Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (russian: Ленинский коммунистический союз молодежи Карело-Финской ССР, LKSM KFSSR) was the republican branch of the All Union Leninist Communist Youth League (''Komsomol'') in the

Karelo-Finnish SSR The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (Karelo-Finnish SSR; fi, ; rus, Каре́ло-Фи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, r=Karelo-Finskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Resp ...

1940-1956. The first congress of LKSM KFSSR was held June 1-June 3, 1940. The conference elected a

Central Committee Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...

, with Yuri Andropov as its First Secretary. During the Second World War, the Central Committee of the LKSM KFSSR organized

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resistance against the occupying forces, both in urban and rural areas.The Republic of Karelia State Archive of Modern Political History. Guide-Book
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Andropov continued in the post until 1944.
/ref> In total seven congresses of LKSM KFSSR were held. LKSM KFSSR published the newspaper Юные ленинцы (''Young Lenin's Follower'') and Молодой большевик (''Young Bolshevik'').

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Komsomol Politics of the Republic of Karelia 1940 establishments in the Soviet Union 1956 disestablishments in the Soviet Union {{communist-youth-org-stub