Kids

More Than A Piggy Bank By Ira Iosebashvili

Issue 6 May 13 - June 10, 2004

	Maria Vereshchagina
	Deltaland: signing up

Located inside Detsky Mir on Teatralny Proyezd, DeltaLand’s sleek, futuristic-looking interior features much of what you’ve come to expect at a bank, including cash machines, teller windows and security guards. DeltaLand offers a full range of banking services — but the omnipresent reams of drawing paper, rows of arcade machines, and a host of cartoon characters on the wall cheerfully brandishing their bankcards are a dead giveaway that this is not your ordinary bank.

Maria Vereshchagina
Space age: internet room

So how does it all work? Kids from ages 6 to 18 can open an account at DeltaLand. Predictably, if your children want to open an account and they’re under 14, you have to open an account with DeltaBank; kids age 14 and up can open an account without their parents’ permission. Once that is taken care of, your miniature Rockefellers receive their own Visa Electron bankcard and may withdraw cash to their heart’s content — or up to the limit that you set (minimum limit is $10). Cash can be withdrawn and deposited in dollars or rubles, and all transactions are free of charge. If your kids are Russian citizens, they can also receive a Visa credit card for which you determine the credit limit.

DeltaLand customers receive discounts at nearby Detsky Mir — the perfect place for kids to put their newly acquired skills into practice.