themselves, without waiting for the counselors’ command.
By the way, each squad has three counselors. They alternate so that two are always with the children, and the third has the opportunity to relax, engage in self-education or personal affairs, go to the village or relax after night duty on the residential floor.
Night duty is not an empty formality. It’s like in the army - the night duty officer does not sleep, being on duty and monitoring everything that happens in the residential area.

6. Exercises at each camp take place on its own site, where all groups gather together and a physical education instructor conducts exercises

7. After charging, have breakfast right away.
Children do not go to the residential buildings to change clothes, but go straight to the dining room in their sports uniform. As well as for exercises, accompanied by a counselor.

8. Do you think everyone goes to their rooms after breakfast? No matter how it is. Half an hour to go to the residential building, grab your swimwear and go to the beach...
Each squad swims in its own sector, separated from the neighboring one by buoys.

9. There must be lifeguards on the beach; children do not enter the water without the command of a counselor.
The squad does not bathe all at once; the counselors divide it into groups that bathe in turns.
Children are not allowed to sunbathe in wet swimming trunks; immediately after swimming they are sent to the locker room to change into dry clothes.
Still, it’s already September 2nd on the calendar and even though the water temperature is 22 degrees, you can easily catch a cold.

10. After swimming, we return to the residential building, the children quickly change clothes, and we immediately go to thematic classes.
First to the new rope park...

11. And then to a thematic lesson in the children's creativity studio.
For my squad, this was an introductory lesson, where teachers met the children, told them what they would be doing during the shift, and conducted a small test on group interaction.

12. During the test, by the way, it was very interesting to watch the children.
Its essence boiled down to the fact that the detachment was divided into 4 groups of 5 people and each was given 5 sheets of paper. The task was to build the tallest tower in 5 minutes.
The task seems simple, but at the same time difficult. Each team began to solve it differently. In one, a leader immediately emerged and began issuing commands and construction options. In another, everyone vied with each other to offer their own options, in the third, everyone tried to build something themselves. Then some thought of folding the sheets into a parallelepiped and, placing them on a flat sheet, placing the parallelepipeds on top of each other. Others, seeing it, gave up their attempts and began to do the same. Still others did not copy, but stubbornly built in their own way

13. Finally, the two teams ended up with towers built according to the same principle (see above), which immediately crumbled when the children were given the command to move away from the tables. The third tower was built a little differently, from tightly twisted sheets stuffed into each other, but due to the great height and complex center of gravity, it also collapsed almost immediately. In the end, the tower, which was very low initially, was won by a team that did not try to copy anyone, but did not have a clear leader. Everyone in it pulled the blanket over themselves, as a result - something awkward from crumpled sheets, but... the only tower that stood.

14. At the end of the half-hour lesson, summing up. Each child must express his opinion and set goals that he wants to achieve in a children's creativity lesson by the end of the shift.
In this way, children are taught not to be shy about each other, to be able to formulate and express thoughts, to set specific goals and to know about the goals of others, encouraging them to be no worse

15. During, between classes and at various extracurricular activities, the counselor must constantly be in contact with his students, know their problems, possible difficulties, both in character and physical/health.
In addition, conduct educational and preventive conversations so that there are no accidents or any problems while the child is in Artek. Children sign for instructions. By the way, almost for the first time in my life, which for many is a big deal! You should see how they carefully write out their children's signatures)

16. An hour or two later, and after classes it’s time for lunch. Back to the dining room, again in formation and again together with the counselors.

17. After lunch, there is finally some free time, when everyone can relax - children and counselors.
If there are no classes at school during the second shift that day, after lunch the so-called “absolute” begins - a time of absolute silence, when there is no playing, running, screaming, or laughing in the residential building or rooms. No one forces you to sleep, but making noise is strictly prohibited, because... others can rest.
There is always a counselor on duty in the residential area during abolut or just an afternoon rest. They are on duty according to schedule from different units. As a result, each counselor is on duty approximately every 2 weeks

18. Our squad had school that day after lunch, so instead of an absolute, there was a free hour. Some people need to lie down before school, others need to collect everything they need, others need to socialize and get to know their peers better.
Then board the bus and go to school. The school is located away from residential buildings, so children are brought to it from each camp by bus

19. Here it is, Artek Hogwarts. I’ll make a separate report about him and the teaching methods at this unusual school a little later.

20. While the children are at school, the counselors finally have free time. We set off to spend it the way most of them spend it - relaxing in their mini-campus.
All counselors live in a large building, which is called “Counselor”.

21. From the porch of the building there is a simply gorgeous view of Ayu-Dag. A view that any vacationer in Crimea can envy.

22. Sports ground of the "Counselor" building. Below you can see the Artek stadium.

23. Corridor of the residential floor. Everything here is beautiful, neat and very soulful.

24. Counselors live in rooms of 3 or 4 people.
Some are 3 months, some are a year or more.
It all depends on the status of the counselor at Artek. There is a permanent contingent working under a contract (signed for a period of a year after completing special training courses here), there are shifting ones - university students undergoing teaching practice.

25. In addition to the living room, each residential block has a small kitchen and its own bathroom.

25. On the top floor of the building, the counselors have their own gym, quite decently equipped

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27. Separate room for washing clothes

28. There are vending machines with snacks and drinks on each floor. Prices are reasonable, without hellish markups

29. After school, counselors come to pick up the children at school, take them to dinner, and then an evening program.
There is entertainment, but often there is preparation of various competitions or events in which this or that squad participates.
On the day when I was on duty as a counselor, our squad was just preparing a skit for the competition. The counselor’s task is not to tell the children what and how to do, but to give them the opportunity to express their ideas, defend them and jointly decide how and what they will do in the end. It was also interesting to watch the children in such a non-standard situation for their age.
But since trips to Artek are awarded as rewards for achievements in studies, creativity, sports and social activities, they are fine with creative ideas

30. Of course, what would Artek be without a fire and gatherings around it.
Each camp has its own fire pits, where in the evenings, if the weather is good and the plan for the day has been completed, the groups gather in a circle and discuss their day, impressions and everything that they want to talk about at that moment.

31. Well and then... then lights out, at 22.30.
Children are taken to their rooms and left under the control of the counselor on duty.
The rest of the counselors go off to fill out a report about the day, and then, before going to bed, they gather once again for a final planning meeting. So the counselor can only go to bed after midnight. To get up again in the morning at 6.00-6.30 and go to the morning planning meeting before the children get up...

What do you think, is being a counselor at Artek a job or a vacation?