the heading of my wonderful colleague is such a polite and beautiful version of varenkov's soviet chroniclean just a place of rest for children, a unique network of pioneer camps literally enveloped the entire country nowhere in the world. children's recreation was not organized on such a large scale so centrally, as in the ussr we will plunge into the very origins. the first pioneer camps logically appeared immediately after the creation pioneer organization. and this is in 1922. true, they were aimed more at agitation than at recovery, the city children went out, put everything in army tents on the shoulders of the pioneers, fell, the difficult task of creating a mental bridge between the city and the countryside, however, in 1924, the party took a completely different course in this matter, deputy people's commissar of health zinovy solovyov proposed to introduce rehabilitation into camps for children, after all, after the hungry years of the civil war, there were many homeless children in the country. for they organized orphanages to restore their health. they began to take them to the