A cancellation ceremony dedicated to the 90th foundation anniversary of the International Children's Center "Artek" was held June 16.
The participants of the ceremony were Oleg Dukhovnitskiy, the Head of the Federal Communications Agency; Alexey Kasprzhak, CEO of the International Children's Center "Artek"; Maria Dzhakaeva, the winner of the All-Russian contest of drawing of a postage stamp.
Oleg Dukhovnitskiy congratulated the International Children's Center on the anniversary and told that "Artek "is an epitome of joy, friendship, romance, inexhaustible creativity and energy for children. It is important that the author of the image of the postage stamp is not a professional artist, but the 11-year-old girl Maria Dzhakaeva from Gurzuf. She could convey the warm atmosphere of the children's center, and now she is known to the whole country".
Alexey Kasprzhak, the Director of the Children's Center, told that because of the participation and victory in the competition Masha fulfill his dream and got a ticket to the "Artek".
FSUE "Marka" Publishing and Trading Centre and the International Children's Center "Artek" were organized an All-Russian Competition of Drawing. During 3 months it was sent more than 400 works from all regions of Russia. The competent jury selected 15 best sketches. Maria Dzhakayeva with her sketch "Funny Bear" took the first place according to the results of a voting. The sketch depicts the mountain Ayu-Dag/Bear Mountain (the symbol of "Artek") and the shoreline with the children's center "Artek" beaches.
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Nowadays "Artek" is the most famous children's center, which takes about 30 thousand children in a year.
Artek as a children's camp-resort was founded on the initiative of Z. Soloviev, the chairman of the Russian Red Cross June 16, 1925. 80 pioneers from Moscow, Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Crimea were came on the first shift. Two years later, plywood houses were built on the beach line, and in the 1930s a winter-house was built and the children's center started to work all year long.
Stamps, dedicated to "Artek" were already issued in USSR: "In a Pioneer Camp "Artek" (1938; face value: 30 kopecks), "Artek". Pioneers in the Field" (1948; face value: 45 kopecks), "Bugler in the Pioneer Camp "Artek " (1958; 10 kopecks), 4 cop. "60 years of the Union Pioneer Camp "Artek" named after Vladimir Lenin" (1985; face value: 4 kopecks). In the mid-1970s it was issued a postcard with an original stamp dedicated to "Artek", stamped envelopes were issued repeatedly.
In addition to the issue of a postage stamp FSUE "Marka" Publishing and Trading Centre was prepared to the release an illustrated cover with 1 stamp and an FDC with cancellation (Gurzuf) inside.
The author of a picture: M. Dzhakaeva
Design: H. Betredinova
Face value: 26.50 RUB
Size of stamp: 50 mm × 50 mm, size of sheet: 180 × 130 mm
Form of issue: sheet with illustrated margins of 6 (3 × 2) stamps
Circulation: 240 thousand stamps (40 thousand sheets)
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