Associations (circles and sections) of technical, scientific and technical creativity, environmental education, sports sections, military-patriotic, tourist and local history associations, information technologies. It is located on the right high bank of the Moskva River in the Vorobyovy Gory area. It is the central Palace of Children's Creativity in Russia.

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  Built in 1959-1962. the building is one of the first buildings of a new type, the design of which was entrusted to a group of Moscow artists and sculptors. The complex includes a wide variety of elements of monumental painting and sculpture - panels on the ends of large buildings, wall paintings in the foyer of theaters, reliefs on facades, sculptural signs, reliefs on gratings. Having one drawback, problems with ventilation. All this is united by a single style - lapidary, conditional, gravitating towards symbolic expression, symbolism, emblematics, overcoming descriptiveness. The project was selected as the best as a result of the competition.

  Designer: Yu. I. Ionov.

  Organization

  History of MGDD(Yu)T

  The palace was founded in 1936 as the Moscow City House of Pioneers and Octoberists (Gordom) on Stopani (now Ogorodnaya Sloboda, Chistye Prudy metro station).

  The number of children striving to study in Gordom continuously increased and by the end of the 1950s. it became clear that its walls could not accommodate everyone. In 1958, at the state level, a decision was made to build a new children's complex on the Lenin Hills. On October 29, 1958, a solemn rally was held on the grounds of laying the Palace of Pioneers and a foundation stone was set up on which the inscription was carved: “The City Palace of Pioneers was founded by Komsomol members and youth of Moscow in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Komsomol”. The palace was built with money left after the VI World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Moscow in 1957. The construction of the Palace was a shock Komsomol construction site.

  On June 1, 1962, the grand opening of a new complex on Lenin Hills (hereinafter Sparrow Hills) took place. The first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU P. N. Demichev, secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol S. P. Pavlov, chairman of the Central Council of the All-Union Pioneer Organization L. K. Balyasnaya came to congratulate the children , Minister of Education of the RSFSR E. I. Afanasenko, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Council N. A. Dygay, 1st Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Komsomol B. N. Pastukhov and other honored guests.

  On May 19, 1972, on the day of the 50th anniversary of the All-Union Pioneer Organization, a monument to Malchish-Kibalchish, the hero of a fairy tale from A.P. Gaidar's story "Military Secret" (sculptor V.K. Frolov, architect V.S. . Kubasov). On May 19, 1974, at the foot of the monument, a capsule with earth from the grave of Arkady Petrovich Gaidar was buried, delivered by Moscow pioneers from the Ukrainian city of Kanev. So the monument to the literary hero became a memorial to its creator.

  In 1971, for great success in the communist education of the younger generation, the Palace was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. And in 1981 - the honorary title "Exemplary out-of-school institution" was awarded.

  On September 1, 1988, a branch of the Palace of Pioneers was opened: the House of Scientific and Technical Creativity of Youth near the Shabolovskaya metro station. In 1992, it was reorganized from the Moscow City Palace Pioneers and schoolchildren into the Moscow City Palace of Creativity for Children and Youth. In 2001-2014, it was called the Moscow City Palace of Children's (Youth) Creativity; and from September 1, 2014, it became (after merging with a number of other educational institutions) GBPOU of Moscow "Vorobyovy Gory". Now the Palace is 1,314 study groups and teams (in 93% of them education is free) in 11 educational areas, in which about 15,500 schoolchildren are engaged, the total area of ​​​​the Palace is 48.6 hectares, the total area of ​​​​buildings is 39.3 thousand square meters. m², their volume is 219 thousand m³, the total number of premises is 900 units.

  On January 6, 2007, one of the minor planets in honor of the Moscow City Palace of Children's (Youth) Creativity (Palace of Pioneers) was given the name "Palace of Pioneers" (the international name of the minor planet is 22249 Dvorets Pionerov). The planet was discovered on September 11, 1972 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory and registered in the international catalog under the number 22249, its diameter is about 3 km, the minimum distance from the Earth is 109 million km.

  In 2014, the organization was reorganized into the Vorobyovy Gory State Budgetary Vocational Educational Institution.

  Departments of MGDD(Y)T

  Directors of MGDD(Y)T

  Conferences, seminars, competitions and festivals traditionally held at MGDD(Y)T

  • "Day of the city"
  • "Week of play and toys" (held during the autumn holidays)
  • New Year's performances (held during the winter holidays)
  • "Christmas on Sparrow Hills"
  • "Russian Maslenitsa"
  • "Week Children and Young Book" (held during spring break)
  • "Sons of the Fatherland"
  • Festival "Tolerance Team" (June 12)
  • All-Russian Youth Readings. V. I. Vernadsky (annually, correspondence tour in December-February, full-time tour in April on the basis of DNTTM)
  • City competition of research and design works for schoolchildren in Moscow and Russia "We and the Biosphere"
  • Festival "Young Talents of Muscovy"
  • Assembly “Culture and children”

  Exactly one thing can be said about the Palace of Pioneers on Sparrow Hills: this is the best place in Moscow, and at the same time, it is not a Moscow place at all. It is not clear how it exists in this city, it is not clear how it exists at this time. The asymmetric green area is obliquely dissected by a regular grid of asphalt paths. On one side is a fifty-meter stainless steel flagpole. On the other hand, a light, elongated building with an observatory dome and a visor on disappearing columns. In the center - like a piece of glass of a typical Soviet cinema. There are modernist panels on the facades, and everything is very literal: pioneers, bonfires, pipes, Lenin - where without him. Behind the buildings connected in one complex, ash and walnut trees grow. It is quiet, there are no cars, schoolchildren are walking along the paths - even in the late autumn of 2014, the hopeful 1960s reign here.

  The Palace of Pioneers began to be built immediately after the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in 1957, and opened on June 1, 1962 - six months remained before the publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and an eternity before tanks in Prague. At the parade of pioneers, the red ribbon of the new building was cut by Nikita Khrushchev himself. The Palace of Pioneers is the physical embodiment of the thaw and all the best that was in the Soviet Union. The first post-war generation grew up in the country, which did not have to fight for its existence. And in order to satisfy their needs for creativity, for the first time in Soviet history, a place for an eternal holiday was created for children.

  Palace of Pioneers
  on Sparrow Hills

  A masterpiece of Soviet modernism, a team of authors was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR
  in Architecture 1967

  Architects: Igor Pokrovsky (supervisor), Felix Novikov, Viktor Egerev, Vladimir Kubasov, Boris Paluy, Mikhail Khazhakyan, Yuri Ionov (engineer)

  Years of creation: 1958–1962

  Complex area: 48 ha

  Number of students: 15,500 schoolchildren

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  The construction of the complex became an event in the architectural life of the USSR: several concert and theater halls, swimming pools, a winter garden, an observatory and exhibition spaces were combined in one long building. The competition was won by young and unknown architects under the leadership of Igor Alexandrovich Pokrovsky (the future author of the development of Zelenograd) - everyone in the team of seven people was not even 35 years old. The project became their ticket to life: when the State Prize of the RSFSR in the field of architecture was established in 1967, it was the creators of the Palace of Pioneers who were the first to receive it.

  The decision of the Pokrovsky team was radically different from everything that had happened before: these are very light, elegant buildings that fit well into the natural environment, united by a common laconic and clear style - the complete opposite of the excessive late Stalinist neoclassicism. Despite the half-century anniversary and the need for repairs, they still look fresh, modern and diverse. True, the architects did not manage to bring everything they had planned to the end: already in 1963, funding for the continuation of construction was curtailed.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  The Palace of Pioneers on the Sparrow Hills is not limited to just one square or a modernist ensemble made with undeniable taste. It is much larger than its components, and, getting into this space, you can feel a touch of the sacred. Architecture is not only bricks, glass and reinforced concrete. Architecture always expresses the ideology and mood of society: by the difference between the spacious Novy Arbat and the bulky Akademik Sakharov Avenue, it is easy to imagine the difference between the beginning and the end of the Brezhnev era. The Palace of Pioneers is a living utopia from the time when people believed that they would soon subdue thermonuclear fusion, create a just society and fly to distant planets on a shiny rocket. And therein lies its paradox.

  This complex lives in a parallel reality - by the end of the 20th century, humanity experienced a crisis of faith in progress. No one is interested in a bright future anymore: why explore real space when you can discuss space adventures in Christopher Nolan's new film on social networks? And even more - the hope that it will be better in the future has been replaced by a fear of change and a desire to isolate itself from the future, forget about its existence and return to the past, or at least leave everything as it is. But, being on Sparrow Hills, you do not feel this trouble: progress is great, and the future cannot but be beautiful. Because if it is not beautiful, then why live at all?

  On the square near the Palace of Pioneers, it is easy to believe that everything will be fine. If only for this reason, in the late autumn of 2014 this is the best place in Moscow.

  Photo: Polina Kirilenko

  Minister of Education of Moscow I.I. Kalina is systematically curtailing free educational programs for children in order to rent out the premises of the Palace of Pioneers, and the director of the Palace declares to parents with many children: "His educational resource is not for everyone".

  “The situation at the Palace of Pioneers on Sparrow Hills is deteriorating every day. Unable to liquidate the Palace in 2012 due to mass protests of Muscovites , Minister of Education of Moscow I.I. Kalina is systematically curtailing free educational programs for children in order to rent out the premises of the Palace. Through the lips of the director of the Palace A.A. Shashkova, the Moscow Department of Education told parents of many children: “The palace is an elite educational institution. Its educational resource is not for everyone." Officials are ruthlessly destroying the unique methodological base of the Palace, carrying out mass layoffs of employees, including dismissing teachers at the height of the academic year, ”writes Anna Gennadievna Polunina in LiveJournal with the assistance of the Public Movement for Preserving the Uniqueness of the Moscow Palace of Pioneers.

  PALACE OF PIONEERS = CHILDREN'S ANALOGUE OF MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY + UNIQUE ARTS AND EDUCATIONAL SECTOR + 4 SPORTS SCHOOLS

  “The analogy with Moscow State University is not accidental. Geographically, Moscow State University and the Palace of Pioneers are located in the same park on Sparrow Hills, and for 50 years, teachers of Moscow State University worked part-time at the Palace, and it was thanks to their participation that the Palace was able to develop powerful and unique methodological schools for teaching astronomy, technical modeling, a number of biological and humanitarian disciplines, and foreign languages,” the author of the publication continues.

  “Here we will list only some of the names of the Palace graduates who have made a great contribution to the development of Soviet and Russian art and are well known to the general public. In the Palace in childhood, they studied Natalia Gundareva, Tamara Sinyavskaya, Yuri Bogatyrev, Igor Kvasha and many outstanding actors, directors, writers and other theater and film professionals.

  Finally, graduates of the four sports schools of the Olympic reserve have been raising champions and prize-winners of the Olympic Games and international competitions for decades, such as handball players Ekaterina Andryushina and Yuri Kidyaev, shooters Viktor Vlasov and Alexei Alipov, Olympic swimming champion Marina Koshevaya, grandmasters Mikhail Kobalia and Artur Yusupov. It is also very important that, thanks to the activities in the sports sector of the Palace, thousands of children over several generations had the opportunity to join civilized sports and received the most important experience of communication in a team of peers united by common sports goals and interests.”

  Respectively, The Palace is a universal educational resource visited by children from most parts of Moscow. All of the above is also directly related to the branch of the Palace - the House of Scientific and Technical Creativity of Youth, opened in 1988 on the street. Donskaya. Initially, DNTTM was created by employees of the Palace of Pioneers on Sparrow Hills and all these years functioned as its branch.

  Palace of Pioneers on Sparrow Hills and Minister I.I. viburnum

  To Minister I.I. Kalina was repeatedly asked to increase the transport accessibility of the Palace so that children could get to it on their own: to make a staircase from the Vorobyovy Gory metro station, to launch a special bus for children from the Universitet metro station, etc. But no one responded to requests.

  But dozens of hectares of golden land in the center of Moscow, on which the park of the Palace of Pioneers is located, I.I. Kalina rated very highly. And having come into strong emotional excitement about this, he immediately dismissed the director of the Monakhov Palace and a number of other employees who led the work of this unique center in the most difficult financial years.

  I.I. Kalina declared the Palace "outdated" and "inappropriate" and decided to liquidate the educational center, and instead build a complex of buildings code-named "Irina Viner's school of gymnastics" in the area of ​​​​a monument of landscape art protected by the state. By that time, the same complex of buildings was already being built in the floodplain of the Skhodnya River, so there is no doubt about the intentions of I.I. Kalina and Irina Viner did not arise either among the employees of the Palace and Lyceum 1525, or among the parents of students, or among the inhabitants of the Gagarinsky district. After numerous protests that followed, including two rallies in 2012 and 2013, the idea of ​​liquidating the Palace and building up its territory was abandoned by the Department of Education and the Moscow Mayor's Office.

  However, the process of destruction of the infrastructure of the Palace of Pioneers on Sparrow Hills moved from an acute phase to a chronic one, and over these two years the new administration of the Palace, represented by director A.A. Shashkova, in close cooperation with the Department of Education, managed to cause very serious damage to the educational and methodological resource of this unique children's educational center.

  

  For a simple layman, the role of managers, methodologists and laboratory assistants is incomprehensible. Therefore, the reduction of more than half of the administrative posts in the Palace was carried out by director A.A. Shashkov almost unhindered.

  The consequences of this pogrom will inevitably manifest itself in the form of a decrease in the quality of educational programs in the coming years, since one teacher is not able to carry out the work previously performed by several employees. In addition, the dismissed A.A. Shashkov, the heads of laboratories and sectors were leading experts in their respective fields and organized not only the educational process, but also competitions, conferences, festivals, competitions at the city and federal levels. Such events traditionally involved not only the students of the Palace, but also schoolchildren from all over Moscow, and their importance in stimulating children's interest in scientific, technical, humanitarian and artistic knowledge cannot be overestimated. Thus, the damage from mass layoffs of employees who held administrative positions at the Palace is not limited to only one educational institution, but will be reflected in the general level of the pedagogical process in Moscow.

  The high level of educational programs of the Palace and its branch on the street. Donskaya for decades was also determined by the presence of METHODISTS in the staff, as a rule, they were experienced teachers and passed on their experience to young teachers. In addition, technical functions for the selection and purchase of specific materials and equipment for classes were performed by laboratory assistants, who also usually had a special education in the relevant field. It was the methodologists and laboratory assistants who were the first to undergo mass layoffs, and, apparently, the goal of the Department of Education is the complete abolition of the staff of methodologists not only in the Palace and institutions of additional education, but also in general secondary schools. Mass layoffs of methodologists and laboratory assistants are currently being carried out everywhere without any reaction from the parent community, which is not aware of the consequences of this “reform”.

  Compared to methodologists, dismissals of teaching staff are associated with somewhat greater difficulties for DOs and the administration of the Palace, since teachers are in public space and have the opportunity to receive active support from the parents of their students. However, unfortunately, not all teachers are ready to confront the administration of the Palace, and, as practice shows, it is the most “non-conflicting” employees that are the main victim of the administration A.A. Shashkov, who zealously implements the will of I.I. Kalina and other "reformer" officials. In most cases, the teacher is placed in a situation where he is forced to resign of his own free will, for example, due to an unreasonable reduction in salary. Such dismissals are often provoked by the administration of the Palace right during the school year, when suddenly the children and their parents face the fact that their group is being disbanded due to the dismissal of the teacher. Of course, such cases are a strong stress for both children and adults, but this circumstance is of little concern to officials who are not weighed down by ethical and moral experiences.

  The active resistance of teachers supported by the parent community is the only way to save the educational structure.

  Indicative in this context is the situation with the Fine Arts Studio “Russian Traditions and Decorative Drawing”, which operates on the basis of the Palace branch in the DNTTM (37 Donskaya St.) under the direction of Victoria Anatolyevna Vdovina. It is important to note that in the 2013-2014 academic year, children studying at the DNTTM art studio became laureates and winners of at least eleven different exhibitions and competitions at the Russian and international levels, diploma winners of the Moscow Delphic Games. Studio students regularly enter art lyceums. Of great importance for the development of the students of the studio are the regular trips of the children on creative and sightseeing trips to various cities of Russia, visiting exhibitions and museums in Moscow.

  However, the Department of Education through the hands of the Director of the Palace A.A. Shashkov literally committed reprisal against the staff of the art studio, unfortunately, in the most unscrupulous way involving children in a conflict situation. The purpose of this massacre was to disband the staff of the art studio, and the mechanism was to persecute teachers in the form of endless checks, comments, reprimands and disciplinary sanctions that were carried out directly in the course of classes. The "checkers" were not embarrassed by the tears of the kids, frightened by the insulting tone of unfamiliar adults addressing their teacher, as well as by the stressful requirement to "write a name." At the same time, the final document that was drawn up did not always correspond to the real situation during the “check”.

  Fortunately, the teachers of the art studio, with the active support of their parents, were able to defend the rights of their students and their own rights, using all possible mechanisms to influence the authorities. In particular, an open letter dated December 18 was sent to the authorities of the city of Moscow with a demand to stop attacks on teachers and a petition was drawn up.

  In addition, the teachers of the studio applied for legal support to the independent trade union "Teacher" and organized a primary cell of the trade union . As a result, the administration of A.A. Shashkova backpedaled, and actually began the process of restoring the art studio. Nevertheless, the damage was done very much in the form of reduced positions of the head of the studio, methodologist, laboratory assistant, teacher-organizer, etc.

  Unfortunately, the administration of A.A. Shashkova, following the instructions of I.I. Kalina, did not meet similar resistance from the teaching staff of a number of other divisions of the DNTTM. Thus, the three most modern and sought-after areas were closed: "Digital Electronics", "Virtual Electronics", "Technical Creativity for Juniors", and young erudite teachers did not "get in touch" with officials and were fired. The directions "Astronomy" and "Entertaining Physics" were also destroyed. From the huge musical sector, a small theater and several choreography groups remained, while the musical ensemble, guitar, choir, vocal classes, theater ceased to exist in the 2014 academic year.

  In this very sad context, I would like to express my deep gratitude to those teachers who are ready to fight for the rights of not only their current, but also future students, as well as for their own professional rights. In almost all such situations, the teachers win, because the parent community always supports their teachers, and this disciplines presumptuous officials.

  Leasing the premises and areas of the Palace is the main goal of business officials

  In August 2014 A.A. Shashkov issued Order No. 667, which essentially led to the disbandment of four sports schools based in the 8th and a number of other buildings of the Palace. As part of this "optimization", the time of children's classes in the handball section was drastically reduced, which allowed the administration to "free up" the gym for paid adult groups. The possibility of transferring children's free groups "to the balcony" of the sports hall is not ruled out, so that the children do not interfere with business officials to dispose of state property at their discretion.

  The situation with the tennis court, erected in the protected area of ​​the Palace and already twice actively and expensively repaired over the course of two years, is absolutely outrageous. The fact is that there is no tennis section for children in the Palace, and the creation of such a section is not even planned, as A.A. Shashkov announced at a meeting in October 2014. At the same time, the court is used by unknown people who come directly to the place of "classes" in cars that are very impressive in their price. The court is presumably run by a high-ranking official from the federal Department of Education.

  The football field, swimming pool, dining hall and other halls and premises of the Palace are actively rented out. The range of paid services for adults is expanding, and these services are actively advertised. Obviously, the scandalous laying of fundamental "sidewalks" in the Palace Park, for which it was planned to spend (probably, was spent) 18 million rubles, is connected with the appearance of "adult" groups in a driving school.

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  On December 7, 2016, the Moscow Palace of Pioneers on Sparrow Hills celebrates its 80th anniversary. Over half a million young Muscovites found friends and like-minded people here, many of them decided on their future profession. the site and the Moscow Main Archival Administration recall important events from the history of this unique institution.

  The palace begins ... from the house

  In 1936, the Moscow City House of Pioneers and Octobrists (MGDPiO) was opened in house 6 in Stopani Lane (now Ogorodnaya Sloboda Lane, not far from the Chistye Prudy metro station). Everyone knew this out-of-school institution of a wide profile, and in common parlance it was called simply "Gord", or "House on the Stopani". The Vozhatiy magazine called it "the first of the laboratories that are being created in the Soviet country to educate a new person, a cultural citizen of the socialist homeland."

  

  The beautiful mansion, where the House of Pioneers is located, belonged to the Vysotsky family before the revolution, who owned one of the largest tea trading companies in Russia. As a high school student, Boris Pasternak often visited here: having fallen in love with the owner's daughter, he quickly turned from a tutor into a family friend. Then the building was occupied by trade unions, the Central Club of Communications Workers and the Society of Old Bolsheviks.

  For the children, the house was redecorated from the inside, altering the "merchant's bad taste and wealth" in the spirit of the era. Here is how the historian Vladimir Kabo describes it: “It was a beautiful white Renaissance mansion surrounded by an old garden... In the huge hall I was met by a panel depicting a good-naturedly smiling Stalin with a dark-haired girl in his arms. In the middle of the hall is a fountain; before the new year, there was always a tall tree, all in the lights. From the hall, doors led to a large concert hall and a buffet, decorated in the form of a grotto. I climbed the stairs first to the second floor, there was a lecture hall where we were given lectures on various topics and where we met with famous writers, and there was a room decorated with frescoes on the plots of folk tales. Above, on the third floor, our literary studio was gathering.

  A year after the opening, 173 circles and sections worked at the Moscow State Children's Children's and Educational Society, which were attended by about 3,500 children and adolescents. One building was not enough for them, and Gordom occupied the neighboring mansion (house 5) as a studio for technical creativity. This building housed an office of young inventors, an aircraft modeling and woodworking workshops, and six more laboratories - railway and water transport, communications, a photo laboratory, chemical and energy. The technical direction at that time was a priority, since the Soviet Union was experiencing rapid industrialization.

  Qualified specialists were seriously trained from children: for example, in the railway laboratory there was a working model of a metro station with electric locomotives, escalators and a control tower. They also made a steam locomotive for a miniature railway, which was planned to be built in the garden, but the war prevented ...

  Not only technology

  Artistic creativity also actively developed: an orchestra, a choir, a music school, a dance school, a theater studio, a puppet theater, sculpture and architectural workshops, a literary and art studio worked in the House of Pioneers. Only the pioneer song and dance ensemble in 1937 had 500 participants, and 750 people were employed in the production of "The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Bogatyrs" by Pushkin Days!

  

  Frequent guests of the literary studio were Samuil Marshak, Agniya Barto, Lev Kassil, Arkady Gaidar, Reuben Fraerman, Korney Chukovsky. It is not surprising that famous writers later came out of here: Yuri Trifonov, Sergei Baruzdin and Anatoly Aleksin. The theater studio is also proud of its graduates: among them are directors Stanislav Rostotsky and Alexander Mitta, artists Natalya Gundareva, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Igor Kvasha and Rolan Bykov. Actor Sergey Nikonenko recalls: “The spirit of kindness and commitment reigned in this House. We all loved our teachers to self-forgetfulness ... We had a common cause with them. We didn't feel like we were at school. Both they and we wanted the same thing - that we succeeded as best as possible. They did not believe that childhood is a transitional period to the present, that is, adulthood. They understood that childhood is also a real life. They respected the individual in each of us.”

  In the House of Pioneers, much attention was paid to the study of Russian history and geography, especially Moscow studies. The work was not only desk work: for example, to get acquainted with the culture of antiquity, young historians visited the funds of the Hermitage, and in the summer they went to excavations in the Crimea; geographers organized expeditions to the Moscow region and the Caucasus.

  Sports were also not forgotten, but mainly in applied disciplines. "According to the dictates of the times" the military-sports and patriotic direction was actively developing. Since December 1936, a combined pioneer regiment has been operating, where future snipers, tankers, paratroopers, cavalrymen, orderlies, signalmen, dog breeders and pigeon breeders were trained. And in 1938, they created a defense (later military) department, which included a shooting room, a naval laboratory, a school for instructors in chemical and air defense, circles of machine gunners and grenade launchers.

  In the prewar years, the foundation was laid for the Gordom chess club, which later became one of the strongest schools of this sport in the capital. Young chess players published a handwritten newspaper, participated in various tournaments and simultaneous games with famous grandmasters.

  

  creative space

  In a small area of ​​the House of Pioneers, everything that could attract and amaze children was collected. Want to roller skate? Here is the paved area in front of the gate. There are also children's pedal cars; later a garage was built for them. Want to read and cook outdoors? There are cozy benches on shady alleys. If you want to frolic - go to the sports ground. You don’t even have to go to the zoo: in the courtyard there was a garden with fruit trees, and in it there was a pool with waterfowl, next to it there was a living corner with cages for young animals and a small stable with a foal. Gordom's space was a real masterpiece of landscape design.

  And most importantly, the entire House of Pioneers was a single whole, a huge creative laboratory, where enthusiastic people worked, who inspired and nurtured each other. From the memoirs of the historian Nikolai Merpert: “This entire House of Pioneers ... seemed to be very valuable and, in the best sense of the word, a profound institution. All sorts of circles talked with each other, there was a magnificent theater hall where we used to meet, and then many halls, passages, very cozy corners - this old brick mansion in Stopani lane was extremely well rebuilt. Therefore, we or the youth theater, created at the same time and led by excellent directors, a geographical circle, within the framework of the historical office, a Moscow history circle - we all communicated very, very closely.

  Adult help during the war years

  Despite all the difficulties, the House of Pioneers worked during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Basically there were circles that could help the front: sewing, carpentry, plumbing, electrical. But classes continued and creative studios, especially theatrical, dance and choir: young artists staged concerts for the Red Army.

  In January 1942, Gordom took patronage of one of the military hospitals. The carpentry circle made mouthpieces for the wounded, the sewing circle made pouches, collars and handkerchiefs. For the holidays, the pioneers collected books and records for the fighters, gave them a gramophone and an alloscope (a kind of filmoscope, a device for projecting filmstrips. - Approx. site).

  The guys brought writing materials to their patrons - envelopes, postcards, paper and pencils, they themselves wrote news to relatives under dictation and read newspapers aloud to the soldiers. Young artists decorated with their drawings not only the premises of the hospital, but also the wagons of the ambulance train.

  "Pioneer" Tuesdays and Fridays have become a good tradition, when the circle members spent creative evenings in the hospital - they sang, danced, acted out skits and read excerpts from works of art. And the guys also took on the duties of postmen, delivering the latest press and correspondence.

  All this was done so easily and cheerfully that the fighters happily waited for new meetings with the pioneers. Even the hospital commissioners, who at first were very skeptical about the offer to help, after a few months recognized Gordom as a full-fledged chef.

  In addition, during the war years, the House of Pioneers continued to provide methodological and practical support to out-of-school institutions and children's organizations in all districts of Moscow: it developed training programs and trained counselors and instructors.

  After the war: patriotism and expansion of frontiers

  In the post-war years, the country experienced an unprecedented patriotic upsurge. Interest in native history flared up with renewed vigor. This could not but affect the work of the House of Pioneers: historical circles became one of the main areas. They were especially active in preparation for the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the capital (1947). Back in November 1945, the Society of Young Historians of Moscow was created, which united the efforts of the House of Pioneers and historical circles in schools.

  Members of the Society gave lectures, participated in excursions and travels, archaeological excavations and various competitions. In 1946, schoolchildren sent 25 thousand creative works dedicated to the history of Moscow, in 1947 - 80 thousand. There were stories, poems, drawings, models, embroideries, photographs…

  Thanks to its large-scale activities, the Society has received many awards from the Ministry of Education, such as a library of historical literature and vouchers for excursions around the country. The active work of historical circles continued in subsequent years: in 1948, the competition "Remarkable People of Moscow" was held, in April 1956 - a city-wide school conference on the study of Moscow.

  Other studios and laboratories opened earlier also developed. According to statistics, already in the first post-war year, more than three thousand schoolchildren studied at the House of Pioneers, and the number of participants in concerts, competitions, sports festivals and other mass events reached 35 thousand per month.

  

  In the late 1950s, it became clear that Gordom could not accommodate everyone. In a report for 1956, the director of the House of Pioneers V.V. Strunin wrote: “According to its conditions, our House of Pioneers cannot cover more than 3800-4000 people in circle work ... If there were appropriate conditions, the composition of the ensemble choir alone could be increased to 2000-3000 people ... Considering the aspirations of schoolchildren for creative amateur performances and the importance circle work in the education of students, it is necessary to achieve the creation of a wide network of circles in each school, to quickly resolve the issue of building a new City House of Pioneers in Moscow.

  Bold project

  In 1958, the Central Council of the All-Union Pioneer Organization decided to build on the Lenin Hills not just a new House, but the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren. The memorial stone was laid in the autumn of the same year - on October 29, on the day of the 40th anniversary of the Komsomol; now it is located to the left of the alley leading to the main entrance of the Palace.

  They chose a beautiful place - on the high bank of the Moskva River, along the Vorobyovskoye Highway (now Kosygin Street). It turned out to be more difficult to choose a project: there were several dozen proposals, one more interesting than the other. As a result, the application of a team of young architects headed by Igor Pokrovsky won; This group also included Mikhail Khazhakyan, who at one time participated in the reconstruction of the building of the Moscow State Children's and Children's Department in Stopani Lane.

  The project was so unusual and innovative that the authors did not hope to implement it, but, apparently, this courage pleased the jury. Firstly, the architects wanted to contrast the new structure with the palaces of the past - magnificent and grandiose, but hardly suitable for children's activities. Secondly, they decided to harmoniously fit the building into the existing green area - because of this, they abandoned the symmetrical composition, and then, already during construction, they corrected the original plan more than once. Thirdly, for reasons of safety and aesthetics, the Palace was placed not on the road, but on a lawn in the depths of a grove. For complete unity with nature - "less massive masonry and more stained-glass windows, transparent glass walls."

  The result was a building of free layout, bizarrely scattered across the landscape park. The walls were decorated with monumental multi-colored panels with pioneer emblems: fire, horn, stars; on the end facades, the paintings “Water”, “Earth” and “Sky” were placed, which symbolize the conquest of the elements by man. Even the front square in front of the Palace was not filled with concrete or asphalt - they left a natural lawn, only dividing it with paths of white stone. The center of the composition was a 60-meter flagpole, which turned the area around it into an allegory of a grandiose ship.

  

  One of the hallmarks of the Palace was the winter garden: “This is space, air, light, height. And of course, palm trees, araucaria, creepers, papyrus. However, exotics need normal tropical conditions to grow. The tropics were created using a special automated system for heating the soil, water, and air. I also had to think about the sun glare effectively falling on the greenery, about the glass domes through which the sky would be visible, about the pool with water plants, about the fountain, about the grate separating the through gallery from the winter garden. The lattice was made openwork, decorative, with fish, birds, insects, to match everything else.

  Komsomol construction

  The construction, which began in 1958, turned out to be large-scale: 18 design organizations were involved for it, and more than 300 enterprises supplied building and finishing materials, engineering structures, equipment and furniture. In addition to hundreds of skilled workers in 40 specialties, more than 50,000 volunteers, boys and girls from all over the country, took part in subbotniks and Sundays in four years. According to official estimates, schoolchildren and students worked here over three million man-hours! Upon completion of construction, more than two thousand trees and about 100 thousand flowers were planted on the territory of the Palace.

  The opening of the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren took place on June 1, 1962, on Children's Day. The First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev took part in the solemn ceremony. According to eyewitnesses, he said: "I don't know what others will say, but I like this Palace."

  In 1967, the architects and designers of the Palace of Pioneers were awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR. But they certainly considered the words of the famous French architect Bernard Serfus to be the best reward: “I consider architecture to be truly good, which, being modern, does not lose signs of modernity even after many years. I am sure that the building on the Lenin Hills will stand the test of time.

  Tests of time

  After the opening of the complex on the Lenin Hills, Gordom on Stopani also became a palace - the regional Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren named after N.K. Krupskaya (now the Palace of Creativity for Children and Youth of the Central Administrative District).

  And the Palace of Pioneers (now on Sparrow Hills) has more than doubled in half a century: if in 1962 it included 400 rooms, now there are already about 900 of them, with a total area of ​​​​almost 40 thousand square meters. About 27.5 thousand children from three to 18 years old study in laboratories, studios, art and technical workshops, sports schools and sections of the Palace (including branches). In total, there are over 1300 study groups in 10 areas: science and culture, technical, artistic and social creativity, information technology, ecology, ethnography, physical culture and sports. In 93 percent of studios and circles, classes are free.

  The institution has repeatedly changed its status and name: in 1992 it was renamed the Moscow City Palace of Children and Youth Creativity, in 2001 - the Moscow City Palace of Children's (Youth) Creativity. In 2014-2015, during the reorganization, the Vorobyovy Gory State Budgetary Vocational Educational Institution (GBPOU) was created, which, in addition to the Palace, includes 16 more educational institutions - kindergartens, secondary schools, a college of professional technologies and additional education centers.

  

  The essence of the Palace remains unchanged: people who are passionate about their work still work here. They help children and teenagers develop their abilities and talents, find a calling and a path in life.

  And the Palace of Pioneers, which can simultaneously accommodate up to 20 thousand people, is an excellent venue for festive events. Children and parents willingly gather here for Christmas and New Year, Family Day and Children's Day, City Day, Children's Book Week and. Of course, the Palace will also celebrate its own 80th anniversary, which will take place on December 7th.

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