Young Guard (Komsomol organization). History of the Young Guard

"Young Guard", an underground Komsomol organization operating in the city of Krasnodon, Voroshilovgrad region. during the Great Patriotic War 1941-45, during the period of temporary occupation of the Donbass by the Nazi troops.

The "Young Guard" arose under the leadership of the party underground, headed by F.P. Lyutikov. After the occupation of Krasnodon by the Nazis (July 20, 1942), several anti-fascist youth groups: I. A. Zemnukhov, O. V. Koshevoy, V. I. Levashov, S. G. Tyulenin, A. Z. Eliseenko, V. A. Zhdanov, N. S. Sumsky, U. M. Gromova, A V. Popova, M. K. Peglivanova.

On October 2, 1942, communist E. Ya. Moshkov held the first organizational meeting of the leaders of youth groups in the city and nearby villages. The created underground organization was named "M. g.". Its headquarters included: Gromova, Zemnukhov, Koshevoy (commissioner "M. G."), Levashov, V. I. Tretyakevich, I. V. Turkenich (commander "M. G."), Tyulenin, L. G. Shevtsov.

"Young Guard" consisted of 91 people. (including 26 workers, 44 students and 14 employees), of which 15 are communists. the organization had 4 radios, an underground printing house, weapons and explosives. Issued and distributed 5,000 anti-fascist leaflets of 30 titles; on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Great October socialist revolution hung out 8 Soviet flags in the city. Members of the organization destroyed enemy vehicles with soldiers, ammunition and fuel. On November 15, 1942, the Young Guards released 70 Soviet prisoners of war from a fascist concentration camp, and 20 Soviet prisoners of war who were in the hospital were also released.

As a result of the arson on the night of December 6, 1942, the building of the fascist labor exchange, where lists of people intended for export to Germany were stored, about 2 thousand Krasnodon residents were saved from being deported into fascist slavery.

The underground party organization of the city and the "Young Guard" were preparing an armed uprising in order to destroy the fascist garrison and meet Soviet army. The betrayal of the provocateur Pocheptsov interrupted this preparation.

In the fascist dungeons, the Young Guard bravely and steadfastly withstood the most severe tortures. On January 15, 16 and 31, 1943, the Nazis, partly alive, partly shot, threw 71 people. in the pit of mine No. 5, with a depth of 53 m. Koshevoy, Shevtsova, S. M. Ostapenko, D. U. Ogurtsov, V. F. Subbotin, after brutal torture, were shot in the Thundering Forest near the city of Rovenka on February 9, 1943. 4 people. shot in other areas. 11 people left the police pursuit: A. V. Kovalev went missing, Turkenich and S. S. Safonov died at the front, G. M. Arutyunyants, V. D. Borts, A. V. Lopukhov, O. I. Ivantsova, N. M. Ivantsova, Levashov, M. T. Shishchenko and R. P. Yurkin survived. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 13, 1943, Gromova, Zemnukhov, Koshevoy, Tyulenin, Shevtsova were awarded the title of Hero Soviet Union, 3 participants "M. g." were awarded the Order of the Red Banner, 35 - the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, 6 - the Order of the Red Star, 66 - the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" of the 1st degree. The feat of the heroes of "M. g." depicted in the novel by A. A. Fadeev "The Young Guard". Named in memory of the organization new town Voroshilovgrad region - Molodogvardeysk (1961); named after heroes settlements, state farms, collective farms, ships, etc.

Lit .: Young Guard. Sat. documents and memories, 3rd ed., Donetsk, 1972.

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Fighting affairs of the Krasnodon underground
MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF THE Ukrainian SSR
Krasnodonsky State Order Friendship of Peoples Museum "Young Guard"
Krasnodon, Voroshilovgrad region, pl. them. Young Guard, tel. No. 2-33-73

The Nazis occupied Krasnodon on July 20, 1942. About this time, the commander of the "Young Guard" Ivan Turkenich in his report "Days of the Underground" wrote: "A council was created, a labor exchange, the police were introduced, the Gestapo arrived. Mass arrests of communists, Komsomol members, order bearers, old red partisans began. All of them were shot. .. In the days of the bloody fascist revelry, our "Young Guard" was born. A headquarters was created, which included Ivan Turkenich (commander), Oleg Koshevoy (commissar), Ulyana Gromova, Ivan Zemnukhov, Vasily Levashov, Viktor Tretyakevich, Sergei Tyulenin, Lyubov Shevtsova.
All combat activity youth organization took place under the direct supervision of the party underground, which was carried out through the headquarters of the "Young Guard". The communists set before the young underground workers the task of debunking the lies of Hitler's propaganda, instilling faith in the inevitable defeat of the enemy. The Young Guards considered it their duty to rouse the youth and the population of Krasnodon region to an active struggle against the Nazis, provide themselves with weapons and, at a convenient moment, switch to open armed struggle.
From the first days of their rule, the Nazis tried to get the mines working. Therefore, following the occupied troops, the so-called Directorate No. 10 arrived in Krasnodon, which is part of the system of the "Eastern Society for the Exploitation of Coal and Metallurgical Enterprises", designed to pump out Krasnodon coal. The work of the Central Electromechanical Workshops was resumed, where, risking their lives, the leaders of the underground communists Filipp Petrovich Lyutikov and Nikolai Petrovich Barakov settled down. Using their official position, they accept underground workers into the workshops and from here they lead the "Young Guard". Everything necessary is being done so that the enterprise, which, according to the plan of the invaders, was supposed to restore the mines of Krasnodon, does not work at full capacity. Young heroes spoiled the equipment, slowed down the work, destroying individual parts of the machines, committed sabotage. So, on the eve of the launch of mine No. 1 "Sorokino", Yuri Vizenovsky sawed a rope, with which the cage was lowered into the shaft. The multi-ton cage broke off, destroying everything in its path restored with such difficulty by the occupiers. Thanks to the active work of the people's avengers, the Nazis were not able to take out a single ton of coal from the Krasnodon mines.
Great importance the Young Guards gave to the distribution of leaflets among the population. Radio receivers were installed in the apartments of Nikolai Petrovich Barakov, Oleg Koshevoy, Nikolai Sumsky, Sergey Levashov. Underground workers listened to the reports of the Soviet Information Bureau, based on their texts they compiled leaflets, with the help of which they conveyed to the inhabitants of the city and the region the truth about the Red Army, about our Soviet power. In the beginning, proclamations were written by hand on pieces of school notebooks. It took a lot of time, so the headquarters of the "Young Guard" decided to create an underground printing house. She was in the house of Georgy Arutyunyants on the outskirts of the city. Having closed the windows with shutters, Ivan Zemnukhov, Viktor Tretyakevich, Vasily Levashov, Vladimir Osmukhin, Georgy Arutyunyants and other guys spent the night at a primitive machine, printing leaflets.
The first printed leaflets appeared in the city on November 7, 1942. When spreading their underground, they showed initiative and ingenuity. Oleg Koshevoy, for example, wore a police uniform at night and, moving freely along the street after curfew, posted proclamations; Vasily Pirozhok managed to stick leaflets into the pockets of Krasnodon residents at the market, even attach them to the backs of policemen; Sergei Tyulenin "patronized" the cinema. He appeared here before the beginning of the session. At the most convenient moment, when the projectionist turned off the lights in the hall, Sergei threw leaflets into the auditorium.
Many leaflets went outside the city - to Sverdlovsky, Rovenkovsky, Novosvetlovsky districts, to the Rostov region. In total, during the occupation, the Young Guard distributed more than 5,000 copies of leaflets of 30 names.
The headquarters constantly carried out work to involve young people in the ranks of the "Young Guard". If in September there were 35 people in the underground, then in December there were 92 underground members in the organization. On the recommendation of the Communists, all members of the "Young Guard" were divided into fives, with whom the headquarters maintained contacts through liaisons.
At the end of September, the Young Guards, led by Ivan Turkenich, hanged in the city park two traitors to the Motherland, who were especially zealous in reprisals against civilians. Shock groups of youth carried out successful operations for the destruction of German vehicles on the roads going from Krasnodon to Sverdlovsk, Voroshilovgrad, Izvarino.
The 25th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution was approaching. The Communists instructed the Young Guards to hang red flags over the occupied city. On the night of November 7, eight groups of underground fighters set off to carry out a combat mission. The day before, the girls had prepared the cloths by sewing together pieces of cloth and repainting them into red cloth. In the morning, Krasnodon residents saw blazing autumn wind red flags. This military operation underground made a huge impression on the inhabitants of the city. “When I saw the flag at the school,” said M.A. Litvinova, an eyewitness of the events, “an involuntary joy seized me. I woke up the children and quickly ran across the road to Mukhina. She said: “Maria Alekseevna, this was done for us Soviet people. We are remembered, we are not forgotten by ours ... ".
On this unforgettable day, young underground workers distributed leaflets throughout the city and region and provided financial assistance families of veterans. “... We prepared holiday gifts for the families of workers, especially those who suffered at the hands of German executioners,” wrote Ivan Turkenich. “We allocated money for them from our Komsomol fund and bought food. I remember that on the eve of the holiday I went with a bundle under my arm to the outskirts where the family of my comrade-front-line soldier lived. He, too, was, like me, Soviet officer. His wife, an old mother and four children remained in Krasnodon. And so I brought them a holiday gift. The hungry children unrolled the paper and, with a cry of joy, found bread and some cereal. How grateful the exhausted people were to us for these modest gifts.
In December, Ivan Zemnukhov, Ivan Turkenich, Anatoly Popov, Demyan Fomin helped 20 prisoners of war escape from captivity, who were placed by the Nazis in the building of the Pervomaiskaya hospital, and soon a group of Yevgeny Moshkov released more than 70 Soviet soldiers from the prisoner of war camp, which was located in the Volchensky farm of the Rostov region.
The glory of the "Young Guard" grew. The underground workers of Krasnodon were not limited to activities in the city and the region. The communists believed that it was necessary to look for connections with the partisans of other districts and regions. To establish contacts with the people's avengers operating in the Rostov region, the headquarters sent a messenger Oksana. Olga Ivantsova worked underground under such a pseudonym. Oksana repeatedly visited the Kamensky partisans, met with messengers and the command of the detachment. It was about uniting the forces of partisans and underground fighters for a joint action against the Nazis behind enemy lines.
The vigorous activity of the underground workers aroused impotent anger among the occupiers. The police begin to intensively search for the perpetrators of anti-fascist measures. The most severe regime is established in the city. To disguise the activities of the underground, Ivan Zemnukhov, Yevgeny Moshkov, Viktor Tretyakevich, Valeria Borts, Lyubov Shevtsova, Vladimir Zagoruiko, Vasily Levashov and others, on the advice of the Communists, get a job at the Gorky Club. Three circles began to operate here, in which most of the participants were underground workers. Young people, hiding behind classes in circles, could meet without arousing suspicion from the authorities. From here the guys went on combat missions.
Once Lyuba Shevtsova came excitedly to a meeting of the headquarters. She learned that the Nazis were going to steal young people to work in Germany. Lists have already been prepared at the labor exchange. The headquarters decided to disrupt the recruitment. To this end, several leaflets were issued, in which they called on the population to save their children from fascist slavery. And Lyuba Shevtsova, Viktor Lukyanchenko and Sergei Tyulenin, on the night of December 5, carried out a brilliant operation to set fire to the labor exchange. Documents prepared by the Nazis for more than 2,000 Krasnodon residents were burned in the fire. By morning, only charred walls remained from the ominous building of the exchange, which the people called the "black exchange".
The headquarters attached great importance to the armament of the underground. The Young Guards obtained weapons and ammunition by all means. They stole them from the Nazis, collected them in places of recent battles, and finished them off in armed clashes with the enemy. The weapon was stored in the cellars of the destroyed building of the city bath. Ivan Turkenich noted in his report that by the end of 1942 "the warehouse had 15 machine guns, 80 rifles, 300 grenades, about 15,000 rounds of ammunition, 10 pistols, 65 kg of explosives and several hundred meters of Fickford cord." The underground workers were going to direct all these weapons against the Nazis located on the territory of Krasnodon. The Young Guards were actively preparing for an armed uprising. Their plan was to destroy the enemy and thereby help the Red Army to liberate their hometown faster. But vile betrayal interrupted the preparations for an armed uprising. Most of the Young Guards were arrested and, after severe torture in January 1943, were thrown into the pit of mine No. 5.

Directorate of the Museum "Young Guard"

Legends of the Great Patriotic War. "Young guard"

More than sixty years have passed since the world learned about the brutal massacre perpetrated by the fascist invaders on members of the underground organization "Young Guard" operating in the Ukrainian mining town of Krasnodon. However, to this day, despite the abundance of documented eyewitness accounts and court verdicts, it is not known for certain who was responsible for the defeat of the Krasnodon underground.

In mid-February 1943, after the liberation of Donetsk Krasnodon by Soviet troops, several dozen corpses of teenagers tortured by the Nazis, who during the period of occupation were in the underground organization "Young Guard", were removed from the pit of mine N5 located near the city.

A few months later, Pravda published an article by Alexander Fadeev "Immortality", on the basis of which the novel "Young Guard" was written a little later, dedicated to the events that resulted in the death of people found in the mine. Subsequently, it was from this work that the vast majority of citizens, first of the Soviet Union, and then of Russia, formed an idea of ​​​​the activities of the Krasnodon underground during the occupation. Until the end of the 80s, Fadeev's novel was perceived as a canonized history of the organization, and any other interpretation of events was impossible by definition.

Meanwhile, it is no secret to anyone that the novel, which glorified its heroes - young underground workers, had a rather difficult fate. The book was first published in 1946. However, after some time, Alexander Fadeev was sharply criticized for the fact that the "leading and guiding" role is not clearly expressed in the novel. Communist Party. The writer took into account the wishes, and in 1951 the second edition of the novel "Young Guard" saw the light. At the same time, Fadeev repeated more than once: "I wrote not true story young guards, but a novel that not only allows, but even suggests fiction.

These circumstances have become fertile ground for the emergence of many speculations about the reality of the events described in the novel. At first, distrust of the official version manifested itself mainly at the level of quiet whispers in the kitchens and vulgar children's jokes, and with the beginning of perestroika, it spilled over into the pages of newspapers and magazines.

And for more than a decade and a half, between those who continue to adhere to the traditional version, and those who do not stop trying to separate the facts from the fiction of the author of the novel "The Young Guard", there has been a rather lively correspondence discussion, the end of which is not yet in sight. Moreover, most copies break around several key points: the reality of the events described by Fadeev, the names of the real organizers and leaders of the underground, as well as the true culprits of the death of most members of the organization.

Parade of "traitors"

In fairness, it should be noted that there were not so many of those who tried to challenge the very existence of an underground youth organization in Krasnodon. The facts collected in the post-war years, the memories of eyewitnesses, as well as the surviving members of the Young Guard, indicated that the underground organization really existed. And not only existed, but also conducted a very active activity.

In 1993, a press conference was held in Lugansk by a special commission to study the history of the Young Guard. As Izvestiya wrote then (05/12/1993), after two years of work, the commission gave its assessment of the versions that had excited the public for almost half a century. The conclusions of the researchers were reduced to several fundamental points. In July-August 1942, after the capture of the Luhansk region by the Nazis, many underground youth groups spontaneously arose in the mining Krasnodon and the surrounding villages. They, according to the memoirs of contemporaries, were called "Star", "Sickle", "Hammer", etc. However, there is no need to talk about any party leadership. In October 1942, Viktor Tretyakevich united them into the Young Guard. It was he, and not Oleg Koshevoy, who, according to the findings of the commission, became the commissioner of the underground organization. There were almost twice as many members of the "Young Guard" as later recognized by the competent authorities. The guys fought like a partisan, risky, suffering heavy losses, and this, as noted at a press conference, ultimately led to the failure of the organization.

At the suggestion of Alexander Fadeev, the image of the main culprit in the death of the "Young Guard" - Yevgeny Stakhovich, who, under torture, gave out the names of most of the underground fighters, firmly settled in the public mind. At the same time, although Fadeev himself repeatedly stated that the traitor Stakhovich is a collective image and resemblance to real Young Guards by chance, very many, and primarily the participants in those events who managed to survive, were deeply convinced that its prototype, paradoxically, was the already mentioned Viktor Tretyakevich. The debate about how the hero suddenly turned into a traitor has not subsided so far.

In 1998, the newspaper "Duel" (09/30/1998) published an article by A.F. Gordeev Heroes and Traitors. It described in sufficient detail the history of the emergence, activity and collapse of the Krasnodon underground, which differed significantly from that described by Fadeev in the novel The Young Guard.

According to Gordeev, the "Young Guard" (the real name of the organization "Hammer") was created in early October 1942 on the initiative of Viktor Tretyakevich. The anti-fascist Komsomol youth groups of Ivan Zemnukhov, Yevgeny Moshkov, Nikolai Sumsky, Boris Glavan, Sergey Tyulenin and others, which spontaneously arose and acted separately in Krasnodon and its environs, became the core of it. On October 6, 1942, Gennady Pocheptsov, whose stepfather , V.G. Gromov, collaborated with the occupation authorities and subsequently played a fatal role in the history of the "Young Guard".

"Duel", referring to archival documents, writes that after learning about the arrest of the leaders of the underground (Zemnukhov, Tretyakevich and Moshkov were captured on January 1, 1943) and not finding a way out of the current situation, Pocheptsov turned to his stepfather for advice. Gromov immediately suggested that his stepson immediately inform the police about the underground workers. Gromov confirmed this treacherous parting word during interrogation on May 25, 1943: "I told him that he could be arrested and, in order to save his life, he must write a statement to the police and extradite the members of the organization. He listened to me."

On January 3, 1943, Pocheptsov was taken to the police and interrogated first by V. Sulikovsky (head of the Krasnodon district police), and then by investigators Didyk and Kuleshov. The informant confirmed the authorship of the applicant and his affiliation with the underground Komsomol organization operating in Krasnodon, named the goals and objectives of its activities, indicated the place of storage of weapons and ammunition hidden in Gundor mine No. 18. As Kuleshov later testified, “Pocheptsov said that he really was a member of the underground Komsomol organization ... called the leaders of this organization, or rather, the city headquarters, namely: Tretyakevich, Lukashov, Zemnukhov, Safonov, Koshevoy. Pocheptsov called Tretyakevich the head of the citywide organization. He himself was a member of the May Day organization. " Those secret information that Pocheptsov owned and which became the "property" of the police turned out to be quite enough to uncover the Komsomol youth underground and liquidate it. In total, more than 70 people were arrested for belonging to the underground in Krasnodon and its environs.

"Duel" cites the testimony of some participants in the brutal massacre of underground workers.

During interrogation on July 9, 1947, the head of the gendarmerie, Renatus, said: “... The translator Lina Artes asked to be released from work, since the gendarmes during interrogations treat the arrested too rudely. Guardsman Zons allegedly beat the arrested severely after dinner. I granted her request and spoke on this issue with Zons. He admitted that he really beat the arrested, but for the reason that he could not get evidence from them in any other way. "

Police investigator Cherenkov about Sergey Tyulenin: “He was mutilated beyond recognition, his face was covered with bruises and swollen, blood was oozing from open wounds. Three Germans immediately entered and after them Burgardt (translator A.G.), called by Sulikovsky, appeared. One German asked Sulikovsky what kind of person he was beaten like that. Sulikovsky explained. The German, like an angry tiger, knocked Sergey down with a blow of his fist and began to torment his body with forged German boots. He struck him with terrible force in the stomach, back, face, trampled and tore to pieces his clothes along with the body. At the beginning of this terrible execution, Tyulenin showed signs of life, but soon he fell silent and was dragged dead out of the office. "

Courageously kept on interrogations and other young guards. Ulyana Gromova was hung up by her hair, a five-pointed star was carved on her back, her chest was cut off, her body was burned with a red-hot iron, salt was sprinkled on her wounds, and she was put on a red-hot stove. However, she was silent, just as Bondareva, Ivanikhina, Zemnukhova and many others, who were subsequently thrown into the pit of mine N5, were silent.

Pocheptsov, according to Duel, managed to hide for some time after the arrival of the Soviet troops, and he was arrested only on March 8, 1943. To mitigate his guilt, Pocheptsov already at the first interrogation cast a shadow of suspicion on Viktor Tretyakevich. Answering the question of the Soviet investigator about what prompted him to hand over the members of the underground organization, he referred to Ivan Zemnukhov, who allegedly told him on December 18, 1942 that Tretyakevich had betrayed the Young Organization and that the police had information about it. This news allegedly prompted Pocheptsov to file a statement with the police.

At the same time, in 1999, the Sovershenno sekretno newspaper (03/17/1999), referring to the materials of Case N20056 on charges of policemen and German gendarmes in the massacre of the underground organization Young Guard, expressed the opinion that the "official traitor" Pocheptsov did not told investigators nothing new. Before him, Olga Lyadskaya allegedly managed to tell the Germans about the activities of the underground in detail, who was not an underground worker and was arrested quite by accident.

After the arrest of Zemnukhov, Tretyakevich and Moshkov came to Tosya Mashchenko in search of Valya Borts, who by that time had already gone to the front line. The policeman liked Tosya's tablecloth and decided to take it with him. Under the tablecloth lay Lyadskaya's unsent letter to her friend Fyodor Izvarin. She wrote that she did not want to leave for Germany in "SLAVERY". That's right: in quotation marks and capital letters. The investigator promised to hang Lyadskaya in the market for her capital letters in quotation marks, unless he immediately names others who are dissatisfied with the new order. Further, the publication cites the testimony of Lyadskaya contained in Case No. 20056:

“I named the people whom I suspected of partisan activity: Kozyrev, Tretyakevich, Nikolaenko, because they once asked me if we had partisans on the farm and if I helped them. And after Solikhovsky threatened to beat me, I gave girlfriend Mashchenko, Borts ... "

As for Pocheptsov, according to Top Secret, he really betrayed the group in the village of Pervomaisky and the headquarters of the Young Guard in the following order: Tretyakevich (chief), Lukashev, Zemnukhov, Safonov and Koshevoy. In addition, Pocheptsov named the commander of his "five" - ​​Popov. However, his testimony, according to the publication, was no longer so important, since Tretyakevich was betrayed by another member of the underground - Tosya Mashchenko. After that, Tretyakevich himself "betrayed Shevtsova and began to call the 'Young Guards' whole villages."

But "Top Secret" is not limited to this list of traitors and notes that in the documents a certain Chinese Yakov Ka Fu is also mentioned as a traitor to the "Young Guard". He allegedly could be offended by the Soviet government, because before the war he was fired from his job because of his poor knowledge of the Russian language.

... for lack of corpus delicti

For a long time, Zinaida Vyrikova was considered another culprit for the death of the Young Guard. She, like Lyadskaya, was one of the anti-heroines of the novel The Young Guard. At the same time, Fadeev did not even change the names of the girls, which subsequently greatly complicated their lives. Both Vyrikova and Lyadskaya were convicted of treason and sent to camps for a long time. As "Moskovsky Komsomolets" notes (06/18/2003), the stigma of traitors was removed from women only in 1990, after their numerous complaints and strict inspections by the prosecutor's office.

"MK" quotes the "certificate" that Olga Alexandrovna Lyadskaya received after 47 years of shame (according to the information of the publication, Zinaida Vyrikova also received approximately the same document): "Criminal case on charges of Lyadskaya O.A., born in 1926, reviewed by the military tribunal of the Moscow Military District on March 16, 1990. The decision of the Special Conference under the Ministry of State Security of the USSR of October 29, 1949 in relation to Lyadskaya O.A. was canceled, and the criminal case was dismissed due to the absence of corpus delicti in her actions. rehabilitated."

There is not a word in the material of Moskovsky Komsomolets about whether Lyadskaya's confession that she betrayed Kozyrev, Tretyakevich, Nikolaenko, Mashchenko, Borts was taken into account when deciding on the rehabilitation. At the same time, the article mentions two more new names of persons through whose fault the "Young Guard" could have been crushed.

"MK", ​​as well as four years earlier, the newspaper "Sovershenno sekretno", refers to materials found in the archives of the FSB. Namely, a criminal case against 16 traitors to the Motherland who worked for the Germans in the occupied Krasnodon. 14 of them openly collaborated with the German gendarmerie. And only two defendants, according to the publication, are somewhat out of the general picture of absolute traitors - 20-year-old Georgy Statsenko and 23-year-old namesake of the author of the novel "Young Guard" Gury Fadeev.

George's father - Vasily Statsenko - was the burgomaster of Krasnodon. That's why George got "on the pencil." In addition, he was a Komsomol member and knew the Young Guard: Zemnukhov, Koshevoy, Tretyakevich, Levashov, Osmukhin, Turkenich, and others.

"Moskovsky Komsomolets" cites excerpts from the testimony of Statsenko, who was arrested on September 22, 1946:

“Being a Komsomol member, I enjoyed the trust of my comrades, because outwardly I showed myself devoted to the Soviet regime. I told my father about Levashov’s proposal to me to join the underground Komsomol organization. He also said that Zemnukhov showed me a leaflet, read poems written by him against the Germans. And in general, I told my father, my schoolmates: Zemnukhov, Arutyunyants, Koshevoy and Tretyakevich, are members of an underground organization and are actively working against the Germans.

Gury Fadeev, according to MK, also knew the Young Guards, was especially friendly with the family of Oleg Koshevoy. He became suspicious after one night he got into the police - at an odd hour a German patrol caught him on the street and, during a search, found an anti-fascist leaflet in his pocket. However, for some reason he was quickly released from the gendarmerie. And then, according to witnesses, he allegedly almost did not get out of the police.

"After I was recruited by the police to identify persons distributing the leaflets of the Young Guard, I met with Deputy Police Chief Zakharov several times. During one of the interrogations, Zakharov asked: "Which of the partisans recruited your sister Alla?" I, knowing about this, according to my mother, betrayed Zakharov to Vanya Zemnukhov, who really made an offer to my sister to join an underground anti-fascist organization.I told him that in the apartment of Korostylev (Oleg Koshevoy's uncle), sister Korostyleva Elena Nikolaevna Koshevaya and her son Oleg, which records the messages of the Sovinform Bureau".

From the words of Fadeev, recorded in the protocol of interrogation, it turned out that during the occupation he entered the service of the German directorate as a geologist and was engaged in redrawing drafted Soviet power geological maps, plans of mines and developments. At the same time, Fadeev gave a signature stating that he undertakes to help the police in identifying partisans.

The most curious thing about this story is that neither Statsenko nor Fadeev were shot. On March 6, 1948, by a special meeting at the Ministry of State Security of the USSR for treason, Guriy Fadeev was sentenced to 25 years in camps, and Georgy Statsenko to 15 years (the remaining 14 people involved in this case received 25 years each). But the amazing adventures of Statsenko and Fadeev did not end there either. In 1954, with the coming to power of Khrushchev, the "case of traitors" was reviewed: the sentence was left unchanged to everyone except Statsenko. His sentence was reduced by 5 years.

Moskovsky Komsomolets quotes case materials that shed light on the reasons for the unexpected commutation of the sentence:

“During the interrogation on October 4, 1946, Statsenko admitted his guilt, but later retracted his testimony. He claimed that the arrests of the Young Guards began long before his conversation with his father. his son ... None of the convicts in this case showed that the burgomaster's son would have provided any information that would have been used by the police in the arrest of the Young Guards ... Thus, the accusation of the convicted Statsenko G.V. organization "Young Guard" is not proved by the materials of the investigation.

Fadeev also had a chance to be released ahead of time, for whom a large number of relatives, neighbors and acquaintances. The Chief Military Prosecutor's Office was not too lazy to interrogate everyone who had testified against Fadeev ten years earlier. The military prosecutor Gorny even prepared a protest to the military tribunal of the Moscow Military District with a request "to cancel the decision of the Special Meeting of the Ministry of State Security dated March 6, 1948 in relation to Fadeev, to stop the case for lack of evidence of the charge." However, someone's bossy hand on the same document sweepingly deduced blue ink: "I find no grounds for making a protest. Leave Fadeev's complaint without satisfaction."

However, Fadeev was still released ahead of schedule. According to "MK", ​​out of 25 years he served only 10. His criminal record was removed, but he was refused rehabilitation. So formally, he is still considered the main traitor of the Young Guard.

Parcel truck

Meanwhile, the last of the eight Young Guardsmen who survived the war, Vasily Ivanovich Levashov, shortly before his death (he died in 2001), gave an interview to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper (06/30/1999) in which he stated that in fact there were no traitors, and " the organization burned down because of stupidity."

The former underground worker said that after the first reading of Fadeev's book, he had the most contradictory feelings. On the one hand, he was delighted by how subtly the writer captured the moods and feelings of the Young Guard. On the other hand, Levashov was outraged by the free treatment of some facts: the traitor Stakhovich appeared in the novel, but there was no person with such a surname in the organization, so there was a clear allusion to Viktor Tretyakevich, the commissioner of the Young Guard.

“In fact, there were no traitors, the organization burned down because of stupidity,” said Vasily Ivanovich. “A truck with parcels for the Germans arrived in Krasnodon for Christmas, and we decided to capture them. At night we dragged everything into the barn to one of our guys, "and the next morning they sent him in torn bags to the club. On the way, a box of cigarettes fell out. A boy of about twelve was spinning nearby, grabbed it. Tretyakevich gave him cigarettes for his silence. And a day later, the Germans grabbed the boy in the market."

According to Levashov, Tretyakevich was slandered by the police for his steadfastness during interrogations. Vasily Ivanovich's father was sitting in the same cell with the commissioner of the "Young Guard" and saw how he was taken away for interrogation, and dragged back by the legs of the beaten, almost alive. And the names of the underground, according to Levashov, the Nazis could find out from the lists of employees of the club, the director of which was Moshkov, a young guard. The latter compiled these lists for the labor exchange: hundreds of young people were driven to work in Germany, and for club workers they were given "reservations".

Viktor Tretyakevich was rehabilitated only in 1959. Prior to that, his relatives had to live with the stigma of the traitor's relatives. According to Vasily Levashov, Victor's rehabilitation was achieved by his middle brother Vladimir. Viktor Tretyakevich was posthumously awarded, but he was never reinstated in the rank of commissar of the Young Guard.

Levashov, in a conversation with a Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent, also touched upon the fate of another resident of Krasnodon, who was accused of betrayal - Georgy Statsenko:

“Statsenko served 15 years for betraying the Young Guard,” said Levashov. “I got out of prison and wrote a letter to the KGB asking him to remove the blame because he did not betray. And he asked me and Harutyunyants to be called as witnesses. for interrogation at the KGB, and I said that Statsenko had nothing to do with the Young Guard, and therefore could not know anything. The blame was removed from Statsenko."

At the same time, some facts indicate that not everything is so simple in the story of the rehabilitation of Viktor Tretyakevich, as Vasily Levashov told about it. And there are still many pitfalls in this case ...

Bibliographic description:

Nesterova I.A. Young Guard [Electronic resource] // Educational encyclopedia site

In the light modern attempts to remake history, devalue the exploits of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War, it is necessary to preserve the people's memory of the thousands tortured by fascist monsters Soviet citizens. So that no one wants to apologize to the Bundeswehr for the fate of the "unfortunate" Nazis. The Young Guard is an example of courage and patriotism. Everyone should know about their fate.

The emergence of the Young Guard

Officially, during the Great Patriotic War in the USSR, the existence of 3,350 underground Komsomol and youth organizations that carried out anti-fascist activities in the temporarily occupied territories was recognized. Among these organizations is called the "Young Guard".

is a youth underground organization. She acted in the rear of the Nazis on the territory of Donetsk Krasnodon.

It cannot be said that in young guard included only Russians or Ukrainians. It was multinational: Russians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Belarusians, Jews, an Azerbaijani and a Moldavian.

After the Great Patriotic War began, and the city was occupied, scattered groups of teenagers began to carry out active anti-fascist activities in Krasnodon. However, for greater effectiveness of anti-fascist attacks, it was necessary to create a single underground organization with a common controlled center.

Ulyana Gromova

Date of formation Young Guard is an September 30, 1942. The backbone of the organization included Ivan Zemnukhov as chief of staff, Vasily Levashov as commander of the central group, Georgy Arutyunyants and Sergei Tyulenin as ordinary members of the headquarters. Viktor Tretyakevich was elected Commissar of the Young Guard. Later, Uliana Gromova, Lyubov Shevtsova, Oleg Koshevoy and Ivan Turkenich joined the headquarters. Number of Young Guard According to official figures, it ranged from 70 to 100 people. Some local researchers speak of 130 Young Guards.

Activities of the Young Guard

IN last years from new force there were exclamations that the Young Guard was a propaganda legend, that the teenagers had done nothing important, and so on. However, we must not forget that the Young Guards are just teenagers. The youngest of them was 14 years old. They organized very dangerous sorties. Literally on the verge of life and death. They successfully distributed anti-fascist leaflets and information from the Soviet Information Bureau. Ukrainian traitors who worked as policemen for the Nazis often found leaflets of the Young Guards in their pockets.

In list exploits of the Young Guard we can safely call the raising of red flags over the school, hospital and park of the occupied Krasnodon. This happened on the anniversary of the October Revolution. The flags were made from a Nazi banner stolen from a German club.

The Germans tried to send young able-bodied residents of the city to Germany as work force. However, the Young Guard set fire to the building of the labor exchange, thereby preventing the citizens of Krasnodon from being sent into fascist slavery.

In addition to the above-mentioned exploits of the Young Guard, the guys also helped local population foodstuffs, burned the barns of the Nazis and poisoned their bread and water, freed prisoners of war. In addition, they took weapons from warehouses from the Nazis. By the beginning of December 1942, the Young Guards had accumulated 15 machine guns, 80 rifles, 300 grenades, about 15 thousand rounds of ammunition, 10 pistols, 65 kilograms of explosives and several hundred meters of Fickford cord in the warehouse.

Arrest and execution of the Young Guards

On January 1, 1943, Yevgeny Moshkov, Viktor Tretyakevich and Ivan Zemnukhov were arrested. This was followed by a series of arrests of other members of the underground organization. There are two versions according to which the Nazis managed to arrest members of the Young Guard:

1. Betrayal
2. Lack of proper confidentiality.

The version of betrayal was not fully confirmed, although the suspects were shot.

There were so many members of the Young Guard operating in Krasnodon that the city's prison was overcrowded with teenagers. They were brutally tortured. The city jail looked like a slaughterhouse. The blood of the Young Guards is splattered everywhere. In order not to hear loud screams in the prison, a gramophone was turned on at full power.

The arrested young guards were severely beaten, they were cut with knives, their bones were broken and crushed, their eyes were gouged out, but none of them told anything of what the fascists and Ukrainian traitors, who had gone over to the side of the enemy, asked about.

During the arrests and investigations, policemen Solikovsky, Zakharov, as well as Plokhikh and Sevastyanov tried their best. They mutilated Ivan Zemnukhov beyond recognition. Yevgeny Moshkov was doused with water, taken out into the street, then put on the stove, and then again taken for interrogation.

After the most severe torture, the young guards, barely alive, were ordered to be shot. in the area of ​​the old mine. The first group of members of the Young Guard underground was shot on January 15, 1943. The second group of guys was killed in the same place, but already on January 16th. The third group was shot on January 31, 1943. The last four guys, including Oleg Koshevoy, were shot on February 9, 1943 in the town of Rovenky, Krasnodonsky district.

Among the first group of those shot was Viktor Tretyakevich. When they took him and put him on the edge of the pit, he managed to grab the deputy chief of police by the neck. He tried to drag him along with him to a depth of 50 meters. However, he was prevented by other fascists.

Ivan Turkenich, Valeria Borts, Olga and Nina Ivantsov, Radik Yurkin, Georgy Arutyunyants, Mikhail Shishchenko, Anatoly Lopukhov and Vasily Levashov managed to escape. Levashov managed to escape on his way to the execution. For a while he hid with his girlfriend.

On February 14, 1943, the city of Krasnodon was liberated from the Nazis by the troops of the Red Army. On February 17, the bodies of the Young Guards began to be removed from a deep mine.

After the liberation of the city, during the investigation, rumors spread that during interrogation Tretyekevich could not stand it and handed over his comrades. Only in 1959 this version was refuted. Decree of December 13, 1960 of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR rehabilitated Viktor Tretyakevich and awarded him the Order of the Patriotic War, I degree.

The role of the feat of the Young Guard

Feat of the Young Guard had great value for the country, both during the Great Patriotic War and after it. It was the Young Guards who, by their actions, supported the morale of the soldiers and the mood to fight among the population of the occupied territories. Pain and suffering from hunger faded against the background of what the young guards suffered before their death. People remembered their exploits and created their own for the good of the motherland.

Postage stamp of the USSR, 1944: "Glory to the Heroes-Komsomol members of the Young Guard of the city of Krasnodon!".

The history of the Young Guard gained fame thanks to the book by Alexander Fadeev "The Young Guard". Films were made about the Young Guards, they wrote in newspapers. They were set as an example to the rising post-war generation.

Now feat of the Young Guard not forgotten. Museums dedicated to the Young Guard operate throughout Russia, Soviet monuments to the Young Guard are being restored, and lessons dedicated to their feat are held in schools.

Literature

1. "Young Guard" [Electronic resource] // Journal "Historian" - Access mode: https://historian.rf/journal/young-guard/
2. Who are they - "Young Guards"? Scary tale, which should not be forgotten [Electronic resource] // "Outside the city". - Access mode:

"Young Guard" is a Komsomol underground organization with a short but heroic and tragic history. It intertwined feat and betrayal, reality and fiction, truth and lies. It was formed during the Great Patriotic War.

Creation of the "Young Guard"

In July 1942, the Nazis occupied Krasnodon. Despite this, leaflets appear in the city, the bathhouse, which was prepared for the German barracks, lights up. All this could be done by one person. Sergey Tyulenin is a 17-year-old guy. In addition, he gathers young guys to fight enemies. The founding date of the underground organization was September 30, 1942, the day the headquarters and action plan of the underground were created.

The composition of the underground organization

Initially, the core of the organization was Ivan Zemnukhov, Tyulenin Sergey, Levashov Vasily, Georgy Arutyunyants, Viktor Tretyakevich, who was elected Commissioner. A little later, Turkenich Ivan, Oleg Koshevoy, Lyubov Shevtsova, Ulyana Gromova joined the headquarters. This was an international, multi-age (from 14 to 29 years old) organization, united by one goal - to cleanse the hometown of fascist evil spirits. It consisted of about 110 people.

Confrontation of the "brown plague"

The guys printed leaflets, collected weapons and medicines, and destroyed enemy vehicles. On their account, dozens of released prisoners of war. Thanks to them, thousands of people managed to escape hard labor. The Young Guards burned down the labor exchange, where all the names of people who were to go to work in Germany burned down. Their most famous act is the appearance by November 7 of red flags hung on the streets of the city.

Split

In December 1942, disagreements arose in the team. Koshevoy insisted on allocating 15-20 people from the organization for active armed struggle. Under the command of Turkenich, a small partisan detachment was created, called the "Hammer". Oleg Koshevoy was appointed commissar of this detachment. This led to the fact that later Oleg Koshevoy began to be considered the main person of the Young Guard.

Tragedy of Krasnodon

At the beginning of 1943, the Nazis struck at the very heart of the organization, arresting Tretyakevich, Moshkov, Zemnukhov. One of the young guards Pocheptsov, having found out about the fate of the leaders, got scared and informed the police about his comrades. All the arrested guys survived terrible tortures, bullying, beatings. From Pocheptsov, the punishers learned that Viktor Tretyakevich was one of the leaders of the organization. Having spread a rumor in the city that it was he who was the traitor, the enemy hoped to “untie” the tongues of the members of the Young Guard.

As long as the memory is alive, the person is alive

71 Krasnodonts were shot by the punishers, their bodies were thrown into the pit of an abandoned mine No. 5. The rest of those arrested were executed in the Thundering Forest. Members of the headquarters were posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The name of Viktor Tretyakevich was consigned to oblivion due to slander, and only in 1960 was he rehabilitated. However, he was not reinstated in the rank of commissar, and for many people he remained a private in the Young Guard. Krasnodontsy became a symbol of courage, fearlessness and fortitude during the war years.

is the largest youth organization in the country. Regional branches of the "Young Guard" operate in the vast majority of subjects Russian Federation and unite about 170 thousand people.

Organization leaders:

Voronova Tatiana – Chairman of the MGER Coordinating Council from 2005 to 2006, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fifth convocation, from 2010 to 2013 - member of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, since 2013 - Head of the Management Department domestic policy Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. On March 3, 2015, she was appointed head of the internal policy department of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. On October 22, 2016, she was appointed Head of the State Duma Staff.

Turchak Andrey – Coordinator of the youth policy of the United Russia Party from 2005 to 2008, since 2007 - Chairman of the MGER Coordinating Council, since 2007 - Member of the Federation Council from the Pskov region, 2009-2017. – Governor of the Pskov region, October 12, 2017 was appointed Acting Secretary of the General Council of the Party.

Borisov Alexander – from 2005 to 2009 – Head of the Central Headquarters of the MGER, Coordinator of the youth policy of the United Russia Party from 2008 to 2011, Chairman Public Council MGER from 2010 to 2011, since 2009 - a member of the Federation Council from the Pskov region.

Orlova Nadezhda– from 2006 to 2008 – Chairman of the Political Council of the MGER, since 2011 – Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fifth convocation.

Gattarov Ruslan – since 2005, head of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of MGER, Member of the MGER Coordinating Council from 2005 to 2008, MGER Coordinator for the Ural Federal District, Chairman of the MGER Political Council 2008-2010, since 2010 - Member of the Federation Council from Chelyabinsk region, since 2014 - Vice-Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region.

Fadeev Denis – from 2007 to 2011 - Deputy of the Saratov Regional Duma, Member of the MGER Coordinating Council from 2008 to 2010, MGER Coordinator for the Volga Federal District, Chairman of the MGER Coordination Council from 2009-2010, since 2012 - Vice Governor, Chief of Staff of the Governor of the Saratov Region.

Prokopenko Timur – from 2010 to 2012 - Chairman of the MGER Coordinating Council, in 2011 he was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the sixth convocation, since 2012 - Deputy Head of the Internal Policy Department of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

Turov Artem – Head of the Smolensk regional headquarters of MGER from 2006-2008, from 2008 to 2010 - Member of the MGER Coordination Council, Coordinator for MGER CFD, from 2008 to 2009 - Chairman of the MGER Coordination Council, from 2010 to 2012 - Co-Chairman of the MGER Coordination Council , since 2012 - Coordinator for youth policy Party "United Russia", Chairman of the Public Council MGER. In October 2015, a member of the MGER Coordinating Council received a mandate as a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

Arshinova Alena – from 2010 to 2012 - Co-Chairman of the MGER Coordinating Council, since 2012 - Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the sixth and seventh convocations.

Rudnev Maxim – since 2010 - member of the MGER Coordinating Council, since 2012 - Chairman of the MGER Coordination Council, from 2014 to 2016 - head of the Central Election Commission of the United Russia party, since 2016 - deputy head of the Central Election Commission of the United Russia party.

Mazurevsky Konstantin – from 2011 to 2012 - head of the Central Headquarters of the MGER, since 2012 - first deputy head of the Central Election Commission of the United Russia party.

Stenyakina Ekaterina – head of the Rostov regional headquarters of MGER since 2008, since 2010 member of the MGER Coordinating Council, MGER Coordinator for the Southern Federal District, from 2012 to 2014 - Co-Chairman of the MGER Coordination Council, since 2013 - Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region.

Grachev Evgeny – since 2011 - Head of the Moscow City Regional Branch of MGER, since 2012 - Head of the Central Headquarters of MGER, since 2013 - Head of the Department for Work with Public Organizations of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

Kvashin Dmitry – since 2008 - head of the Samara regional headquarters of MGER, since 2010 - member of the MGER Coordinating Council, MGER Coordinator for the Volga Federal District, from 2013 to 2014 - head of the MGER Central Headquarters.

Artemov Vladislav– from 2014 to 2015 - Head of the MGER Central Headquarters and member of the MGER Coordinating Council.

Pospelov Sergey- since 2011 - Head of the Moscow City Regional Branch of MGER, since 2013 - Co-Chairman of the MGER Coordinating Council, since 2014 - Head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, since 07.10.2016 - First Deputy Chief of Staff of the State Duma.

Davydov Denis- since 2012 - Head of the Organizational Department of the Central Headquarters of the MGER, since 2014 - Chairman of the Coordinating Council of the MGER.

Demin Artem– from 2015 to 2016 – Head of the MGER Central Headquarters and member of the MGER Coordinating Council.

Galkin Alexander– from 2014 to 2016 – co-chairman of the MGER Coordinating Council.

Perepelov Sergey– since 2016 – Acting Head of the Central Headquarters of MGER. Since November 2016 - Head of the Central School of MGER.

Brief history of the organization:

2005 year

The history of MGER began in 2005 - on November 15-16, Voronezh hosted the 1st Congress of the Young Guard of United Russia, at which the Coordinating Council, consisting of coordinators for federal districts, was appointed as the governing body of the Organization. Tatyana Voronova, who at that time was the coordinator for the Siberian federal district.

2006

This year, the II Congress of the Young Guard of United Russia was held, following which Andrey Turchak was elected the head of the Organization. The federal volunteer project “I am a volunteer” was presented at the Congress. In addition, a Public Council was created, which brought together representatives of friendly youth organizations and leaders public opinion supporting the goals and projects of the Organization.

On the eve of the upcoming election campaign in 2007, by decision of the leadership of the United Russia Party, MGER receives a 20% quota for youth in party lists. In order to select the best youth representatives for their subsequent nomination as candidates, the Organization is launching the PolitZavod project. In total, in 2006 more than 2,000 people from 24 regions of the Russian Federation took part in the Young Guard program "PolitZavod".

2007

In 2007, Andrei Turchak becomes a member of the Federation Council from the Pskov region. This is the first public office federal level, which is occupied by a representative of the "Young Guard".

MGER takes an active part in the elections to the State Duma in December 2007. As a result of the activities of the PolitZavod project, several dozen young guardsmen became deputies of various levels according to the lists of the Party in the regions.

2008

In June, the III Congress of the "Young Guard" takes place. New composition is elected at the Congress governing bodies. Ruslan Gattarov, who previously coordinated the work of the Ural Federal District, becomes the new leader of the MGER in the status of the head of the MGER Political Council.

During the Congress, several priority programs and projects were identified, in particular: “I am a citizen” (patriotic and social direction) - coordinator Nadezhda Orlova; "Factory of Meanings" - coordinator Roman Romanov; "Youth parliamentarism" - coordinator Alexei Shaposhnikov, as well as "Ecology", "Furious construction team", "My History" and others. The common unifying motto of the "Young Guard" is the call "Youth to Power", which is reflected in the Manifesto of the Organization.

year 2009

In 2009, young guard Andrey Turchak was proposed by the President of the Russian Federation to the post of governor of the Pskov region. In the same year, Alexander Borisov, head of the Central Staff, became a member of the Federation Council from the same region.

In the summer of 2009, the first All-Russian Youth Political Forum "Guards - 2020" is held in the Lipetsk region.

2010

In July 2010, MGER organized the All-Russian Youth Political Forum "Caucasus-2020" in Nalchik.

December 22, 2010 in Moscow under the motto "Evolution" is the IV Congress of the "Young Guard". The Political Council of the Organization is abolished. The role of higher political body returns to the Coordinating Council. Timur Prokopenko is elected as the new leader of the "Young Guard" - the chairman of the Coordinating Council. Artem Turov and Alena Arshinova become co-chairs.

The key projects of the Organization were: “I am a lifeguard”, “Wi-Fi Epidemic”, “I am for fair elections”, “Accessible environment” and others.

2011

In 2011, on the birthday of MGER, the Call of the Young Guard was presented, replacing the 2008 Manifesto. It denotes general principles activities of the Organization: business, audacity, trust, duty.

2011 is an election year. In December, elections to the State Duma are held, in March 2012 - elections of the President of Russia. These events are central to the activities of the "Young Guard" in given period. On April 27, MGER launched the Youth Primaries 2011 and I am a Deputy project aimed at promoting young candidates throughout the country.

According to the results of the elections in December 2011, five young guardsmen go to the State Duma: Timur Prokopenko, chairman of the MGER Coordinating Council, Maria Kozhevnikova and Magomed Selimkhanov, members of the MGER Public Council, and Vladimir Burmatov and Sergey Ten. 10 members of the Organization become deputies of the Legislative Assemblies of the subjects of the Russian Federation. In total, by the end of 2011, deputies different levels more than ten thousand young guards became. Later, in 2012, the list of Young Guard deputies in State Duma added Alena Arshinova.

year 2012

In August 2012, at the site of the Federal Educational Forum MGER "Gvardeysk", the V Congress of the "Young Guard" was held. By the decision of the Congress, Maxim Rudnev becomes the Chairman of the Coordinating Council. Ekaterina Stenyakina, previously coordinator for the Southern Federal District, is elected as co-chair. The composition of the Coordinating Council itself is being substantially updated: the coordinators of seven of the eight federal districts are changing.

New MGER projects are also being approved: "Agents", "Media Guard", "I am a Volunteer", "School of Political Leadership" and others.

In February 2012, the head of the Central Headquarters of the Young Guard, Konstantin Mazurevsky, moved to the post of First Deputy Head of the Central Election Commission of the United Russia Party. Evgeny Grachev became the head of the Central School of MGER, who later went to work in the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

year 2013

In 2013, the Congress of the Young Guard approves the concept of the development of the Organization for the period up to 2018. This is the first forward-looking strategic document that sets out the goals and directions of the Organization beyond the two-year period of the governing bodies of the Organization. At the same time, Dmitry Kvashin became the head of the Central Headquarters. By decision of the MGER Coordinating Council in November 2013, Sergey Pospelov, head of the Moscow regional branch of the Young Guard, was elected co-chairman of the MGER CC.

In November 2013, an educational forum for the regional branches of MGER was held in the Moscow region, at which a presentation of the new project "Heroes of Our Time" took place.

year 2014

In 2014, Sergei Pospelov, co-chairman of the Young Guard Coordinating Council, became the head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.

In July of the same year, Maxim Rudnev went to work at the Central Election Commission of the United Russia Party. At the moment he is the deputy head of the CEC of the Party. Denis Davydov becomes Chairman of the Young Guard Coordinating Council.

On December 10, 2014, the 7th MGER Congress was held in Moscow, at which a new composition of the Organization's governing bodies was elected. Denis Davydov was elected Chairman of the CC, Alexander Galkin became Co-Chairman of the CC.

Since April 2014, young deputies have been systematically promoting legislation in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation that prohibits the sale of alcoholic energy drinks. Currently, the ban is already in effect in 56 Russian regions, and in 19 other regions, relevant bills are being prepared for adoption.

2015

On the eve of the 70th anniversary Great Victory"Young Guard" in the framework of the federal project MGER "Heroes of Our Time" initiated a collection of memories of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, which were included in the book " Diary of a veteran. The untold history of the war».

Within the framework of the federal project "School of the municipal deputy" young candidates who participated in the election campaign were provided with advisory assistance. Organized for the participants educational lectures from well-known political technologists for a more in-depth study of the basics of conducting an election campaign, centralized legal and technological support was provided during the election campaign. In total, about four thousand young candidates from all over the country took part in the project.

According to the results single voting day On September 13, 2015, two members of the Young Guard became deputies of the legislative assemblies of the Russian regions, deputies representative bodies the authorities of the administrative centers of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation - 24 people, and deputies municipalities- 1302 people.

In October 2015, on the basis of the decision of the General Council of United Russia, the CEC of the Russian Federation transferred the vacant mandate of a State Duma deputy to Artem Turov, a member of the Coordinating Council of the Young Guard.

At the end of 2015, the MGER Coordinating Council decided to reform the institution of the federal districts "Young Guard" - they were transformed into territorial groups.