ORGANIZING CHILDREN'S RECREATION IN SUMMER CAMPS IN THE USSR IN THE 1920s-1945s (on the example of the Kirov region)
The article analyses healthy life style programs for children and youth in the USSR during 1920-1930-s within the framework of the state policy and the domestic pedagogical theory. The authors focus on the issues of sanitation and hygiene, PE and labour activities in children's summer camps. Certain strategies to organize children's pastime during the summer are discussed. Analysis of the social and historical sources and archival documents allows to draw a conclusion about a special focus the Soviet state youth policy made onto the following: encouraging active physical training, developing skills of personal hygiene and household hygiene, preventing diseases in the youth environment, fighting against harmful habits among young people.