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29 unusual facts about Komsomol


Alexander Korzhakov

As a KGB official, he became a member of the Communist Party in 1971, being a member of the Party bureau of subdivisions and member of the committee of the Komsomol for the 9th administration.

Dipkun

The settlement was founded in 1975 with the construction of the BAM, built by Komsomol brigades from around Moscow.

Dmitriy Abramenkov

He worked as a crane operator and locomotive technician, then as staff leader of the All-Union Komsomol of the Smolensk AES, chairman of the District Committee of People's Control, instructor of the City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and following election to the State Duma, Master of Production Training at the Roslavl Technical School for Rail Transport.

Durdy Bayramov

Awarded the title of the Laureate of the premium of Lenin Komsomol of USSR.

Earlier in his career, when Turkmenistan was still part of the Soviet Union, he was a prize-winner of the Turkmen Komsomol in 1970 and of the USSR in 1972.

Eesti Skautide Ühing

The new Communist headquarters issued only one order, to liquidate the organizations and to surrender all property, including documents and archives, to the Komsomol Communist youth organization.

Hasan Hasanov

While a student, he chaired the group, faculty and institute Komsomol committee.

Instruktsiya po Vyzhivaniyu

At their first gig, the KGB declared them to be fascists and expelled them from the Komsomol and sent them to the army.

Ivan Aboimov

From 1962–1963, Aboimov was the executive secretary of the Komsomol branch of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic and assistant manager of the Department of Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Komsomol in Latvia.

Julia Dolgorukova

# All-Union Exhibition of works by young artists dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Komsomol (the Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1988)

Konstantin Zatulin

In 1987-1990 he worked in the Central Committee of the Komsomol.

Krasny Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

In 1972 a stela with the bas-relief of the girl and pages from her diary was built on Tanya's grave for means earned by Young Pioneers and members of the Komsomol from the Shatkovsky District.

Leonid Khrushchev

During high school, he received two reprimands from Komsomol (the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union): one for drunkenness and lack of discipline, the other for failure to pay for membership fees.

Marina Kovtun

From 1986 she worked in Murmansk District Committee of the Komsomol, and she was the Head of Kol region.

Natasha Koroleva

She gave her first public performance in 1976, at the age of three, singing The Cruiser Aurora at the annual congress of the Komsomol.

Nikolay Tsukanov

After 1985 he began to gain prominence as a local Komsomol leader.

Sergey Mironov

In 1973 elected deputy secretary committee of Komsomol on ideological educational work at the Leningrad MiCandidates for President of Russianing Institute.

Sofia Rotaru poet pesni Vladimira Ivasyuka

Sofia Rotaru was awarded for this album the grand prix of the Central Committee of Komsomol, which became the reference in the Ukrainian pop culture.

Taisia Afonina

In autumn 1943 with a group of artists Taisia Afonina rides into city Krasnodon draw club before awarding medals to parents died young heroes - members of the underground anti-fascist Komsomol organization named ″Young Guard″, which fought against the Nazis in the occupied city Krasnodon (in the Ukrainian SSR), the feat which he finds the whole country.

Vazha Lortkipanidze

In 1983-1986, he was second and then first secretary of Central Committee of Georgian Komsomol during Eduard Shevardnadze's tenure as the First Secretary of Georgian SSR.

Vazha Zarandia

From March 1961 until January 1965, Zarandia was Secretary of the Komsomol Committee of the Georgian Institute for Subtropical Agriculture in Sukhumi, and then until November 1967, Chairman of its United Trade Union Committee.

Viacheslav Tsugba

From 1973 until 1975, Tsugba was 1st secretary of the Abkhazian regional committee of the Komsomol, from 1975 until 1978 he was 1st secretary of the Ochamchira raikom of the CPSU, and from 1978 to 1989 Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Abkhazian ASSR.

Viktor Khrapunov

Viktor Vyacheslavovich secured his future career by joining political echelons through the powerful youth league Komsomol.

Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union

At age 15, Young Pioneers could join Komsomol, with a recommendation from their Young Pioneer group.

Among other activities, Young Pioneer units, helped by Komsomol, played a great role in the eradication of illiteracy (Likbez policy) since 1923.

The main governing body was the Central Soviet of the Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union, which worked under the leadership of the main governing body of Komsomol.

However, it was the remaining scoutmasters themselves who supported the Komonsol and the Red Army, like Innokentiy Zhukov and some others around Nikolaj Fatyanov's "Brothers of the fire", who introduced the name "pioneer" to it and convinced the Komsomol to keep the scout motto "Be prepared!" and adapt it to "Always prepared!" as the organizational motto and slogan.

Komsomol persistently fought with the remnants of the Scout movement.

Zamira Sydykova

Sydykova studied journalism at the prestigious Moscow State University and after graduating began working as a reporter for the popular newspaper, Komsomolets Kirgizii, the local organ of the Soviet communist party's youth wing, Komsomol.


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1951 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

Stalin Prize winner of 1951 in the area of Fine Arts were painter Boris Ioganson, Vasily Sokolov (for painting «Appearance of Lenin on III convention of Komsomol», Tretyakov gallery), sculptor Sergei Merkurov (for monument to Joseph Stalin in Yerevan), Kukryniksy, painter Dmitriy Nalbandyan (for painting «The Great Frendship»), sculptor Vera Mukhina (for sculpture «We demand Peace»).

English Embankment

This historic spot has been since a traditional location for a swear-in ceremony for new members of the Pioneers and the Komsomol organisations.

Mykola Karpov

He graduated from the Central Komsomol School department of journalism in 1956 and from the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University history department in 1961.

Palace of Culture

Palaces of Culture served another important purpose: they housed local congresses and conferences of the regional divisions of the Communist Party, the Komsomol, etc.

Rootless cosmopolitan

Russian historian Yuri Zhukov traces the campaign back to mid-November 1948, when Georgy Malenkov, head of ideology in the Central Committee, received a letter from the Komsomol, which complained about the low attendance rates for Soviet theaters.

Semyon Morozov

In 1938 he graduated from the High Communist Agricultural School in Rostov-on-Don and was appointed chief of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda at the District Committee of Komsomol (Young Communist League) in the Kazanskaya stanitsa (Cossack village) of the Verkhnedonskoy District of the Rostov Oblast.

Vladimir Konkin

His debut in the Nikolai Mashchenko film How the Steel Was Tempered (1975, after Nikolai Ostrovsky's autobiographical novel made him famous and got him the Lenin Komsomol Prize.