Young Pioneer (Soviet)

Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organisation Всесоюзная Пионерская организация имени Владимира Ленина
Founded	19 May 1922
Dissolved	1991
Headquarters	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
International affiliation	International Committee of Children's and Adolescents' Movements

The Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization (Russian: Всесою́зная пионе́рская организа́ция и́мени В. И. Ле́нина  listen ; tr.:Vsesoyuznaya pionerskaya organizatsiya imeni V. I. Lenina), or the Young Pioneers, was a mass youth organization of the Soviet Union for children of age 10–15 that existed between 1922 and 1991. Similar to the Scouting organisations of the Western world, Pioneers learned skills of social cooperation and attended publicly funded summer camps.

After the October Revolution of 1917, some Scouts took the Bolsheviks' side, which would later lead to the establishment of ideologically altered Scoutlike organizations, such as ЮК (Юные Коммунисты, or young communists; pronounced as yook) and others.

During the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1921, most of the Scoutmasters and many Scouts fought in the ranks of the White Army and interventionists against the Red Army.

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