Besides branches in Luhansk the university has branches in other Ukrainian cities (Sievierodonetsk, Rubizhne, Krasnodon, Antratsyt, Livadiya, Feodosiya, Yevpatoriya, Skadovsk).
In the post-war years, he wrote Elegy to victory and his great poem Krasnodon (1950; but a reworked version of this appeared in book form titled Tinereţe fǎrǎ moarte (Immortal youth) came out in 1957, with eleven subsequent editions), which was influenced by A. A. Fadeyev's Young Guard.
There is a Pamyati pogibshikh museum in the city (In Memory of Dead in English), which is a branch of the Krasnodon-based memorial complex Young Guard.
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.