This children’s camp in Solnechnoye (village in Saint Petersburg) was opened in 1965. Still seen are the monstrous concrete structures illustrating famous books (like Swift’s “Gulliver’s travels” or Russian “Kolobok” fairy-tale).
The feeling is a bit surreal and psychedelic, but these sculptures and playgrounds are really characteristic of the “neomodernist” (“brutalist”) architecture of the 1960s-1970s that is only now coming into attention of the researchers.
Many of them stand half-abandoned and need repair.
First published in the Levinarium Telegram Channel (now closed and deleted)