Artek FSBEI MDC International Children's Center

2025 The government allocated more than 71 billion rubles to the children's camp

On December 20, 2025, the Russian government approved the development program of the Artek International Children's Center for 2026-2030 with a total funding of 71.76 billion rubles. The corresponding order is published on the website of the government of the Russian Federation.

According to the document, the program budget is distributed by year:

• 7.7 billion rubles for 2026;
• 6.2 billion - for 2027;
• 7.2 billion - for 2028;
• more than 21.5 billion - for 2029;
• almost 29 billion rubles - for 2030.

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The allocation of funds from the federal budget will be updated annually. The new program continues large-scale financing of the center: in 2021, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin approved the previous Artek development plan until 2025 with a budget of 33.8 billion rubles. The program provides for the modernization of infrastructure, the preservation of cultural heritage sites on the territory of the center, advanced training of employees and the opening of foreign representative offices of Artek.

The development of the material base provides for the continuation of the active construction of previous years. As the website of Channel One reported, on November 19, 2025, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin reported on the commissioning of the Center for Innovative Educational Technologies in the Solnechny camp. The center with an area of ​ ​ more than 27 thousand square meters. m is designed for simultaneous education of more than 1 thousand children. The construction was carried out by the company "Single Customer" (general director - Karen Hovhannisyan) as part of the state program for the development of Crimea and Sevastopol.

The construction of a residential building for counselors with 400 seats also continues.

Director of the Artek MDC Konstantin Fedorenko emphasized the importance of new objects for the educational process. The center, founded in 1925 and received federal status after 2014, annually accepts more than 40 thousand children. In 2025, Artek set a record for receiving foreign children - 2,550 people from 81 countries.^[1][2][3][4]

2023: Data breach of hundreds of thousands of children and their parents

In early July 2023, it became known about the leakage of data from hundreds of thousands of children from Artek and their parents. Roskomnadzor began checking.

According to the Telegram channel "Information Leaks," two files were merged in total: in one there are 747,820 lines, in the other - 755,828 records. The leaked database contains the following information:

• Name of the child and parent;
• The email address of the child and parent
• the telephone number of the child and parent;
• date of birth;
• gender;
• address;
• SNILS;
• passport or birth certificate number;
• citizenship;
• a place of study.
• signs of proficiency in foreign languages, passing TRP standards, a poor family, membership in Yunarmiya, hobbies, health restrictions, etc.

There was a data leak of hundreds of thousands of children from Artek and their parents

According to the Telegram channel "Information Leaks," the merged email addresses are valid.

Roskomnadzor is checking information about a possible leak of personal data in the Artek MDC, the agency said in a statement on July 6, 2023.

According to the law on personal data, the operator must notify Roskomnadzor within 24 hours from the moment of leakage. The operator notified Roskomnadzor about the incident within the time frame established by law, the service added.

Karina Babina, head of the information policy department of the Artek International Children's Center, in an interview with Reedus, commented on reports of a massive leak of these vacationers. According to her, this information is not confirmed.

There is no such information yet, we will check, let's see, - said Babina on July 5, 2023.

The federal state educational institution "MDC" Artek is located in the Crimea, 12 km from Yalta, is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.^[5]

2016 - 2017: Solnechny Campus

In addition to the reconstruction of old buildings, the construction of new camps will begin in Artek, in which children will be able to relax and study. So, for example, in 2017, the Solnechny camp complex will be built with 2 sleeping buildings of 500 seats each, a dining room and an educational campus with 1,500 seats, designed for students from other camps.

The Solnechny campus is an innovative school of the future that will focus on children's self-education and communication. In addition to regular offices, the campus will have workshops for a variety of types of creativity, a lot of space is allocated for sports, and there will be its own pool. A unique feature of the campus will be a 1,500-seat theater - with full mechanization of the stage, with its own recording studio and rooms for music circles.

2014: Artek 2.0. Reset

To revive the prestige of Artek, but already at a new, modern level, in 2014 the concept of the development of the entire camp complex was developed, called Artek 2.0. Reboot, "which provides for the introduction of the most advanced and innovative forms of education in the international children's center. But first it was necessary to carry out a virtually complete reconstruction of the camps themselves: to rebuild or restore buildings, roads, sports grounds, to build new facilities.

The first work began in the fall of the same year, 2014, and was carried out around the clock for 9 months in order to be in time for June 1, 2015 - the beginning of the first summer shift. Six old camps were restored that season. The best specialists were involved in design and construction work, and materials for reconstruction and decoration were selected with special care, focusing on international standards.

The first thing that attracts attention in the updated interior of the dining room "Circle" is bright and unusual ceiling panels. Among them, the freely hanging white circle-shaped elements are Ecophon Solo Circle ceilings, which perform a dual function indoors: on the one hand, they are a decorative element, and on the other, they improve the acoustics in the dining room. The use of the Ecophon Solo Circle allowed architects to create an acoustically comfortable space in such a complex room as a dining room, and at the same time find an interesting design solution.

1977

The name "Artek" in Soviet times was known to any student. The very best were sent to this largest and most beautiful pioneer camp of the USSR, spread out on the Crimean coast. The ticket to Artek was an award, the change in it was an event that was remembered for life.

Exchange of gum inserts in one of the camps of Artek, USSR, 1977.]]

Politicians and astronauts, writers and heroes came here. Foreign delegations admired the "children's republic," and the experience of working with children developed in Artek was used not only in our country.

1973

CAR president, progressive social activist Jean Bedel Bocassa in the pioneer lager Artek, 1973. In three years, he will declare himself emperor

1969

All-Union pioneer camp "Artek," 1969

1932

1925: Opening of the camp

The Artek pioneer camp 16.06.1925 opened in Crimea, at that time consisting of four large canvas tents.

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