A sports camp is a place where children and teenagers can spend their summer time and practice various sports under the guidance of experienced coaches. Such camps can be organized both daytime and nighttime, where children are in the camp 24 hours a day. Sports camps can host training and competitions in football, basketball, volleyball, track and field, swimming, tennis, gymnastics and other sports. In addition to training, camps can host various entertainment programs, lectures by professional athletes and other events. Such a camp can be a great opportunity for teenagers to meet new people, learn teamwork and make new achievements in sports.
A sports camp in the USSR was a kind of camp that was created to organize sports recreation for children and youth during the summer. These were organizations that provided children and youth not only with the opportunity to actively spend time, but also provided specialized services for training their participants in various sports.
The sports camps also hosted competitions in various sports, special training in disciplines that children and young people wanted to study, as well as various types of entertainment, leisure and education.
One of the main advantages of sports camps was their accessibility for everyone: they were created in various parts of the country and provided children and young people from all social strata of society with the opportunity to relax and train. In addition, the USSR had a system of benefits for children and young people, which facilitated access to sports events and various types of sports.
Sports camps became one of the main ways to promote a healthy lifestyle in the USSR, and many people who went through sports camps in childhood or adolescence maintain this approach to this day.