The Komsomol direction (Russian: комсомольская путёвка, romanized: komsomolskaya putyovka) or Komsomol travel ticket was a mobilization document of in the Soviet Union issued by a Komsomol committee to a Komsomol member, which directed the member to temporary or permanent shock construction projects or military service. Usually the Komsomol direction was associated with relocation to new, poorly settled remote locations: new construction sites ("Komsomol construction sites", комсомольская стройка[1]), army service, etc.[2]
During the 10th five-year plan more than 500,000 young volunteers were assigned to shock construction projects with Komsomol travel tickets.[3] Komsomol organizations formed and directed 100 All-Union squads consisting of 80,000 people.[3]
At the construction sites travel tickets recipients earned labor days (трудодни, trudodni), which were assigned different values that depended on the type of work was performed.[citation needed]
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
edit- Комсомольская путёвка, lyrics: Dolmatovsky, music: Pakhmutova[4]
- Комсомольская путёвка (1959), lyrics: Tsezar Solodar, music: Serafim Tulikov[5][6]
Gallery
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See also
edit- Shock construction projects
- Road to Life (1931 film) – "Putyovka" into Life
References
edit- ^ "Лукашенко: По комсомольской путевке - на комсомольскую стройку" [Lukashenka: On a Komsomol ticket - to a Komsomol construction site]. telegraf.com.ua. 30 October 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ Lapenkov, A. (25 March 2014). "Позвала комсомольская путёвка "Новый путь" – газета Поспелихинского района" [The Komsomol ticket called "New Way"]. Novyi Put. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015 – via Pospelikhinsky district newspaper.
- ^ a b Glebov, Vladimir (January 1982). "Комсомольская путевка: цель – преобразование, адрес – районы освоения" [Komsomol travel ticket: goal - transformation, location - areas of development]. "Smena" magazine. Archived from the original on July 4, 2015 – via web.archive.org.
- ^ "Текст песни ВИА Надежда - Комсомольская путевка, слова песни ВИА Надежда - Комсомольская путевка, перевод песни, аккорды" [Lyrics of the song VIA Nadezhda - Komsomolskaya voucher, lyrics VIA Nadezhda - Komsomolskaya voucher, translation of the song, chords]. www.pesni.net. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ "SovMusic.ru - Комсомольская путевка" [Komsomlskaya putyovka]. www.sovmusic.ru. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ Komsomol Travel Ticket. Sovmusic.
External links
edit- Denis Lapin. Komsomlskaya putyovka (Комсомольская путевка). Infodon.org. 30 October 2012.
- Viktor Trushkov. Komsomlskaya putyovka (Комсомольская путевка). Pravda at the KPRF. 2018
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