Soviet Youth by Dorothea L. Meek

Author:Dorothea L. Meek [Meek, Dorothea L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781136281839
Google: WUrzE2Oh6rwC
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-04T05:48:29+00:00

1 See footnote 1, p. 62 above.

2 Some Houses of Pioneers apparently make a rule of admitting only pupils who do well at school. This practice is condemned (e.g. Rabotnitsa, 1955, no. 8, p. 26), since the other children are considered to stand in greater need of the special attention provided by the Houses.

Pioneers Spend the Summer in the City

An Account of Comprehensive1 Pioneer Groups and Detachments Working in the Schools and Dwelling Houses of Leningrad

By A. Filippov, Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the Komsomol for Schools

(Komsomolskaya Pravda, May 27, 1949)

WHILE the annual examinations and tests were still going on in the schools, the party, soviet, trade union and komsomol organisations had already begun on the great work of organising the children’s summer holidays. This year 110,000 children—many more than last year—will spend some of their holidays in pioneer camps in the picturesque countryside around Leningrad, on the Karelian Isthmus, on the banks of the Neva and by the Gulf of Finland. In accordance with the resolutions passed at the XI Komsomol Congress,2 the komsomol organisation of Leningrad is taking steps to improve its work among pioneers and schoolchildren in general this summer. It is trying to make the activities interesting, good for the children’s health, in short, to provide a sensible holiday for them. We have estimated that about half the children of school age spend the summer in the city. It is very important that educational and health facilities should be provided for these children.

Our summer activities for children in the city are organised in conjunction with the education departments. Comprehensive pioneer groups catering for children of school age are formed in schools, dwelling houses and district Houses of Pioneers.

In the October district, for instance, eleven such groups are being formed: nine of them attached to schools, one to a group of dwelling houses, and one to the district House of Pioneers. In school no. 241 the garden has been widened, and a sports ground complete with equipment has already been laid out by the komsomols. The group will be led by the senior pioneer leader Arseneva and by the teacher Nazarova. The programme for the comprehensive group has been discussed at a special meeting of teachers. Apart from these groups, the October district committee of the komsomol and the education department have decided to set up 20 comprehensive detachments in dwelling houses. These detachments will be led jointly by teachers and pioneer leaders.

Comprehensive pioneer groups and detachments are being created in all the districts of Leningrad. As a rule, a group of this kind comprises between 200 and 300 people. A senior pioneer leader is in charge. The group is split up into detachments (about 50 people in each) headed by detachment leaders. Every group has a teacher, a P.T. instructor and a trained nurse.

What will these groups do during the day? Very much the same as the camps outside the town. In the morning there will be the hoisting of the flag, drill and P.

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