Rapira is an educational programming language and IDE developed in the Soviet Union in 1986 as part of the Robotecnia Project to teach computer programming to students. The language is based on PASCAL with additional integrated commands for robot control. The platform provided an environment where students could write programs to control simulated robots that performed tasks on a real-time graphic field. This educational system became popular across the USSR and parts of Eastern Europe but has since been largely replaced by modern platforms using Python or JavaScript.