Schoolchildren hold red neckerchiefs, a symbol of the Young Pioneer Organisation, during an inauguration ceremony of newly-joined members at the Red Square, in Moscow, Russia.

19.05.2024#8687697

Schoolchildren wearing red neckerchiefs, a symbol of the Young Pioneer Organization, march during an inauguration ceremony of 47 newly-joined members on the day of the 101st anniversary of the Pioneer movement's founding in the Soviet Union, at school-lyceum number 12 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. While the organization lost its dominance among students in post-Soviet Russia, some families and educational institutions, including school-lyceum number 12 which is the only one of this kind in Krasnoyarsk, still carry on this tradition.

19.05.2023#8437314

Trumpeter Olga Sharkova from the fourth unit of the Zarnitsa Young Pioneer camp for children of workers building the Novgorod chemical plant.

01.08.1974#588337

Schoolchildren wearing red neckerchiefs, a symbol of the Young Pioneer Organisation, salute during an inauguration ceremony of newly-joined members at the Red Square, in Moscow, Russia.

21.05.2023#8439006

Moscow schoolgirl Yulia Arkhipova holds a torch at a festival in 'Artek' pioneer camp.

12.07.1985#22442

Initiation into Young Pioneers held on Red Square.

14.05.2006#127611

Participants of the parade on the 50th anniversary of the Lenin Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union, Red Square, Moscow.

19.05.1972#579442

Making friends in Artek.

01.08.1981#22467

Admitting to the pioneers' organization.

19.05.1965#690271

The 50th anniversary of the Lenin All-Union Young Pioneer Organization. Photo: New members join in.

19.05.1972#5503093

Artek Pioneers on the deck of a boat on the Black Sea.

01.08.1981#22472

Young Pioneers' camp named after Vladimir Dubinin.

17.08.1984#23207

Pioneers blow the trumpets at 'Skazka' pioneer camp.

01.08.1979#23783

Children sing round the fire in the Artek recreation camp on the Black Sea coast

03.07.1981#51268

Young buglers from the all-Russian Young Pioneer and Komsomol Orlyonok summer camp of the YCL Central Committee.

16.07.1976#50357

Pioneers saluting at a parade in honor of Pioneer Day.

19.05.1979#50423

Moscow schoolchildren after joining the young pioneers' ranks in the Red square.

19.05.1965#41222

A bugler and drummers at a morning roll-call in the Lastochka (Swallow) children's summer camp near Cheboksary in the Chuvash Republic.

06.06.1983#156961

Members of one of the first Young Pioneer squads in Novosibirsk.

01.08.1925#54519

Joining young pioneers. Red Square

19.05.1965#551964

Participants of the parade on Red Square in Moscow on the 50th Anniversary of Soviet Power and 45th Anniversary of the All-Union V.I.Lenin Pioneer Organization.

19.05.1967#702367

Participants of the parade on Red Square in Moscow on the 50th Anniversary of Soviet Power and 45th Anniversary of the All-Union V.I.Lenin Pioneer Organization.

19.05.1967#702369

Young Pioneers during a parade on Day of the Young Pioneer Organization.

19.05.1972#37280

Participants of the parade on the 50th anniversary of the Lenin Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union, Red Square, Moscow.

19.05.1972#579440

A horner at pioneers' rally in the pioneer camp "Young cosmonaut".

01.06.1972#606798

Call for a morning lineup in the Young Pioneers' camp "Yuny Kosmonavt".

01.06.1972#606784

Badge of the Central Council of the Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization "For active work with pioneers." Instituted November 21, 1958.

01.01.1974#468630

Pioneer delegation delivering a report. The 17th Congress of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.

24.04.1974#590091

School students from Yutsa village school in the Stavropol Territory's Predgorny District.

01.09.1979#493147