Ilsur Metshin: “I am grateful to the Pioneer summer camps for the best childhood memories”

Kazan children's health camps will open tomorrow. During the first shift, more than 2.3 thousand children will rest in municipal institutions, and in total, during the summer they will admit 13.5 thousand schoolchildren. 358 counselors will work in municipal camps. The Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin inspected the readiness of the camps to admit young Kazan residents and spoke to the counselors who visited Unitur camp for a general methodical class before the opening of the summer season.

“This is a new level of children's recreation”

One of the key issues in the preparation of the camp is its safety. All municipal city camps have special facility certificates, they are fenced and guarded around the clock by private security companies. The facilities have access control and video surveillance, police officers regularly patrol children's health camps. This was told to the Mayor by the head of the Yal city center Konstantin Krainov. Before the arrival of children, each camp undergoes a series of checks and receives permits from Rospotrebnadzor, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Russian National Guard.

The Unitur camp will organize four shifts this season. After renovation, the camp with almost half a century of history has retained its sports and tourism focus, and its capacity has increased one and a half times - from 70 to 100 people per shift.

The head of the city looked around the new modular sleeping buildings, as well as tents. “Since the camp is focused on sports and tourism, children live in summer houses for half of the shift, and the other half in tents.

The Mayor of Kazan inspected sports grounds for mini-football and volleyball and a rope park, the only one in the suburban camps of the Volga region.

“The right approach to children is the key to their good rest in the camp”

During the visit to the camp, I. Metshin met with counselors and teachers of the Yal center. The Mayor noted that the qualified camp personnel is of great importance for recreation. “We are renovating youth camps. Believe me – these are not the conditions in which we rested many years ago. Comfortable buildings, renovated canteens, sports grounds and even a rope park. Now it is important for us to ensure the camps with an interesting and diverse program”, - Ilsur Metshin said.

This summer, 358 counselors will work with children in municipal camps. Before the start of the season, 100 of them were trained in psychology, pedagogy, game technology, safety basics, pre-medical care and passed the qualification exam.

All-Russian festival for counselors and the new building of the Yal Center

During the meeting with the counselors, Ilsur Metshin noted that with the support of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, the country camps are being renovated.

“You are so lucky, because some of the brightest moments of youth happened in summer camps, - the Mayor added. - I am grateful to the Pioneer summer camps for the best childhood memories. It is necessary to fully enjoy this time, because that is what you will remember”.

The counselors, in turn, shared with the head of the city their ideas on promotion and development of the counselors' movement in Kazan. They offered the Mayor to hold an All-Russian festival or forum for counselors in the capital of Tatarstan. I.Metshin supported the initiative and proposed the Zarechye and Vostok camps as host venues for the event.

Kristina Lukina, addressing the Mayor, said that the Yal city center has developed many projects, but there is no suitable facility for their implementation. The head of the city proposed to allocate an office next to the educational cluster of the city in order to ensure the collaboration of Yal center with the leading universities of Kazan. He instructed Guzel Sagitova, deputy head of the Executive Committee, to work out this issue and prepare a draft.