Zerkalny camp, children's summer camp in Leningrad oblast, Russia
Zerkalny camp stands on the shore of Lake Zerkalnoye in the Vyborg district of Leningrad oblast, next to the Zerkalny stop on the Zelenogorsk–Primorsk–Vyborg railway line. Its two building phases were designed by architects of LenNIIproekt under P. S. Prokhorov, with construction starting in 1966 by trust No. 104. The second phase, completed in 1972, added a school building with a 600-seat cinema-concert hall, a sailor's house with a boat base, a young naturalist's house with greenhouses and animal enclosures, and a stadium with a football pitch.
In 1964 a commission chose Lake Zerkalnoye over Lake Krasavitsa as the site; legend says the spot was fixed where a cow moose and calf were met. Design began in 1965 under architect P. S. Prokhorov of LenNIIproekt, construction started in 1966 by trust No. 104, and the first shift arrived on 14 July 1969, the camp's birthday. A second stage added a school with a 600-seat hall, a sailor's house with a boat base and a young naturalist's house in 1972.
The camp's name comes from Lake Zerkalnoye, where a commission chose the site in 1964 over Lake Krasavitsa; legend says the spot was where they met a moose cow and calf. Its 1979 museum documents the camp's Komsomol and Pioneer activist tradition, and the camp's birthday is celebrated on 14 July.
The camp stands on the shore of Lake Zerkalnoye in the Vyborg district of Leningrad oblast, with the Zerkalnoye stop on the Zelenogorsk–Primorsk–Vyborg railway line next to it. The camp runs both summer and winter health seasons, and from 1983 its school took pupils in grades 4 to 9 through the whole academic year. Access is arranged through the St. Petersburg City Palace of Youth Creativity, which the camp belongs to.
The camp's railway platform was built by staff and children and opened in 1977 as platform 86 kilometre; it now bears the name Zerkalnoye. The camp museum, created in 1979 for its tenth anniversary, documents the Komsomol and Pioneer activists.
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