On December 7, 2016, the Moscow Palace of Pioneers on Sparrow Hills celebrates its 80th anniversary. Over half a million young Muscovites have found friends and associates here, many have decided on their future profession. the website and the Main Archive Department of Moscow 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) opened at 6 in Stopani Lane (now Ogorodnaya Sloboda lane, not far from the Chistye Prudy metro station). This out-of-school institution with a wide profile was known to everyone, and in common parlance it was called simply "Gord", or "House on the Stop". The Vozhaty magazine called him "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, before the revolution belonged to the Vysotsky family, 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 children, the house was redecorated from the inside, altering the "merchant 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 greeted by a panel depicting a good-natured smiling Stalin with a dark-haired girl in her arms. There is a fountain in the middle of the hall; before the new year there was always a tall tree covered in lights. From the hall, doors led to a large concert hall and a buffet decorated in the form of a grotto. I went up the stairs first to the second floor, there was a lecture hall where we were given lectures on all sorts of topics and where we met with famous writers, and there was a room decorated with frescoes depicting stories from folk tales. Above, on the third floor, our literary studio gathered. "

Already a year after the opening, 173 circles and sections worked in the Moscow City Pedagogical and Pedagogical Department, which were attended by about 3500 children and adolescents. One building was not enough for them, and Gordom occupied a neighboring mansion (building 5) as a studio for technical creativity. This building housed an office of young inventors, an aircraft modeling and woodworking workshop, and six more laboratories - railway and water transport, communications, a photographic laboratory, chemical and energy. The technical direction at that time was a priority, since the Soviet Union was experiencing rapid industrialization.

Children were seriously trained as qualified specialists: for example, in the railway laboratory there was a working model of a metro station with electric locomotives, escalators and a control room. A locomotive was also made here for a miniature railway, which was planned to be built in the garden, but the war prevented ...

Not only technology

Artistic creativity also developed actively: an orchestra, choir, music school, dance school, theater studio, puppet theater, sculptural and architectural workshops, literary and art studios worked in the House of Pioneers. The pioneer song and dance ensemble alone in 1937 numbered 500 participants, and 750 people were employed in the production of "The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Heroes" for the 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 from 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 Sergei Nikonenko recalls: “The spirit of kindness and commitment reigned in this House. We all loved our teachers to the point of self-forgetfulness ... We had a common cause with them. We didn’t feel bonded like we did at school. Both they and we wanted the same thing - to do our best. They did not believe that childhood is a transitional period to real, that is, adulthood. They understood that childhood is also a real life. They respected the individual in each of us. "

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

Sports were not forgotten either, but mainly in applied disciplines. At the behest of the times, the military-sports and patriotic trends were actively developing. Already in December 1936, a combined pioneer regiment was operating, where future snipers, tankmen, parachutists, cavalrymen, orderlies, signalmen, dog breeders and pigeon breeders were trained. And in 1938, a defense (later military) department was created, which included a rifle office, a naval laboratory, a school for instructors in chemical and air defense, circles of machine gunners and grenade launchers.

In the pre-war years, the foundation was laid for the Gordoma 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

On a small territory of the House of Pioneers, everything that can attract and amaze children was collected. Want to roller skate? Here is the paved area in front of the gate. Children's pedal cars drive right there; later a garage was also built for them. Want to read and cook outdoors? There are cozy benches on the 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 was a living area with cages for young animals and a small stable with a foal. The Gordom space was a true 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 nourished each other. From the memoirs of the historian Nikolai Merpert: “This whole House of Pioneers ... seemed to be a very valuable and, in the best sense of the word, a deep institution. Various circles communicated with each other, there was a magnificent theater hall where we usually met, and then many halls, passages, very cozy corners - this old brick mansion in Stopani Lane was rebuilt extremely successfully. Therefore, we or the youth theater, created at the same time and led by excellent directors, the geographic circle, within the framework of the historical office, the circle of the history of Moscow - 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, locksmith, electrical. But the classes were continued by creative studios, especially theatrical, dance and choir: young artists organized concerts for the Red Army soldiers.

In January 1942, Gordom took over the patronage of one of the military hospitals. The joiner's circle made cigarette holders for the wounded, the sewing circle made tobacco pouches, collars and handkerchiefs. For the holidays, the pioneers collected books and gramophone records for the fighters, presented them with a gramophone and an alloscope (a kind of filmoscope, a device for projecting filmstrips. - Approx. Site).

The guys brought their sponsored writing materials - envelopes, postcards, paper and pencils, wrote the news to their relatives under the dictation and read the newspapers aloud to the soldiers. Young artists decorated not only the hospital premises with their drawings, but also the carriages 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 scenes and read excerpts from works of art. The guys also took on the duties of postmen, delivering fresh press and correspondence.

All this was done so easily and cheerfully that the soldiers happily looked forward to new meetings with the pioneers. Even the hospital commissioners, who were skeptical at first about the offer to help, after a few months recognized Gord as a full-fledged chief.

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 pushing boundaries

In the postwar years, the country experienced an unprecedented patriotic upsurge. Interest in the native history flared up with renewed vigor. This could not but affect the work of the House of Pioneers: historical circles have become one of the main directions. They were especially active in preparing 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, embroidery, photographs ...

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

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

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

A 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 fall 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 bid of a team of young architects headed by Igor Pokrovsky won; this group also included Mikhail Khazhakyan, who at one time took part in the reconstruction of the building of the Moscow City State Pedagogical Department in Stopani Lane.

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

The result is a free-form building, fancifully scattered across the landscape park. The walls were decorated with monumental multi-colored panels with pioneer emblems: bonfire, horn, stars; on the front facades were placed paintings "Water", "Earth" and "Sky", which symbolize the conquest of the elements by man. Even the front square in front of the Palace was not poured 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 is the winter garden: “This is space, air, light, height. And of course, palms, araucaria, vines, papyrus. Exotics, however, need normal tropical conditions to grow. The tropics were created using a special automated system for heating soil, water and air. I also had to think about the sun glare effectively falling on the greenery, about glass domes through which the sky could be seen, about a pool with water plants, about a fountain, about a lattice 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 attracted for it, and more than 300 enterprises supplied construction and finishing materials, engineering structures, equipment and furniture. In addition to hundreds of skilled workers in 40 specialties, more than 50 thousand 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 have 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 ceremony. According to the recollections of eyewitnesses, he said: "I do not 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 probably considered the best reward the words of the famous French architect Bernard Zerfus: “I think that architecture is really good, which, being modern, does not lose its signs of modernity even after many years. I am sure that the building on the Lenin Hills will stand the test of time. "

The test of time

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

And the Palace of Pioneers (now on Vorobyovy Gory) has more than doubled in half a century: if in 1962 it included 400 rooms, now there are about 900 of them, with a total area of ​​almost 40 thousand square meters. In laboratories, studios, art and technical workshops, sports schools and sections of the Palace (including branches), about 27.5 thousand children from three to 18 years old are engaged. 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 clubs, classes are free.

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

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

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

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The now fashionable hand-made occupation is nothing more than the reincarnation of children's circles of soft toys or cutting and sewing. From suburban pioneer camps, a Soviet schoolgirl brought her own made teddy Olympic bear, and a Soviet schoolboy brought an almost flying glider. Young photographers used their official position to skewer from the obligatory afternoon nap under the pretext of urgent film development in a photo circle. Returning to Moscow, someone forgot about summer hobbies, and someone continued to polish their skills in the district Houses of Pioneers. And the most important Palace of Pioneers was located on the Lenin (Sparrow) Hills. He is still there. More than 15,000 people are systematically engaged in research laboratories, studios, art and technical workshops, sports schools and sections, creative teams, development groups, circles for children and parents. 1314 study groups and collectives work in the Palace, training in most of them is free.

On April 29, 1923, the country's first House of Pioneers was opened in the Khamovnichesky District of Moscow on the basis of the Labor Commune children's club. After the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR adopted a decree of December 26, 1932 "On measures to develop out-of-school work among children in 1933," a real boom began in opening new children's out-of-school institutions, including houses and palaces of pioneers and schoolchildren. In June 1936, the City House of Pioneers and Octobrists was opened in Stopani Lane in Moscow (then the history of the Moscow Palace of Pioneers began).

Built in 1959-1963 the building on the Lenin (Vorobyovy) Hills 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 theater foyer, reliefs on facades, sculptural signs, reliefs on gratings. All this is united by a single style - lapidary, conventional, tending towards symbolic expression, towards symbolism, emblems, overcoming descriptiveness. The project was selected as the best as a result of the competition.

Architects: Egerev Victor Sergeevich, Kubasov Vladimir Stepanovich, Novikov Felix Aronovich, Pokrovsky Igor Alexandrovich, Khazhakyan Mikhail Nikolaevich.
Designer: Ionov Yuri Ivanovich.

In 1967, the architecture of the Palace was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR.

In 1991, after the collapse of the USSR and the ban of the CPSU, the Lenin Pioneer Organization was disbanded. Her property was confiscated and transformed into institutions of additional education for children with a new name "Centers or Palaces of Children and Youth Creativity", which are assigned to the municipalities. In 1992, the Moscow Palace of Pioneers was reorganized into the Palace of Children and Youth.

In the spring of 2011, reconstruction was planned here, it was supposed to evict the circles and sections and transfer part of the premises to Irina Viner for a rhythmic gymnastics school. These plans received a wide public response and the townspeople managed to preserve the palace, but there will certainly be new people willing to develop 44 hectares of "pioneer" land for their own purposes.

You can treat the Soviet system in different ways, but the fact is that the state then did not economize on education, development and health of children. In the current commercial reality, it remains only to admire the teachers who, in difficult conditions, instill in children an interest in creativity, science and technology.

Address: st. Kosygina, 17. The nearest metro station: "Vorobyovy Gory".

June 1, 1962. Nikita Khrushchev opens the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren on the Lenin Hills

1963 year. Admission to the pioneers

1983 year. Panorama of the Parade Square

Flagpole

They say that theater begins with a coat rack. The Palace of Pioneers begins with her.

Almost all interior details have been preserved

Pets' corner

Young biologists

Ship modeling

Checkers Chess

Young photographer and models

Fashion show

Civil Defense Classes

Cadets

Karting club

Toy History Museum

Rehearsal of the Loktev Song and Dance Ensemble

The children's song and dance ensemble appeared in Moscow in 1937, then it was the first collective that united a choir, orchestra and dance groups, it was supervised by Professor Alexander Alexandrov. During the Great Patriotic War, the children's choir, as part of the front-line brigades, performed in military units and in hospitals. At that time, the artistic director of the ensemble was a wonderful teacher and accompanist Vladimir Loktev, who later worked with this group for a quarter of a century. During the Soviet years, the ensemble performed in the main halls, toured a lot around the country and abroad, and famous composers entrusted the first performance of their works to the Loktevites.

Today the Loktev Song and Dance Ensemble is a single art collective with its own school and traditions, consisting of four parts: choirs of different ages, orchestras, choreographic groups and a brass band. Children from 5 to 18 years old are engaged in the Ensemble. The ensemble's repertoire consists of songs and dances of the peoples of the world, as well as musical works by Russian and foreign composers. The most talented children continue their studies at the school-studio of the I. Moiseev ensemble, the school-studio of the choir named after Pyatnitsky, as well as at the Moscow Conservatory named after I. PI Tchaikovsky, the Gnessin Academy, the Musical College named after A. Schnittke, choreographic school of the Bolshoi Theater.

Concert hall

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 asymmetrical green square is cut obliquely by a regular grid of asphalt paths. On one side there is a fifty-meter stainless steel flagpole. On the other, there is a light, elongated building with an observatory dome and a canopy 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, chimneys, Lenin - where without him. Ash trees and nuts grow behind the buildings connected into one complex. Quiet, no cars, schoolchildren walk along the paths - even in late autumn 2014, the hopeful 1960s reign here.

The construction of the Palace of Pioneers began immediately after the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in 1957, and it was opened on June 1, 1962 - half a year remained before the publication of “One Day of Ivan Denisovich”, and eternity before the tanks in Prague. At the pioneer parade, Nikita Khrushchev himself cut the red ribbon of the new building. 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 need 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 1967 architecture

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

Years of creation: 1958–1962

Complex area: 48 hectares

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 united in one extended building. The competition was won by young and unknown architects led by Igor Aleksandrovich Pokrovsky (the future author of the Zelenograd development) - everyone in the team of seven was not even 35 years old. The project became their start in life: when the State Prize of the RSFSR in the field of architecture was established in 1967, the creators of the Palace of Pioneers were the first to receive it.

The decision of Pokrovsky's team was radically different from everything that was before: these are very light, graceful and well-integrated buildings, 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 renovation, 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 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 the touch of the sacred. Architecture is not only about 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 avenue of Academician Sakharov, 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 subjugate thermonuclear fusion, create a just society and fly to distant planets on a brilliant rocket. And this is 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 on social networks in the new film by Christopher Nolan? And even more - the hope that it will be better in the future has been replaced by the fear of change and the desire to isolate oneself 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 hassle: progress is great, and the future cannot but be wonderful. Because if it is not beautiful, then why live at all?

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

Photos: Polina Kirilenko

Associations (circles and sections) of technical, scientific and technical creativity, environmental education, sports sections, associations of military-patriotic, tourism and regional studies, information technologies. Located on the high right bank of the Moskva River in the Vorobyovy Gory region. It is the central Palace of Children's Art 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 foyers 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, conventional, tending towards symbolic expression, towards symbolism, emblems, overcoming descriptiveness. The project was selected as the best as a result of the competition.

  Designer: Yu. I. Ionov.

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  History of MHDD (Yu) T

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

  The number of children striving to study in Gordoma continuously increased 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 meeting was held on the occasion of the foundation stone of the Palace of Pioneers and a foundation stone was installed on which the inscription: "The City Palace of Pioneers was laid by the Komsomol and youth of Moscow in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Komsomol." The palace was built with money left over after the VI World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Moscow in 1957. The construction of the Palace was a shock Komsomol construction project.

  On June 1, 1962, the grand opening of a new complex on the Lenin Hills (hereinafter Vorobyovy Hills) took place. 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 PN 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. , Minister of Education of the RSFSR E. I. Afanasenko, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council N. A. Dygai, 1st Secretary of the MGK Komsomol B. N. Pastukhov and other guests of honor.

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

  In 1971, the Palace was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for great successes in the communist education of the younger generation. And in 1981 he was awarded the honorary title "Exemplary Out-of-School Institution".

  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 of Pioneers and Schoolchildren into the Moscow City Palace of Children and Youth Creativity. 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) the Moscow State Budgetary Educational Institution "Vorobyovy Gory". Now the Palace is 1,314 educational groups and collectives (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. m ², their volume - 219 thousand m ³, the total number of premises - 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 number 22249, its diameter is about 3 km, the minimum distance from Earth is 109 million km.

  In 2014, the organization was reorganized into the State budgetary professional educational institution "Vorobyovy Gory".

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  Conferences, seminars, competitions and festivals traditionally held in MHDD (U) T

  • "Day of the city"
  • "Week of games and toys" (held during the autumn holidays)
  • New Year's performances (held during the winter holidays)
  • "Christmas on Sparrow Hills"
  • "Russian carnival"
  • "Week of children's and youth books" (held during the spring break)
  • "Sons of the Fatherland"
  • Festival "Team Tolerance" (June 12)
  • All-Russian Youth Readings named after V.I. 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 of schoolchildren in Moscow and Russia "We and the Biosphere"
  • Festival "Young Talents of Muscovy"
  • Assembly "Culture and Children"