Direction Youth at work Komsomol In The USSR

The Komsomol direction () or Komsomol travel ticket was a

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document of in the

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issued by a

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, usually known as Komsomol, 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 w ...

committee to a Komsomol member, which directed the member to temporary or permanent

shock construction projects Shock 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. Although often associated with Komsomol, shock construct ...

or military service. Usually the Komsomol direction was associated with relocation to new, poorly settled remote locations: new construction sites ("Komsomol construction sites", ), army service, etc. During the 10th five-year plan more than 500,000 young volunteers were assigned to shock construction projects with Komsomol travel tickets. Komsomol organizations formed and directed 100 All-Union squads consisting of 80,000 people. At the construction sites travel tickets recipients earned ''labor days'' (), which were assigned different values that depended on the type of work was performed. The word "putyovka" normally has the meaning of a vacation. During the Soviet period "putyovka" were given to Soviet pioneers to the Artek summer camp, "putyovka" was granted to working intelligentsia, factory workers and other party committee members for vacationing and health improvement "sanatoriums" that were assigned to the particular factories. Instead, the "Komsomolskaya putyovka" carried a special meaning.

Eponymous songs

*''Комсомольская путёвка'', lyrics:

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, music:

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*''Комсомольская путёвка'' (1959), lyrics: , music: Serafim TulikovKomsomol Travel Ticket
Sovmusic.

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File:Komsomolske virzienā, par jaunatnes nodarbinātību Latviešu SSR.jpg, Komsomol travel ticket (

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) to a

student construction brigade Student construction brigades ( ''stroyotryad'', ''SSO'')) are temporary construction teams composed of students in universities and other institutions of higher education to work, usually during school holiday, vacations. This form originated u ...

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References

External links

* Denis Lapin.
Komsomlskaya putyovka (Комсомольская путевка)
'. Infodon.org. 30 October 2012. * Viktor Trushkov.
Komsomlskaya putyovka (Комсомольская путевка)
'. Pravda at the KPRF. 2018 Komsomol Identity documents of the Soviet Union Propaganda in the Soviet Union Soviet phraseology Economy of the Soviet Union Volunteering in the Soviet Union {{USSR-stub ru:Комсомольская путёвка

Eponymous songs

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