Club UNESCO TROPA (Path - Sunny Side) by Yuri Ustinov

Club UNESCO TROPA (Path - Sunny Side) by Yuri Ustinov

Who is Yuriy Ustinov?

Ustinov Yu. M. was born on the 1st of February 1946,
spent his childhood in village Djubga, Tuapse Region,
Krasnodarsky Kraj.

He was brought up by his mother alone.
Mother passed away when he was 11.

After that he lived with his relatives in Moscow.

He finished school in 1964 and worked as a pioneer leader and as a mentor in boarding school.

Having left the boarding school he worked in children tourism and organised sport & tourist group (STG).

In 1972 Ustinov had to stop his work with children.

He was imprisoned on false accusation and forcibly medically treated in mental hospital. After deinstitutionalisation he worked in the Caucasus Mountains as a tourist guide. In late 70th Yuri Ustinov was permitted to recommence a legal work with children and established a club "Sunny Side" in Moscow region.

In 1979-1981 he suffered psychiatric repression in connection with clean-up of Moscow before the Olympic Games. Both first and second rounds of psychiatric repressions were held without any legal accusations. Justice trials were held in his absence. After his second discharge from mental hospital Ustinov worked as an odd-job worker and a boiler-man.

Since 1982 Yuri Ustinov begins to lead summer expeditions which formed tourist paths in the Caucasus Mountains.

During the "Perestroika" ecological expedition "Tropa" ("Path") obtained an official status and financing.

Pedagogic work of Ustinov was covered in the documentaries and periodicals.

In particular a documentary film "Tropa" was made (scenario by N. Krupp, director V. Orehov, 1988).

In "Komsomolskaya Pravda" newspaper a big article "Sunny-Coloured Strap" by Olga Marinicheva was published in 1989.

The work of expedition "Tropa" was also elucidated by other media.

Since 1988 on the initiative of Children Fund Yu. Ustinov began to establish the "Personality Rehabilitation and Development Centre" (PRDC).

In August 1991 six teenagers died and several persons including Ustinov were injured in road accident.

Having made use of the tragedy, authors of the charges put forward against him in 1972 and 1979 conducted a media campaign in order to discredit Ustinov as a personality and pedagogue.

Financial support to "Tropa" and PRDC was stopped. The Russian Federation State Office of Public Prosecutor have been checking the 'facts' stated in the publications for two years.

As the result of the check 'group of people' was refused starting criminal case against Ustinov in connection with absence of the fact of a crime.

In 1992 under Ustinov's direction the program "SOS-Children" was elaborated in order to organise a system of aid for the children suffering a social disaster. In President's program "Children of Russia", in All-Russian Movement of Young Rescuers and in other programs based on joint pedagogics and collaboration pedagogics one can find the features of Ustinov's program.

Ustinov is the author of the first Russian publications and elaborations in the sphere of extremal pedagogics. Variants of this program are being implemented in different cities of Russia and former Soviet Union.

Ustinov has been working with children in Moscow, Tuapse, Ulyanovsk, Saint-Petersburg and many other cities.

Ustinov composes songs since he was 8 years old, mainly using his own poems. Laureate and jury member of All-Russia, regional and international bard competitions and festivals.

He recorded audio-cassettes, CD and wrote a book.

Yuri Ustinov is the president of UNESCO club "Tropa".

Association of Russian Federation pedagogic-oriented UNESCO clubs president.

Received a diploma of honour from the British Council (work with "risk-zone" children).

Laureate of "Nobility" prize of "Russia Radio" for work with homeless children in Volga Region and so on.

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