WThe All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, usually known as Komsomol, a syllabic abbreviation of the Russian Коммунистический Союз Молодёжи, was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although it was officially independent and referred to as "the helper and the reserve of the CPSU".
WThe Central Committee of the Komsomol was the executive leadership of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, commonly known as the Komsomol. According to the Komsomol Charter adopted at the 14th Congress of the Komsomol (1962), the Central Committee "directs the entire work of the Komsomol, local Komsomol bodies, represents the Komsomol in state and public institutions and organizations, approves the editorial board of the central body - "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and other editorial offices, distributes the Komsomol budget and monitors its implementation." The Central Committee of the Komsomol was dissolved on September 28, 1991 along with the Komsomol organization itself.
WOskar Cher was an Estonian communist activist.
WLiliana Gasinskaya is a woman who defected from the Soviet Union in 1979. On board a Soviet cruise ship, SS Leonid Sobinov, in Sydney Harbour, Gasinskaya slipped out of a porthole wearing only a red bikini.
WOlga Kazakova is a Russian politician, was the Minister of Culture of the Stavropol Krai, since 2012, deputy of the State Duma, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Culture.
WThe Komsomol direction or Komsomol travel ticket was a document of mobilization in the Soviet Union issued by a Komsomol committee to a Komsomol member which directed the member for temporary or permanent shock construction projects or military service. Usually the Komsomol direction was associated with relocation to new, poorly settled remote locations: new construction sites, army service, etc. The travel ticket appeared sometime after adaptation of the Soviet Labor Code as a type of organizational mobilization.
WKomsomol of Ukraine, officially Leninist Communist League of Youth of Ukraine, is a revived All-Ukrainian youth organization that first was established in 1919 as a youth wing of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine and later revived in 1997 as a youth wing of the modern Communist Party of Ukraine. It was a component part of the All-Union Lenin's Communist League of Youth (Komsomol).
WKomsomolets Island is the northernmost island of the Severnaya Zemlya group in the Russian Arctic, and the third largest island in the group. It is the 82nd largest island on earth. About 65% of the island is covered with glaciers.
WKomsomolskaya Pravda is a daily Russian tabloid newspaper, founded on 13 March 1925.
WAleksandr Vasilyevich Kosarev was a Soviet politician and Communist Party official who was active in the youth movement. He served as the 7th First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol.
WOleg Vasilyevich Koshevoy was a Soviet partisan and one of the founders of the clandestine organization Young Guard, which fought the Nazi forces in Krasnodon during World War II between 1941 and 1945.
WLeninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish SSR was the republican branch of the All Union Leninist Communist Youth League (Komsomol) in the Karelo-Finnish SSR 1940-1956. The first congress of LKSM KFSSR was held June 1-June 3, 1940. The conference elected a Central Committee, with Yuri Andropov as its First Secretary. During the Second World War, the Central Committee of the LKSM KFSSR organized partisan resistance against the occupying forces, both in urban and rural areas.
WMoskovskij Komsomolets is a Moscow-based daily newspaper with a circulation approaching one million, covering general news. Founded in 1919, it is famed for its topical reporting on Russian politics and society.
WRote Jugend was a Volga German communist newspaper. It was the organ of the regional committee of the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth League in the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The newspaper was founded in 1919.
WSäde ('Spark') was an Estonian language youth publication issued from Leningrad, Soviet Union 1927–1929. The first issue was published June 21, 1927. The newspaper replaced the youth magazine Säde, which had been published 1924–1926.
WShock construction projects also Komsomol shock construction projects was a Soviet propaganda term used for certain construction projects by Komsomol shock brigades in the Soviet Union.
WNelya Ihorivna Shtepa is a Ukrainian politician. She was mayor of Sloviansk from 2010 until 2014, when Russian paramilitary troops occupied the city. She was imprisoned by the separatists because she refused to fully co-operate with them, freed by Ukrainian forces, but then imprisoned again by Ukrainian authorities for alleged collusion with the Donetsk People's Republic.
WPyotr Ivanovich Smorodin was a Soviet politician who was a founding member of the Komsomol, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol from 1921 to 1924, a member of the NKVD troika, the First Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1938, and the First Secretary of the Stalingrad City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1938 until his execution in 1939 during the Great Purge.
WSergey Semyonovich Sobyanin is a Russian politician, serving as the 3rd Mayor of Moscow since 21 October 2010.
WYefim Victorovich Tsetlin was a Soviet politician and an activist of the youth communist movement in the Soviet Union.
WFəridə Vəzirova was a World War II veteran and professor of philology in Azerbaijan.
WThe Young Guard was an underground anti-fascist Komsomol organization, in the German-occupied Soviet city of Krasnodon. They were active during World War II, until January 1943. They carried out several acts of sabotage and protest before being destroyed by German forces. Most members of the Young Guard, about 80 people, were tortured and then executed by the Germans.
WZai Greit! was a Yiddish language pioneer newspaper in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 1928-1941. It was an organ of the Central Committee of the Leninist Young Communist League of Ukraine and the People's Commissariat for Education of the Ukrainian SSR. It was published from Kharkov 1928-1937.
WOleksandr Oleksiovich Zinchenko was a Ukrainian politician who was Director-General of the National Space Agency of Ukraine from 2009 to 2010. Oleksandr Zinchenko had a controversial career that includes Soviet Komsomol leadership, business in Russia and Ukraine, participation in the pro-Leonid Kuchma Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united), survival of cancer and joining the anti-Kuchma opposition.