International Children's Center "Artek" - Federal State Budgetary educational institution(FGBOU), which is subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. "Artek" is located in the Crimea, in one of the most beautiful places on the planet - on the Black Sea coast, 12 km from the famous southern coastal resort - the city of Yalta, in the urban-type settlement of Gurzuf. The coastline with children's beaches stretches for 7 km from Mount Ayu-Dag (Bear Mountain) to the village of Gurzuf. Established in 1925, the small summer tent camp of the Artek International Children's Center has turned into a country of childhood over the past nine decades - a complex of 10 children's camps with a developed infrastructure, its own educational technologies and cultural traditions. Reboot In 2014, the Concept for the Development of the International children's center Artek - Artek 2.0. Reboot”, the goal of which is to turn the children's center into the best international platform for the creation, testing and implementation of innovative forms of general and additional education as well as health improvement and recreation for children. The concept provides for the almost complete reconstruction of Artek: the restructuring of all buildings, sites, the construction of new facilities. And most importantly - updating the content of pedagogical activity. In March 2015, the Russian government approved the Artek Development Program for 2015-2020. Since the autumn of 2014, Artek began to acquire a new look, and a global reconstruction of the children's center began. For 9 months, work was carried out around the clock to repair and reconstruct facilities. By the beginning of the first summer session of 2015, which started on June 1, six children's camps were reconstructed - "Azure", "Amber", "Crystal", "Sea", "River" and "Lake". Three more children's camps - "Forest", "Field" and "Cypress" - accepted the first children in the summer of 2016. All camps comply with the requirements of Rospotrebnadzor, the norms and standards of Russian legislation. In 2016, about 30,000 children will have a rest in Artek. In record time to summer season 2016 repaired and reconstructed: 35 residential buildings capable of simultaneously receiving about 3,000 children; 6 canteens with a total capacity for 3,700 children; universal sports hall with a total capacity of 1,000 people; swimming pool with sea water (with a simultaneous visit of 60 people), 9 outdoor sports grounds, 3 tennis courts, 5 campfire sites, more than 15 km of roads, sidewalks and footpaths, more than 50 hectares of landscaping. According to Olga Golodets, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Artek is once again becoming the flagship among children's camps in Russia. fill up contemporary content his educational programs, a high-quality and comfortable children's environment appears. Since 2015, a trip to Artek has been a reward for a child. The main condition is the achievement of the child in any area: in studies, sports, creativity. For children, Artek has 16 children's art studios, 3 libraries, children's television and the Artekfilm studio. Upon arrival at Artek, children can enroll in specialized groups of Young Sailors, Young Journalists, Young Animators, a tourist team, and become a member of a children's excursion bureau. In the summer of 2016, a modern climbing wall and a rope park were put into operation. Museum and exhibition complex "Artek" includes 5 studio-museums. Among them is the Cosmos Museum, founded in 1967 by the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin. Here are unique exhibits that have been in space and were presented to Artek residents by cosmonauts from different countries. For those who are friends with sports and prefer active recreation, Artek has 8 equipped sports grounds and courts, 3 outdoor pools with slides, a Sports Palace with an indoor pool, gymnastics, tennis and gyms. The Artek Central Stadium with 7,000 seats meets all international standards. Artek has its own school for 1224 students. Artek pupils of 5-11 grades study there. The school has modern technical means, in accordance with new methods and educational technologies, which allows solving educational problems of any complexity. Currently, teachers are working on the creation of the concept "Artek - a space of interaction." Training sessions are held not only at the school desk, but also in museums, in parks, on the seashore. The program of the Artek shift includes excursions along the southern coast of Crimea. Since 2015, children have been visiting the hero city of Sevastopol again, getting acquainted with the cultural and historical sites of Crimea, and setting out on green tourism routes. Artek residents actively rest at tourist bases - Dubrava (1100 m above sea level) and Krinichka (700 m above sea level). Each of them can accept 40 people at the same time. They are located in the mountains of the Crimean nature reserve. The safety of children's stay in Artek is ensured by a special police department and the internal security department of the children's center.

In this shift, the children arrived at night. Almost all at once. Our camp accommodated about 300 children and it was a busy night.

Artek operates a so-called “closed transfer” scheme for children. This means that not a single child should be left unattended for a single minute. This requirement forced the creation of a whole system of accompanying children throughout the rest. At Artek, every step is planned a day ahead. Therefore, all the counselors worked at the race without exception - someone met from the bus, someone accompanied them to the distribution by squads, and so on.

First of all, the children get to the reception center, where they leave all their bags in the storage room. You can take with you only the most necessary things that you may need during the day. Everything edible is mercilessly confiscated - absolutely all food, except for candy, flies into a trash can or a special box (where it goes from the box is another question ...). This, of course, is correct - no one is poisoned by rotten sausage and does not collect a shelter for insects.

Further, the children are sent for distribution by detachments, then they hand over pocket money to the cashier in order to exclude 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 by the whole village, when a bucket of water is passed from hand to hand.

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

7.30 - Meeting of teachers

8.00 - Wake up children

8.10 - Charging

8.30 – Breakfast

9.00-13.00 - Beach, creative, sports, group events

13.00-13.30 - Lunch

14.00-15.30 - Quiet time

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 - Meeting of teachers

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

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

Thus, the counselor should be at the workplace at 7.30, and can leave it after 23.30. But in practice, evening meetings ended at 3 am. From the hostels to the children's building ~ 15 minutes at a fast pace, so you need to get up no later than 6.30. We never managed 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 sleep problems, 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 is working, two are sleeping. One is at the planning meeting, the second is raising the children, the third is getting linen, and so on. If for some reason children are divided into 2 groups, each of them should have a teacher. If everyone is outside the building, and one person wants to go to the toilet, the second teacher should go to the building with him or, if he is not there, we go with the whole detachment. 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. For this they can be reprimanded. Several reprimands - dismissal. During the so-called organizational period (the first 3 days) it is considered 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 arrival, she was absent for half a day on urgent business.

These measures are absolutely understandable - all for the sake of the safety of children and teachers (who are responsible with their heads up to criminal liability for each child). The Crimea is full of poisonous plants, there are dangerous insects and snakes; the mountain landscape threatens with injuries 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 absolutely dependent animals. “Ruslan, where is our corps?”; “Ruslan, where is the toilet?”; “Ruslan, when we go to the storage room, do I need sneakers?”; “Ruslan, I drenched myself, what should I do?”; “Ruslan, I forgot my Panama hat, but what should I do?”; "Where?... And when?... And what?... And where?... And how?". Five hundred thousand million questions per second multiplied by thirty people all day long. Despite the fact that you yourself do not know the answers to most of them. You still only vaguely imagine the plan of the vast territory of the camp, you yourself do not have enough information and experience.

All children always load counselors with questions. But in other camps, you can teach a child to solve some problems on his own. You can 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, after a week, you can get distracted from the functions of the duck mother and do more work. high level. In Artek, however, the children's ability to make independent decisions seriously atrophies during a shift, and the counselor is basically a guide.

Comes to the point of absurdity. On one of the excursions, we spent the entire time allotted for inspecting the object standing in line for the toilet, since the children should all be together. As a result, when asked at home how you went on the Diorama tour, the children can answer: “We had a good pee.”

Masha for a long time, if possible, avoided planning meetings. She was afraid to walk on them. When I first got to the planning meeting, I felt like the hero of a film where the main character was put in prison by mistake and now he needs to learn to live according to the laws of the zone. Most of the evening briefings summing up the results of the day consisted of a harsh and ruthless scolding of specific counselors who made mistakes in their work. The newcomers were not touched, but I realized that this was for the time being.

Moreover, the dressing was arranged not only by the senior leaders, who, as a rule, held these meetings, but also by the leaders 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 are a schmuck. You are a complete nonentity for your children and other teachers. They don't put you in anything.<….>And if someone does this again, I will find this person and destroy him, first morally, and then, around the corner, physically ... ”. I’ll explain right away that I didn’t observe criminality and assault in Artek, all this was just a psychological suggestion. Not always so rough, but often with a powerful aggressive message. To issue harsh criticism to a specific person, to smear it on the wall - it was common at such planning meetings. Speaking in raised tones and obscene language is a frequent occurrence.

We must pay tribute to the senior counselors - Sergey and Anya. This unique people. They never allowed themselves personal insults. They talked only about the work of man. But they did it in such a way that if a person is guilty, he was ready to fail. They praised. And this praise, said in modest words, sounded like a sign of the highest honor. They gave everyone their due. 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 them to maximum efficiency and were themselves best example any of the employees. Including children, the two of them had about 350 people under their supervision, whom they controlled 24 hours a day. I sincerely believe that they have a place among managers largest companies country, and not in a children's camp. If you want to learn how to manage a pack of wolves, go to Artek and learn from Anya and Sergey.

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

"Authorities" are opinion leaders. These counselors stick together and cover each other. They do almost everything better than others, treat the quality of their work as a matter of honor, do not allow themselves to be free. They are experienced, morally more stable, stand in a special account with the leadership. They always take the initiative, express their opinion loudly. Sometimes they can afford a little more than others. When it comes to parsing "buns" they are the first to claim them. The rest of them are afraid, no one crosses their path.

"Non-authorities" nobody respects. Their opinion is not considered. All the aggression and negativity at the planning meetings are poured onto them. They are not afraid to lose them, and the elders often directly threaten them with dismissal. They work the worst of all, often doing what they want. They are never entrusted with responsible affairs and are not given special incentives. Why they are kept at all - I do not know. Apparently from a 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 there is a choice to sleep more with impunity or rehearse the event with children once again, they choose the first one without a doubt. They just go to work. They know how to find loopholes so that life in the camp is completely relaxed. For them good change- this is when there is little work.

Thus, if you work hard like Papa Carlo, you have an easy character (because there are enough heavy ones there anyway) - you get to the “Authorities”. If you are messing around, stupid and freeloading - to "Non-authorities". If for some reason you just spend time in Artek, go to Neutrals.

Alexey Kasprzhak, CEO"Artek"

Masha and I were assigned to the "Authorities" already in the first week. We worked to the fullest. All this was wildly interesting to me, but Masha simply does not know how to do badly what she undertakes. True, we ourselves tried to remain neutral and treat everyone equally friendly.

From these lines, probably, one does not get the best impression about the people in Artek, but this is unfair. With many guys we became good friends and, if there was time, we could become best friends. We continue to correspond to this day. The work efficiency of many Artek counselors is simply over the top. If I have my own children's camp, I will gladly 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 the aggression and not always adequate behavior of employees is in the system by which Artek lives and 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 change of the standard Artek counselor so that you understand.

From the moment the children stopped by, the counselor is no longer his own master. He is completely dependent on the children. The daily duties of any counselor include:

- full support of each child 24 hours a day - you should know about each: where he is and what he is doing. In the dining room, building, on the beach, on excursions, on a walk, at competitions, rehearsals - you should always be there and help in everything;

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

- control of the psychological state. You have to watch the microclimate in the group. Outcasts appeared? Negative leaders? Is your child homesick? Only you can solve these problems. But they definitely need to be addressed. There is a psychologist, but, from experience, his job is simply to advise you and the child in especially difficult situations. 24 hours a day to work for you;

- control of health and physical well-being. It is necessary to monitor the condition of each child from the detachment. You must know individual characteristics and diseases of all children. In which case - to 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 panama hat on their heads if the children are under open sky during the day, and a windbreaker, so as not to get too cold if they are outdoors in the evening. You must know the basics of first aid for a drowning person, with fractures, heart attacks and in other extreme situations. I saw one boy get an open leg fracture during the competition. The bone was sticking out. The counselors, together with the doctor, assisted him: they calmed him down, helped with an injection of an anesthetic, dressing, transportation to an ambulance. This or worse can happen to anyone at any moment;

- Do the job of a guide. "What is the name of this tree?"; "What is the history of the creation of the Suuk-Su Palace?"; “And what is the area of ​​the entire Artek?”; “Are there sharks here?”; "And what is this herb?" “What is interesting in other Artek camps?” You should know the answers to these and other questions. During bus trips to the place of excursions, you should take 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, of course, phones, cameras, tablets, laptops, video games are taken with them. Who is responsible for their safety? That's right, warden. Nothing was lost in my presence, but the counselors told me that the boy had lost his phone. Police officers came and took the counselor to the department for interrogation. If the gadget had not been found (the boy himself remembered where he put it), the counselor could not be sweet.

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

— maintenance of methodological documentation: daily plan for the day; daily filling out a 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", in which the socio-psychological climate is analyzed in detail 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 children. And the documents are empty scribbles for the report. No one fills them in the way that the one who invented them and introduced them meant.

- five hundred thousand million other duties: to receive, hand over linen for the entire detachment - 30 people (it must be changed every week or more often); receive, donate and change Artek clothes for children; monitor the cleanliness and order in the children's rooms, including cleaning the children's rooms after they leave (the cleaners 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: wake up, lights out, meals, quiet time, medical procedures, etc .; much more according to 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 a reaper and a fiend 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, only then up the stairs.

And, in my opinion, almost all of this is correct. counselor - main man at the time of the change in the life of a child who came to a children's camp. And so much must be required of him.

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

There is a punitive service called " hotline". All counselors are afraid of her, like fire. This is a phone number by which any parent can call Artek, where operators will accept any complaint, bring it to the appropriate authority, and punish everyone. Well, not all, but counselors most often. And they call. With me, the girl was suspended from work. She was finishing work at Artek and she needed a reference for another place. Instead - dismissal with a strict reprimand. She just said to one boy who was bad at his duties as president (each squad chooses its own president): "What the hell are you president." I agree, not the best wording to address a child. But the working conditions are not chocolate. And what was actually there is not known. But in Artek, the customer is always right. Because the camp gets paid for it. And counselors can be spent. More will come.

And the children are also not all sweet and kind. There were stories when children played "who will throw the nightstand out of the window next." When the counselor tried to pacify the 17-year-olds who were raging in the middle of the night, and one of them clamped her mouth, pressed her against the wall and said: “We will do what we want. And if you blather, I will ..bu you and say that you seduced me. And he knew the law would be on his side. All this was not with me. I was not a witness. But there is no reason not to believe those who told me this. And these are not the hardest stories. There are a bunch of them. But no one will know about them, except their own. 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, bury them and simply insult them from the bottom of their hearts. Counselors are wonderful boys and whipping girls.

When I invited a girl from the detachment to a slow dance (it’s just that none of her peers invited her and the child became sad), the senior counselor flew up to me and sternly reprimanded: “We don’t dance 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 something to someone - in our country in Lately pedohysteria reached its extreme. In order for you to be imprisoned for 20 years for pedophilia, only the testimony of a child may be enough. What if he's telling a lie? Revenge 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'm not a historian, not an analyst, so I can't say why. But it is obvious that selling socks in the market or taxing in our country is easier and more profitable than teaching and educating children. Apparently the country needs socks. The teacher has been in the ranking of 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 only real terminators can work in Artek.

Salary. A friend from Smolensk called me when I was in the Crimea: “Well, how are you doing in Artek? My friends told me that counselors are paid 60,000 rubles each! Later, I amused many camp leaders 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 have. You can earn extra money - night shifts. This is when you are on duty all night in one of the children's buildings, keep order and you never know what. Sleeping is prohibited. For each such duty they pay 1000 rubles. plus salary. But there are a limited number of such shifts, so everyone is fighting for them. Night duty is divided equally among all, 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 delighted.

You can work together in a squad, and not three, and get 0.5 extra rates. But then the load will be much greater. You can combine the work of a counselor and a physical education teacher, for example. But it will also take two to work. In short, with all the tricks and a load that is enough for three, few people get more than 20,000. For senior counselors who rule everyone in general and also work from dawn to dusk - about 17,000 rubles.

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

fed Fine.

Canteen in one of the Artek camps

But the dining room has only 3-4 menu options. Even after 2 weeks, all dishes begin to pall. And some guys live there for the 4th year. Sooner or later, they still start shopping in stores or go to cafes in Gurzuf.

In addition, 5 meals a day only for children, the counselors have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Dinner at 19.00. You go to bed in 6-7 hours at 2.00. At least once again, you will have to eat in any way. Gurzuf, where Artek is located, is a resort town. Prices there are also resort prices. Considering that you mostly get to the store at night (at other times there is simply no physical opportunity due to work), you go to a 24-hour shop that sells chips, crackers, BPshki and poor sausage cuts with maximum wrapping. This whole tin for the stomach comes out more expensive than healthy food.

In Artek, the guys are losing weight dramatically, the girls are gaining 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. This is just for food and that's it. Probably, it could have been less, but there is no time for budget planning.

Housing. 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 car. Shower on the floor.

Such order in the rooms of counselors never happens

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

Renting a odnushka 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 to be within walking distance of their camp. To some camps from hostels go up to 7 km up a steep mountain. If you don't want to go, take the bus. It's another 30 rubles. per day and 900 per month.

Schedule. Weekends at Artek are like a gopher in the movie DMB: they are there, but most people don’t see them. Like I said, be ready 24 hours 7 days. Getting up at 6.30 am, hanging out at 2.00 am is still a very good option. We also came to work at 3 am, when we need to collect the children for departure.

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

Personal life. With her, the same thing as with the weekend, only worse. Boys are not allowed to visit girls' rooms. Even if both of them are in their third decade. Windows in some rooms are even boarded up. Yes, and there is practically no time for this. However, several couples who came to Artek together even managed to start romances on the side and leave. But, when you live with 7 neighbors in a room and your and your half's free time is a few hours a week; at the same time, there is always not enough 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 where we worked...

Safety. She has a problem too. It gets dark in Crimea at 6 pm. Counselors return home no earlier than 23.30. From children's buildings to hostels - 1.5 km of the road through the area covered with darkness. There is practically no lighting. The road goes through thickets of trees and bushes. At first, we did not attach any importance to this - after all, this is the territory of a children's camp, there are guards at the checkpoint, policemen ply around the perimeter. But then they noticed that other counselors never go alone in the evening. Once 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, do not risk one at a time ... "

It turned out that there were criminal incidents. Shortly before our arrival, the corpse of a guard surfaced on the territory of the camp in one of the bays. After a while, the second one was killed. Who and what - we were not told, but this fact was confirmed by several people. In addition, there were cases of rape of girls-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 frightens passers-by half to death. A woman in a white shroud appeared out of nowhere and almost gave one of the most sensible employees of Artek a heart attack.

White lady "Artek".

Responsibility. In addition to the fact that the counselor is responsible for the life and health of each child in the detachment, the counselor is responsible with his wallet for almost everything he touches and not only. For example, if there are not enough elements bed linen for one of the children - they deduct the leaders of the detachment from the salary.

A special line in the area of ​​​​responsibility, instilling horror in the soul of every leader, is the Artek uniform. Each child, upon arrival at the camp, receives a set of branded clothing - a T-shirt, skirt, trousers, cap, windbreaker, shirt, etc. Leaders 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 their own and children's. The competition for the supply of clothing and bed linen for Artek was won by Bosco, which dressed the Olympic team in Sochi. The value of the contract for 2015 amounted to about 140 million rubles. Here are examples of products with prices:

- T-shirt - 1500 rubles.

- sweatshirt - 2500 rubles.

- polo shirt - 2000 rubles.

- panama hat - 500 rubles.

– leader’s backpack – 8000 rubles.

In total, a set of clothes and accessories (a belt, a backpack) for a counselor comprised about 10 positions and cost the area of ​​his salary for 3 months.

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

Somehow it saves if you sign the label on your clothes. Then there is a chance to find it. The director of the camp suggested that we thread threads through the tags on our clothes and tie them into a chain to make it harder to snitch.

If the child's clothes were lost, the counselors were also asked. However, behind the scenes there was a certain limit of children's things, for which they did not 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 positions. That is, about 400 positions per squad. The likelihood that everything will return intact is very low. The child went to the shower, left the shirt there, in five minutes it was gone (and someone would take home a souvenir from Artek). The children sat down on a bench, took off their panama hats, got up, went, - panama hats are lying. And there are a million such situations. You won’t go to the shower with every child. I personally found on the street and returned to the children 5 things. Our detachment managed to hand over all things and not lose anything (also thanks to my experienced partners), but not everyone was so lucky.

With us, one counselor, resigning, received a calculation. He went negative by 11,000 rubles. for six months of work because of branded things. He didn't go anywhere. Left to work.

Bosco clothes are cool in general, of course. Beautiful. But, in my opinion, it's a mess to put such a liability under these working conditions.

All of the above is happening 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 other directors, I will not retell them. Our camp is near the leader's hostel, to the rest you need to ride several kilometers through the mountains. There are also differences not in favor of other camps.

When you see all this, you begin to understand why the counselors in 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 the 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 leaders of "Artek" 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 was taken over by Russia, camp staff with Ukrainian citizenship needed to obtain Russian citizenship in order to continue working. One counselor, while receiving citizenship, could not officially move into a hostel. For about 5 months, a 20-year-old guy went to work and spent the night on the street. For five months he lived on the street. Would you be able to? I hardly.

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

However, the guys themselves do not complain about life. They do not perceive their place of work as critically as I do. They appreciate what they have. They work with great dedication. Many people really love their job. To be honest, I do not know other such hard-working people who, in spite of everything, entertain and educate other people's children for a penny in the most severe conditions, do not whine and enjoy life. This commands great respect. I sincerely wish the guys with whom we worked, happy life. I rarely see such strong and courageous people.

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

- How is the sea? Resting or swimming?

- No I working.

“Oh, okay…

How do people who have never worked here most often imagine the work of a counselor in Artek? .. Swimming, sunbathing, tasting local wine, walking along the evening beach, well, sometimes you can play for an hour with the kids. Everyone here is waiting for you, they will love, groom and cherish! And you will have a rest, and you will have fun, and you will earn! Are you going to Artek? I envy!

Nope. I swam during the shift twice for three minutes. Walked - once to the embankment and back, when it was half a day off. You have to plow hard. Not enough money. For this city - catastrophically little. The leader is a consumable 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 watched such boys and girls who went through 3 weeks of training in the so-called School teacher(SPR). The idea of ​​the School is that future counselors spend the whole shift here like children. So they join the ranks of the Artekites. They have their own counselors, they live according to the children's regime, they do the same events, go to the sea, come up with their own chants, etc. - all as their future wards.

And at this stage, everything is very fun and easy enough. The guys unite and are charged with unprecedented energy. We saw how the SPR members chirped cheerfully in the evenings near our hostel, sang along with the guitar ... But after the first days real work in the camp, most slumped. They say that of the newcomers who come to Artek, every third 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 do not need to worry about their children, whom they send to this camp.

The safety and health of children is paramount here. Safety and control are top notch. Even with overkill. On the beach, for example, while swimming in a fenced rectangle, the child cannot even plunge headlong - the counselor stands ankle-deep in the water and monitors this. On off-site excursions, children are allowed to buy only 1 bottle of soda and 1 ice cream - nothing else is allowed. Literally.

There is, however, one exception - a trip to Mount Ayu-Dag (mountain-Bear). With the general fanatical attitude of the Artek administration to 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 trail along which the groups move is truly mountainous. In some places you need to climb, dropping on all fours. One wrong move - and you can fly down the rocky slope. And the leaders lead 30 people behind the goose. And in some units, children are 7 years old. They say there have been accidents. No wonder.

Events, creative, sport life, sea, nature, exceptional air, excursions, new friends from all over Russia - children get a lot here. They leave happy, cry at parting, correspond for a long time on social networks, often come back again ... Of course, any child should go to Artek, although getting here is not easy. And I would say no better place for children's recreation, if not in other camps.

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

The head of the international children's camp (ICC) "Artek" Aleksey Kasprzhak, as a result of a simple combination, deprived his employees of entries in the work book, sick leave and vacations. These are the conditions for workers who want to keep the place, put up by the cleaning company, which now serves part of the Artek camps, said Yevgeny Bazhenov, chairman of the Artek trade union committee. The complex of children's camps "Pribrezhny" will be serviced by a cleaning company from Moscow LLC "STK - Ts" (legal address: 105064, Moscow, Puteysky dead end, 6/4, authorized capital: 10 thousand rubles). First of all, the new leadership held a meeting of maids, with whom a collective employment contract from May to October of the current year. They were confronted with a fact: the organization that signed the contract no longer exists (and this despite the fact that the maids signed the contract directly with the Artek ICC). Everyone urgently needs to quit and get a job at STK-C LLC - for a period of about two months. And what is most interesting, everyone will work unofficially: without entries in work books without vacation and without paid sick leave. Salaries will be paid in cash - 2,000 rubles per shift. The same applies to janitors and park workers. The workers, of course, were not satisfied with such a statement of the question, since they have an official contract, which indicates the term of work until the end of October. They did not receive any written notifications about reduction, liquidation and the like. But the employees did not receive an answer to their question about the existing contracts. After the meeting, the maids who went to work according to the schedule were simply not allowed to return to their previous jobs - with the tacit consent of the Artek administration. “The administration, having invited a commercial firm to work - Moscow, of course, - simply decided to get rid of the locals, depriving them permanent job V public institution, and is trying to make guest workers out of us in search of at least some work! This is wonderful: guest workers do not require attention, 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 addressed to the President, the Prosecutor General and labor inspection Crimea. In addition, people turned to the trade union for protection. Bazhenov heads Russian trade union cultural workers of ICC "Artek". There is also another trade union in Artek - workers of education and science of the ICC "Artek". Kasprzhak ordered its creation in order to gradually "strangle", according to Bazhenov, an independent trade union, which consists mainly of ordinary employees of the IDC. The entire apparatus was transferred to a 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 legal service with a request to clarify this incident: can an official simultaneously be the head of public organization. According to Bazhenov, when they started to raise uncomfortable questions, the director of Artek Kasprzhak replied: “Why do I need such a proletarian trade union committee? I need my own - pocket. “Now we call it “pocket” like that,” Bazhenov said. It should be noted that the Pribrezhny complex is not the first division of the IDC whose employees were transferred to an illegal position. Last year there was a conflict in the outsourced canteens commercial structures. Workers also wrote complaints and letters to various authorities, and the case ended with an official reduction of 150 rates in canteens. Employees had to be re-registered for positions not in their specialty or quit altogether. Apparently, the practice of tax evasion and official employment in Artek will continue: according to the information of employees, following the Pribrezhny camp complex, STK-C LLC plans to serve all IDC camps next year.

Vacancy No. 653315 on the site "Work in Russia, the CIS, EAEU countries"

Date of updating the questionnaire of vacancy No. 653315 for the position caregiver on the Internet resource "Works in Russia, the CIS, the EAEU countries": Monday, January 13, 2020

Date of publication of the announcement with vacancy No. 653315 for a vacant position caregiver on the employment portal "Work in Russia, the CIS, the EAEU countries: Tuesday, 7 January 2020 G.

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What is it really like to be a camp counselor?
By all indications - a pure buzz. You hang out at sea, swim, sunbathe, they feed you, and they also pay money. Well, yes, you need to look after the kids, but this is already a matter of what is difficult there.
I tried to figure it out by spending one day with the leaders of one of the detachments in the Artek.
I will 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, leaving it at the end of the contract or returning from practice.
So, it turns out that rest too ...

2. The working day of a counselor in "Artek" begins long before the children get up. It is for them to get up at 7.30, and the counselors get up at 6.00-6.30 to have time to wash, put themselves in order, and then gather at 7.10 for a morning briefing, which is conducted either by the camp director or a senior counselor. The briefing takes place every day and attendance is mandatory. Here all the introductions for the beginning day are reported, 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 leader must fill out an individual plan, transferring activities for the entrusted squad from the general schedule to it.
For example, here is the plan for September 2 of our 18th detachment of the Lazurny camp.
The day is signed in full and throughout the entire time the counselors must without fail accompany children, be near and supervise them. The only exception is school lessons.
The counselors only accompany the children to them, but are not present at the lessons themselves, arriving by bus by the time the classes end to take the detachment 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 had only a little time to communicate with each other and just got acquainted with the traditions of the camp. Prior to this, none of them had been to Artek before, so everything that happens here is new to them.
Many have already managed to wake up and wash themselves, without waiting for the command of the counselors.
By the way, in each detachment there are 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 a night shift on a residential floor.
Night shifts are not an empty formality. Here, as in the army - the night duty officer does not sleep, being on duty and controlling everything that happens in the residential area.

6. Charging at each camp takes place on its site, where all the units gather together and the instructor physical culture is charging

7. After charging immediately breakfast.
Children do not go to 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 that after breakfast everyone goes to wallow in the rooms? No matter how. Half an hour to go to the residential building, take your swimwear and go to the beach...
Each squad bathes in its own sector, separated from the neighboring one by buoys.

9. Lifeguards are always present on the beach; children do not enter the water without the team of the counselor.
The detachment does not bathe all at once, the leaders divide it into groups that bathe in turn.
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 2 on the calendar, and even though the water temperature is 22 degrees, it's easy to 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 thematic classes in the children's art studio.
For my group, this was an introductory session, where the teachers got to know the children, told them what they would do during the shift, and conducted a small group interaction test.

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 highest tower in 5 minutes.
The task seems to be simple, but at the same time difficult. Each team started to solve it differently. In one, the leader immediately stood out, who began to distribute commands-building options. In the other, everyone vied with each other to offer their own options, in the third, everyone tried to build something himself. Then some guessed to fold the sheets into a parallelepiped and, shifting them with a flat sheet, put the parallelepipeds on top of each other. Others, seeing it, gave up their attempts and began to do the same. Still others, they did not copy, but stubbornly built in their own way

13. Finally, two teams got 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. At the third, the tower was built a little differently, from heavily twisted sheets thrust into each other, but due to its high height and complex center of gravity, it also collapsed almost immediately. As a result, the tower won, which was very low initially, for a team that did not try to copy anyone, but it did not have a clear leader. Everyone in it pulled a blanket over himself, as a result - something awkward from crumpled sheets, but ... the only standing tower.

14. At the end of a half-hour lesson, debriefing. Each child should express his opinion and set goals that he wants to achieve in the lesson. children's creativity by the end of the shift.
Thus, children are taught not to be embarrassed by each other, to be able to formulate and express thoughts, set specific goals and be aware of 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 pupils, know their problems, possible difficulties, both in character and physical / health.
In addition, to conduct educational and preventive conversations so that there are no accidents and 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 whole thing! You should have seen how they neatly display their children's signatures)

16. An hour or two, and after classes, it's time for lunch. Again in the dining room, again in formation and again with the leaders.

17. After dinner, there is finally some free time, when everyone can relax - children and counselors.
If on this day there are no classes at school on the second shift, after lunch there comes the so-called "absolute" - a time of absolute silence, when in the residential building and rooms they do not play, do not run, do not shout, do not laugh. No one forces you to sleep, but it is strictly forbidden to make noise, because. others can rest.
In the residential area during abolute or just an afternoon rest, there is always a counselor on duty. On duty according to the schedule from different units. As a result, each counselor gets on duty approximately every 2 weeks

18. Our detachment had a school that day in the afternoon, so instead of the absolute - a free hour. Someone to lie down in front of the school, someone to collect everything they need, someone to talk and get to know their peers better.
Then loading into the bus and the road 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's Hogwarts. About him and teaching methods in this unusual school I'll do a separate report 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, a simply gorgeous view of the Ayu-Dag opens up. A view that any vacationer in the Crimea can envy.

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

23. Residential floor corridor. Everything here is beautiful, neat and very sincere.

24. Counselors live in rooms of 3 or 4 people.
Some for 3 months, some for a year or more.
It all depends on the status of the counselor in "Artek". There is a permanent contingent working under a contract (signed for a period of a year after passing special training courses here), there are shifts - 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, pretty decently equipped

26.

27. Separate room for washing clothes

28. On each floor there are vending machines with snacks and drinks. Prices are reasonable, no extra charges

29. After school, counselors come to school for children, take them to dinner, and then an evening program.
There are entertainment, but often the preparation of various competitions or events in which this or that detachment participates.
On the day when I was on duty as a counselor, our detachment was just preparing a scene for the competition. The task of the counselor 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 children in such a non-standard situation for their age.
But since vouchers to Artek stand out as a reward for achievements in studies, creativity, sports and social activities, With creative ideas they're all right

30. Of course, what kind of "Artek" without a fire and gatherings around it.
Each camp has its own campfire areas, where in the evenings, when the weather is good and the plan for the day is fulfilled, the detachments gather in a circle and discuss the day, impressions and everything that you want to talk about at that moment.

31. Well, 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 leave to fill out a report on the day, and then, before going to bed, they once again gather for the final planning meeting. So the counselor can go to bed only after midnight. In order 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 say, is being a counselor in Artek a job or is it a rest?