Pioneers-heroes

USSR post stamp.The pioneers-heroes Lenya Golikov and Valya Kotik

Pioneer heroes - soviet pioneers who made feats in the years of the establishment of Soviet power and the Great Patriotic War. The images of pioneer heroes were actively used in the Soviet Union as examples of high morals. The official list of pioneer heroes was issued in 1954 with the compilation of the Book of Honor of the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization; The books of honor of local pioneer organizations joined it.

Pioneer heroes before the Second World War

Memorial to the pioneers heroes of the Great Patriotic War near Tolyatti, the former pioneer camp "Scarlet Sails"(From right to left: Borya Tsarikov, Marat Kazey, Zinaida Portnova, Lyonya Golikov, Valya Kotik and Volodya Dubinin).

Memorial to Shura Kober and Vitya Khomenko in Mykolayiv

The first mention about pioneers-heroes appears in 1920.