Operation “Summer-2008” at the Sambir Educational Colony in the Lviv Region.

In the Lviv region, at the Sambir Educational Colony, Operation “Summer-2008” was held this September, which included a complex of physical fitness, health, regime-pedagogical, and cultural events.

Among these were festive assemblies dedicated to the last and first bell, Children's Day, Constitution Day, and Ukraine's Independence Day, attended by the leadership of the district and city councils of Sambir, priests, educators, and representatives of the Department for the Execution of Sentences in the Lviv region. Sports competitions were held for the cup named after A.S. Makarenko, Honoured Teacher of Ukraine and recipient of the A.S. Makarenko Medal, M.V. Rashkevych. Lectures on legal, economic, sanitary, and moral-aesthetic education for adolescents were conducted in the divisions of the educational colony by staff and service members, and visual information in the divisions was updated.

In addition, the final part of the summer correspondence sports spartakiad was held, where the residents competed in the following sports: track and field, table tennis, chess, draughts, strength training, volleyball, and basketball. A judging panel comprising representatives of the public and the authorities was established to conduct the competitions.

Also, within the framework of the ‘operation’, the final of the inter-colony festival of amateur artistic creativity of convicts, “Red Viburnum” (Chervona Kalyna), took place, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian educator A.S. Makarenko, which has been reported on previously.


Information from the Prison Portal.

Operation “Summer-2008” was carried out to ensure the implementation of the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated 15 March 2002: “On Urgent Additional Measures to Strengthen Morality in Society and Establish a Healthy Lifestyle”, to foster national consciousness among young people, to educate them in the best national traditions, to maintain public order among convicts, and also in connection with the summer holidays at school.