Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot185210.32687/0869-866X-2023-31-4-665-669Научная статьяTHE SOURCES OF ORGANIZATION OF RECREATION AND HEALTH IMPROVEMENT IN ARTEK: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FIRST TURNSKoptsevaA. V.The State Budget Educational Institution “The International Children Center “Artek””, 298645, Yalta, The Republic of Crimea, Russia2508202331466566903072025Copyright © 2023,2023The article describes historical period of becoming of Artek as children camp in the first half of the 1920s. The facts that are insufficiently covered in publications are cited. Before the opening of the first children health camp, immense regulatory and organizational work was carried out. Its experience is invaluable. The Peoples Commissar of Health Care Nikolai Alexandrovich Semashko and the first chief physician of Artek Fedor Fedorovich Shishmarev significantly influenced both on factual organization of institution of new format and becoming and consolidation of system of childfren health protection at its very initial stages. F. F. Shishmarev collected materials that permitted to analyze medical activities of the camp in first two years of its existence. The special attention is paid to comparative analysis of morbidity and evaluation of the results of stay of children in the camp. According to the outcomes of successfully conducted first turns of 1925—1926, the young Soviet government adopted decision to develop the given direction of activity, positioned at the junction of educational, ideological and recreational work.Artekchildren campchildrenchildren recreationhealth carehealth improvementhealth protection.Артекдетский лагерьдетидетский отдыхздравоохранениеоздоровлениеохрана здоровья.1.Солдатова Т. О. Роль Н. А. Семашко и З. П. Соловьева в развитии советского здравоохранения. Моя профессиональная карьера. 2020;1(9):135—9.2.Куприянов Б. В. Загородный детский лагерь в исторической ретроспективе. Вестник Московского городского педагогического университета. Серия: Педагогика и психология. 2018;1(43):86—97.3.Шишмарев Ф. Ф. Лагерь в Артеке. Издание Центрального Комитета Общества Красного Креста РСФСР. М.: Мосполиграф; 1926. 56 с.4.Шишмарёв Ф. Ф., Зак М. Пионерский лагерь-санаторий Красного Креста в Артеке. М.: Издание ЦК Общества Красного Креста РСФСР; 1927. С. 8—58.