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Young Pioneer camp "Skazka"
A psychedelia time! “Skazka” (“A Fairy Tale” in Russian) is an abandoned Young Pioneer camp southwest of Yakhroma to the north of Moscow. It was built in the 1980s for the children of employees of the Soviet central printing house "Children's Book" and closed in 1997, when the printing house ran out of money.
After closure, the camp was guarded for some time by full-time employees, for whom a two-story apartment building was built on the territory. After the final bankruptcy of the printing house, the camp is slowly decaying, the former staff earn their living by breeding bees and goats.
And collecting money from curious people of course. The main entrance is closed; you can enter the territory from the western side, where the staff house is located.
Ten years ago the concrete figures were more intact and the colors were richer.
Sculptures on the facade of the main building with an assembly hall, a dining room and a library.
Assembly Hall.
Figures of fairy-tale characters.
Someone threw a party and trashed an old soda machine and laptop.
An owl at the exit from the assembly hall.
Cringe lizards.
Library.
Dining room with unwound conveyor belt, piano and morel columns.
Most of the residential buildings are decorated with all sorts of octopuses, fish and starfish.
It's the same inside.
Even Lenin is made in a similar style.
There are three buildings without decoration. One was simply looted.
In the second, all sorts of kitchen mechanisms have been preserved.
And the third one seems to have even been mothballed.
Few traces of children's presence.
There is also a bomb shelter.
Remains of everyday life.
In general, despite the rapid deterioration, this is still one of the most unusual pioneer camps in Russia.
Getting there (as of September 2023): about an hour ride by car. Public transport is limited but you catch hail a taxi near "Turist" station (the trains there depart from Savelovskiy rail terminal in Moscow).
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