Niva (children's camp in Gelendzhik)

As of 2025, the camp territory is 12 hectares of one of the most beautiful forest park zones in Gelendzhik. Pitsund pine, blue spruce, Lebanese cedar, cypress, tui and sycamore decorate the camp area, create a favorable microclimate for resting children.

History

2004: Rostselmash separates the camp into a separate legal entity

In March 2004, the NIVA Children's Health Camp was allocated to the NIVA year-round Children's Health Camp by liquidation as a structural unit of Rostselmash OJSC. The founder is OJSC. "Rostselmash

1999: Camp renamed "Niva"

In 1999, the camp was renamed the "Children's Health Camp of the Sanatorium Type" NIVA "OJSC" Rostselmash. "

1960: The third largest children's camp on the Black Sea coast

In 1960, the camp was named after Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. In Soviet times, the camp was one of the three largest camps on the Black Sea coast, after 'Artek' and 'Eaglet'.

1942: On the territory of the camp, the headquarters of the Novorossiysk naval base of the Black Sea Fleet

During the Great Patriotic War, during the struggle for Novorossiysk, the headquarters of the Novorossiysk naval base of the Black Sea Fleet under the command of Rear Admiral G.N. Holostyakov was located on the territory of the camp. When the last volleys died out, builders reappeared on the seashore and in 1944 the first detachments of pioneers arrived in the camp.

1934: Rostselmash Children's Tent Camp

In 1934, the Rostselmash children's camp was built in Gelendzhik on the Black Sea. The purpose of creating a children's camp in Gelendzhik was the need to organize recreation for children and employees of the Rostselmash plant in Rostov-on-Don. The first two detachments then settled on a wasteland in the area of ​ ​ Tolstoy Cape. In the first year there was no water, electricity, the children lived in tents. But the very next year, the camp received 150 children a month.