Witness History
Witness History
Crimea's Soviet holiday camp
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February 27, 2024
9 minutes
Available for over a year
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)