About the project

Addiction requires comprehensive help - work with the physical and psychological state, thinking, relationships and the social environment. The goal is not just to stop using, but to help a person make a lasting return to a full life.

Participants of rehabilitation programmes, coaches, specialists, public figures, athletes and people from the world of culture all meet in one place.

2004

the year Nikita launched the camp project

22 years

the anti-drug camps have been running

20,000+

people have taken part in the camps

Nikita Lushnikov was born in 1982 in Belgorod. He did sport throughout his childhood and youth: his father was a well-known athlete in the city, a Master of Sport in boxing.

In the late 1990s heroin flooded Belgorod: the drug was sold in almost every apartment block. In 2004 Nikita decided to devote his life to helping people caught up in this kind of trouble. Together with like-minded people he founded a network of rehabilitation centres in his home city, the Healthy Youth Centre.

In 2009 Nikita moved to Moscow and became head of the Healthy Youth Centre charitable foundation. He was the first in Russia to run sports and therapy camps for people with addiction. Since then more than 20,000 people have taken part in the camps.

From 2013 Nikita took part in the work of the Cross-Party Working Group of Deputies on Addiction Prevention and Rehabilitation at the State Duma. He was one of the authors of the Social Lift project, which helps people who have completed rehabilitation to get an education, a profession and a job.

Nikita holds a degree in management and a master’s degree in psychology. He is raising a son and a daughter and practises boxing and mixed martial arts.

Over 22 years of work Nikita has become convinced that addiction can be stopped.