Komsomol of Ukraine

Komsomol of Ukraine, officially Leninist Communist League of Youth of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Ле́нінська Комуністи́чна Спі́лка Мо́лоді Украї́ни), is a revived All-Ukrainian youth organization that first was reestablished in 1919 as a youth wing of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine and later revived in 1997 as a youth wing of the Communist Party of Ukraine. It was a component part of the All-Union Lenin's Communist League of Youth, better known as Komsomol.

Leninist Communist League of Youth of Ukraine
Ле́нінська Комуністи́чна Спі́лка Мо́лоді Украї́ни (ЛКСМУ)
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AbbreviationLCSYU
MottoFor the rights of youth, public rule, socialism!
Formation26 June 1919 (1919-06-26)
Typeyouth organization
Official language
Russian, Ukrainian
LeaderMykhailo Kononovych
Parent organization
Communist Party of Ukraine and
Komsomol Central Committee
AffiliationsMolod Ukrayiny (1991)
Websitehttp://lksmu.com/
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History

The Komsomol in Ukraine was established on June 26, 1919 as the Communist League of Working Youth of Ukraine. In the Soviet Union such organization existed in 1919–1991. It was dissolved after the Communist Party of Ukraine was prohibited in Ukraine. It was revived in 1997. The original publishing newspaper was Molod Ukrayiny (1925–1991).

In 2011 with the support from the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science, Komsomol initiated a process on revival of the Pioneer Organization of Ukraine. The base of such organization will be a reformed ideology of Children Communist. It currently a member of the Left Opposition, as is its mother party.[1]

Leaders of Komsomol
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21922–1922Samuil Ignat
31922–1923Vasyl Vasyutin
11923–1923David Gurevich
41923–1925Dmitriy Pavlov
51925–1927Semyon Vysochinyenko
61927–1928Alexander Milchakov
71928–1930Ivan Korsunov
81930–1933Aleksandr Boichenko
91933–1937Sergei Andryeyev
101937–1938Stepan Usyenko
111938–1943Yakov Khomyenko
121943–1947Vasyl Kostyenko
131947–1950Vladimir Syemichasny
141950–1954Georgiy Shevel
151954–1960Vasyl Drozdyenko
161960–1968Yuriy Yelchenko
171968–1972Aleksandr Kapto
181972–1975Andrei Giryenko
191975–1983Anatoliy Korniyenko
201983–1986Viktor Mironyenko
211986–1989Valeriy Tsybukh
221989–1991Anatoliy Matviyenko
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11997–?????
22014–presentMykhailo Kononovych

See also

References
  1. "Communists and Orthodox united in the "Left Opposition"". Religion in Ukraine (in Russian). 17 June 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
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