A Google search of ‘children’s military-patriotic camps’ in Russian brings up hundreds of hits. Maksim, 12, spent a week of the school holidays at one of these camps near Yekaterinburg, and wrote a diary of his activities there.
Day one
Today was my first day at the military camp. When we arrived, we were allocated our tents. The youngest boys, the 10 year olds, slept with the group leaders, the rest of us slept in another tent.
