A Brief History of JUNIO-R
The prototype of our camp was the International Children's Computer Camp-School (ICCCS) in Pereslavl-Zalessky, the idea of which belongs to academicians E.P. Velikhov and E.K. Ailamazyan, who founded the ICCC in 1986. But at that time, the goal of the camp was precisely a summer school for programmers. And the departments were dedicated only to various computer technologies.
The organizer and director of JUNIO-R, Yu. M. Gorvits, worked in this camp from 1988 to 1995 and was the first to introduce the idea of interdisciplinary projects. Architects and directors, photographers and economists, designers and journalists began to come to the camp.
In 1998, Gorvits has organized the JUNIWARE camp in Slovakia.
The history of the International Children's Camp "JUNIO-R" in Bulgaria dates back to June 30, 2000. Thanks to friendship and professional cooperation with Professor Boyka Gradinarova of the Technical University of Varna, and the support of various Russian and Bulgarian organizations, it was possible to find a convenient base for holding the camp directly on the Black Sea coast in the village of Kranevo between Varna and Albena.
Since 2010, the camp has moved closer to Varna, to the resort area of "Kabakum Beach", to the hotel "Temida", and later, in 2013, to the hotel "Troy".
Since 2015, JUNIO-R has been based at the cozy Pisatel Hotel of the Bulgarian Writers' Union, a 3-minute walk from the beach. The hotel has everything you need for a comfortable stay for children.
The geography of JUNIO-R began to expand. In 2017, Yury M. Gorvits with his friends and colleagues held 4 sessions of the JustDilijanIt! camp in Dilijan (Armenia), completely transferring the concept of interdisciplinary project activities characteristic of JUNIO-R to the new territory.
In 2020, due to the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, we quickly adapted to the new circumstances of life and organized JUNIO-R/Online. About 40 children from Russia, Germany and France participated in international projects.
The new conditions required a radical redesign of the site, including the inclusion of online payment options.
At the same time, we opened JUNIO-R in Moscow at the "Ugol" Cultural Space, and for three years we hosted children in the format of a city camp.
In 2021 and 2022, when the situation in the world changed and trips to Bulgaria became impossible, the JUNIO-R sessions nevertheless successfully took place near Samara and at the "Vetreno" Water Sports Center (Yaroslavl Region).
In 2022, the organizer and the Principal of JUNIO-R
Yuri Gorvits has prepared with his friends and colleagues and has published a book
"In JUNIO-R I am Mikhalych" (Russian edition)
in which he tried to summarize the knowledge accumulated over more than 30 years
experience in organizing and conducting our
International Children's Scientific CreITive Camp.
In July 2024, after a one-year break caused by “force majeure circumstances” and preparations for the “updated version” of JUNIO-R, we organized and successfully conducted a session in Georgia.
This time our junior company – a total of 27 people from 7 countries: children, experts, guests – was received by the hospitable and comfortable Keriya Hotel.
The concept has not changed. But, as always, new ideas, new projects and final happiness!
Over the past years, a whole generation of children has changed, many received a good education and became counselors and even teachers at JUNIO-R.
The territories, teachers, and children change, but the concept of JUNIO-R remains unchanged, and most importantly, the spirit of friendship, fun and smart leisure, constant creativity, a healthy lifestyle - "Smart vacations"!
Cities and countries from which children came to JUNIO-R
Russia cities and Distance
Abakan (Khakassia)5,300 km
Arkhangelsk 2,800 km
Astrakhan 1,500 km
Balabanovo (Kaluga Reg.) 1,600 km
Balashikha (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Barnaul 4,900 km
Belovo (Kemerovo Reg.) 4,800 km
Berdsk (Novosibirsk Reg.) 4,500 km
Chelyuskinsky (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Chelyabinsk 2,700 km
Cherepovets (Vologda Reg.) 1,800 km
Chernogolovka (Moscow Reg.) 1,700 km
Gorno-Altaysk (Altai Republic) 5,200 km
Dedovsk (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod Reg.) 1,800 km
Dolgoprudny (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Domodedovo (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Izhevsk (Udmurtia) 2,300 km
Kazan (Tatarstan) 2,000 km
Kemerovo 4,700 km
Khimki (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Kirov 2,200 km
Klimovsk (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Klin (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Korolev (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Kostroma 1,700 km
Krasnoarmeysk (Moscow Reg.) 1,700 km
Krasnodar 800 km
Krasnoznamensk (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Krasnoyarsk 4,700 km
Lermontov (Stavropol Krai) 1,000 km
Lytkarino (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Lyubertsy (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Millerovo (Rostov Reg.) 900 km
Monino (Moscow Reg.) 1,700 km
Moscow 1,650 km
Mytishchi (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria) 1,000 km
Nefteyugansk (Khanty-Mansi AS) 3,500 km
Nizhnekamsk (Tatarstan) 2,200 km
Nizhny Novgorod 1,800 km
Nizhny Tagil 2,800 km
Novosibirsk 4,500 km
Novocherkassk (Rostov Reg.) 900 km
Obninsk (Kaluga Reg.) 1,600 km
Odintsovo (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Omsk 3,900 km
Pavlovsky Posad (Moscow Reg.) 1,700 km
Penza 1,500 km
Peterhof (Saint Petersburg) 2,100 km
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 8,500 km
Podolsk (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Protvino (Moscow Reg.) 1,600 km
Pushkino (Moscow Reg.) 1,700 km
Pushchino (Moscow Reg.) 1,600 km
Pyatigorsk 1,000 km
Ramenskoye (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Reutov (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Romanovo (Altai Krai) 4,900 km
Rostov-on-Don 900 km
Ryazan 1,500 km
Samara 1,900 km
Saint Petersburg 2,100 km
Sevastopol (Crimea) 700 km
Seversk (Tomsk Reg.) 4,600 km
Segezha (Karelia) 2,400 km
Serpukhov (Moscow Reg.) 1,600 km
Shchyolkovo (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Snezhinsk (Chelyabinsk Reg.) 2,800 km
Sosnovy Bor (Leningrad Reg.) 2,100 km
Sochi 900 km
Stavropol 900 km
Stary Oskol (Belgorod Reg.) 1,100 km
Stupino (Moscow Reg.) 1,600 km
Surgut (Khanty-Mansi AS) 3,600 km
Tambov 1,300 km
Tver 1,700 km
Tolyatti (Samara Reg.) 1,900 km
Tomsk 4,600 km
Troitsk (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Tula 1,500 km
Tyulkovo (Krasnoyarsk Krai) 4,700 km
Tyumen 3,000 km
Uglovskoye (Altai Krai) 4,800 km
Udomlya (Tver Reg.) 1,800 km
Ulan-Ude (Buryatia) 5,900 km
Ulyanovsk 1,900 km
Ufa (Bashkortostan) 2,500 km
Ukhta (Komi Republic) 2,600 km
Ust-Koksa (Altai Republic) 5,400 km
Uyar (Krasnoyarsk Krai) 4,600 km
Veliky Novgorod 2,000 km
Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia-Alania) 1,100 km
Volgograd 1,200 km
Voronezh 1,100 km
Yekaterinburg 2,800 km
Yubileyny (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
Zavodoukovsk (Tyumen Reg.) 3,000 km
Zelenograd (Moscow Reg.) 1,650 km
World cities and Distance
Aberystwyth (UK) 2,500 km
Aberdeen (Scotland, UK) 2,400 km
Amsterdam (Netherlands) 1,900 km
Ashkelon (Israel) 1,600 km
Bayonne (New Jersey, USA) 7,600 km
Berlin (Germany) 1,400 km
Bijao (Colombia) 9,800 km
Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria) 400 km
Chișinău (Moldova) 400 km
Dnipro (Ukraine) 600 km
Dobrich (Bulgaria) 50 km
Dubai (UAE) 3,300 km
Geneva (Switzerland) 1,900 km
Gothenburg (Sweden) 2,000 km
Graz (Austria) 1,000 km
Haifa (Israel) 1,500 km
Imatra (Finland) 2,200 km
Istanbul (Turkey) 200 km
Jerusalem (Israel) 1,500 km
Jurmala (Latvia) 1,600 km
Kaunas (Lithuania) 1,500 km
Kyiv (Ukraine) 700 km
London (UK) 2,200 km
Lund (Sweden) 1,600 km
Lucerne (Switzerland) 1,800 km
Medellín (Colombia) 9,900 km
Minsk (Belarus) 1,100 km
Monaco (Monaco) 1,600 km
Munich (Germany) 1,400 km
Netanya (Israel) 1,500 km
Palo Alto (USA) 10,000 km
Paris (France) 2,000 km
Pittsburgh (USA) 7,900 km
Polotsk (Belarus) 1,200 km
Prague (Czech Republic) 1,200 km
Ramat Gan (Israel) 1,500 km
Ramat HaSharon (Israel) 1,500 km
Seoul (South Korea) 7,600 km
Singapore (Singapore) 8,600 km
Stockholm (Sweden) 1,900 km
Tallinn (Estonia) 1,800 km
Tbilisi (Georgia) 1,200 km
Tel Aviv (Israel) 1,500 km
Tromsø (Norway) 3,100 km
Vancouver (Canada) 9,000 km
Vienna (Austria) 1,100 km
Yerevan (Armenia) 1,300 km
Zurich (Switzerland) 1,800 km