Saturday, March 04, 2006

Lasurnaja by The Black sea




The parade square at Lasurnaja. One of the ten compounds comprising Artek pioneercamp in the Crimea. Top left is a view of Lasurnaja - The Blue camp - as seen from the air, with that little ruin facing the sea. The camp was founded in 1925, and danish pioneers were among the first delegations to stay there. About the little ruin: I´m not sure whether it dates back to the times of the crimean khan or the byzantines or il genovese, or if it even dates back to the taurians, whom Herodot describes as merciless in killing stranded sailors and properly needing watchtowers for that purpose. Or whether it was artifical, a construction by 18th century russian romanticists!
Anyway the square behind it, - barely visible through the thick foliage - is where dancing took place at night, when I stayed there. The third image shows the memorial mark for dead mariners at a naval battle off the coast of the camp during WWII. The pioneers in the camp supposedly saved a couple of wounded men, making it to the shore.


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