When were the Octobers. Extracurricular event "Who are the October students?"

Oktyabryata - children's organization in the Soviet Union

The President of the Russian Federation signed a decree on the creation of the All-Russian public-state children's and youth organization "Russian Schoolchildren's Movement". According to Matvienko, the document is timely, long-awaited and in demand. "The decree directs us to develop and implement new forms and methods of ideological, moral, spiritual development personality, education of convinced patriots of Russia, young people who are ready to actively work for its benefit,” the senator noted. She called for more active use of previous experience gained in the Soviet Union when creating youth organizations, but taking into account the realities of our time.
Oktyabryat - in the Soviet Union, students aged 7-9 years old, united in groups at the Pioneer Druzhine school . The groups were led counselors from among the pioneers or Komsomol members schools. In these groups, children prepared to enter theAll-Union Pioneer Organization named after V.I. Lenin .
Term October arose in 1923-24, when inMoscowThe first groups of children began to appear, in which who accepted guys who were the same age as the Great October Socialist Revolution.
Groups of Octobrists were created in the first grades of schools and operated until the Octobrists joined the Pioneers and the formation of Pioneer detachments. Upon joining the ranks of the Octobrists, children were given a badge - a five-pointed ruby ​​star with a portrait of Lenin as a child. The symbol of the group was the red October flag. The October group consisted of several units called “stars”, each of which usually included 5 children - a symbol of a five-pointed star. As a rule, in the “star”, each October boy occupied one of the positions - commander, florist, orderly, librarian or athlete.
The Komsomol Central Committee approved a set of “rules” for the Octobrists:

• Octobers are future pioneers.
• October students are diligent guys, they love school and respect their elders.
• Only those who love work are called Octobers.
• Octobers are truthful and courageous, dexterous and skillful.
• The Octobers are friendly guys, they read and draw, play and sing, and live happily.

The activities of the October students took place mainly in the form of games and were organized by teachers and counselors. Every year, from April 16 to April 22, the All-Union October Week was held. At school for October students, “Lenin readings” could be organized, when on the 22nd of each month an appointed high school student came to class and read stories about V.I. Lenin (his birthday was April 22, 1870). All-Union publications were published for the Octobrists (“ Funny pictures" and "Murzilka") and republican magazines. For example, in the Moldavian SSR the magazine “Stelutsa” (“Star”) was published in Moldavian and Russian. Pioneer newspapers also published materials intended for the Octobrists. Every year for October children the publishing house “Malysh” published the table calendar “Zvezdochka”. Methodological materials about work with the October students were regularly published in the magazines “Counselor”, “Elementary School”, “Education of Schoolchildren” and other publications.
Associations of junior schoolchildren under pioneer and other children's organizations, similar to the Octoberists, operate in many countries.
October Rules:
There are exactly five of our rules.
We will carry them out

We are active guys
Because it's October.
October, don’t forget -
You are on your way to becoming a pioneer!

We are brave guys
Because it's October.
Like the heroes of the native country,
We want to build our own life.

We are diligent guys
Because it's October.
Only those who love work
They call them October people.

We are truthful guys
Because it's October.
Never, nowhere, in anything
We won't let our friends down.

We are funny guys
Because it's October.
Our songs, dances, laughter
We divide equally among everyone.
In the USSR, serious attention was paid to the education of youth; almost all children were involved in active activities. We studied the charter, took the October oath, and then the pioneer oath. And from an early age they distinguished good from bad deeds. Had serious significance and upbringing and environmental influences. It’s no coincidence that they said that whoever you hang out with, that’s how you’ll gain. The Octobrists lived according to their own laws of goodness, friendship, love for the Motherland.
From an early age they explained to us what is good and what is bad, what an October boy should do, how he should behave, how to study, how he would be accepted as a pioneer. It had its own attributes, its own code, which talked about what an October boy should do, how he should wear an October star, how exemplary he should be, how he should help his elders, how to love his Motherland.
And the march of the Octobrists became the poems of O. Vysotskaya “Octobers”, which listed all the same rules that grew out of the laws and customs of the pioneers:
We are funny guys
We are October guys.
It’s not for nothing that they called us that
In honor of the victory of October.
We are all accustomed to order.
We do exercises in the morning
And we want the mark "five"
In lessons you will receive...
Octobers were united into stars. I remember my star. We skied together, published a wall newspaper, designed an album about Arkady Gaidar, learned songs, collected waste paper...
I think it’s wonderful when children have their own organization, when a person has a great idea. After all, what did the October students learn and what oath did they take? Make friends, study well, love the country, parents, respect the elderly, help the weak. And even then we understood: an asterisk is only the first step into pioneering.
Why not now create a similar organization in primary school?

List of materials used.

In my mature retirement years, the scribbler is drawn to memoirs. And it turned out that peers are interested in reading this, because, of course, they remember their childhood and youth. So I’m posting it for everyone. There is only text here, within the site, and for friends everything is decorated with photographs of those times.

1. October.
Reference:
Octobers - in the Soviet Union, students aged 7-9 years old, united in groups under the school's pioneer squad. The groups were led by counselors from among the school's pioneers or Komsomol members. In these groups, children prepared to join the All-Union Pioneer Organization named after V.I. Lenin.
The term "October" arose in 1923-24, when the first groups of children began to appear in Moscow, into which children the same age as the Great October Socialist Revolution were accepted.
Groups of Octobrists were created in the first grades of schools and operated until the Octobrists joined the Pioneers and the formation of Pioneer detachments. When joining the ranks of the Octobrists, children were given a badge - a five-pointed ruby ​​star with a portrait of Lenin as a child. The symbol of the group was the red October flag. The October group consisted of several units called “stars”, each of which usually included 5 children - a symbol of a five-pointed star. As a rule, in the “star”, each October child occupied one of the positions - commander, florist, orderly, librarian or athlete.
The Komsomol Central Committee approved a set of “rules” for the Octobrists:
Octobers are future pioneers.
October students are diligent guys, they love school and respect their elders.
Only those who love work are called Octobers.
Octobers are truthful and courageous, dexterous and skillful.
The Octobers are friendly guys, they read and draw, play and sing, and live happily.
The activities of the October students took place mainly in the form of games and were organized by teachers and counselors. Every year on April 16-22, the All-Union October Week was held. At school for October students, “Lenin readings” could be organized, when on the 22nd of each month an appointed high school student came to class and read stories about V.I. Lenin (his birthday was April 22, 1870). All-Union (“Funny Pictures” and “Murzilka”) and republican magazines were published for October students
My social and collective life in general began with school; it was 1963, school number 15 in the village of Bykovo near Moscow. First “B” class, in which we were accepted in October.
The sign of belonging was a badge on the uniform - a red star, and in the middle there was a young Lenin in a circle. There were both metal and plastic. I think I had both, one broke and they bought me another one.
I still have a metal one in my old collection, but I don’t remember exactly if it’s mine.
I don’t remember how I took it either. In class, probably. Or maybe in the school assembly hall.
The rules - yes, very good. They probably memorized it in chorus when they were preparing.
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As for the “choir,” I remembered the history of those times. Almost like Dragunsky, remember Deniska’s stories” (I loved them very much) - “Vasya’s dad is strong in mathematics..”, when Mishka sang one verse all the time, and then Deniska did the same.... And I was a participant in a similar story.
A story about a border guard
Second class. A singing lesson attended by a committee. Two aunts sat on the back desk. The teacher lined up half the class in two rows with the best singers, not all of them, at the board. At that time we were learning a patriotic song about a border guard with the words “The dense forest is covered with snow. There is a border guard at the post”... I don’t remember further, because during this important lesson I didn’t have to sing any further.

It’s a miracle, of course, the Internet of our days stores this song, even performed by a children’s choir. I listened with pleasure.
And here are the words

There is a border guard at the post,
The night is dark and there is silence all around,
Our Soviet country is sleeping.
There is a ravine near the border,
Maybe there is an enemy hiding in the thicket.
But no matter what enemies you meet,
The border guard is ready to fight back!
So that the people will always be calm,
Our army protects us.
The dense forest is covered with snow,
There is a border guard at the post...

And the children from the orphanage, who studied with us and were masters of all sorts of mischief, more about them later, altered or brought from the depths of their orphanage other words, where instead of the border guard there was “a devil with a club” (but such a text was not found on the Internet). Perhaps we sang this during recess... But in the presence of the commission, frightened and excited children, to the accompaniment of the piano, sang this devil in the second line:
The dense forest is covered with snow,
There's a devil with a club on duty

Of course, the teacher stopped playing, there was noise in the class, she, sternly, “First.” Yes, the same thing.

At first I sat at my desk in fear, and then I ended up in the second choir, because the first choir was returned to its place and other children were called.
It was dark outside, like that border guard’s, because we were studying on the second shift. In the bright classroom, my already finished and disgraced classmates sat, wide-eyed at us. Two stern and dissatisfied aunts were clearly visible in the back row.
And we started singing... Maybe some people sang correctly, but I, and I was far from alone, sang about the devil with the club.
I think we started another song afterwards. Because this one never worked out.
I don’t remember any execution; they probably just scolded me.
I was even later enrolled in the school choir. I was proud, because I loved to sing and still love it. We went to perform somewhere and sang correctly and well. Of the childhood songs, I remember most of all my favorite, heroic, sending my fantasies straight to the world of the Civil War, where I was this commander with a bandaged head.

Music: Matvey Blanter
Words: Mikhail Golodny (Epstein)

A detachment walked along the shore,
Walked from afar
Walked under the red banner
Regimental commander.

The head is tied,
Blood on my sleeve
A bloody trail is spreading
On damp grass.

"Boys, whose will you be,
Who is leading you into battle?
Who is under the red banner
Is the wounded coming?"

"We are sons of farm laborers,
We are for a new world
Shchors marches under the banner -
Red commander.

In hunger and cold
His life has passed
But it was not for nothing that it was spilled
There was his blood.

Thrown back beyond the cordon
Fierce enemy
Tempered from a young age
Honor is dear to us."

The cavalry rushes dashingly,
The sound of hooves is heard,
Shchors red banner
There's noise in the wind

Now you can read that Shchors is not such a glorious commander, and his death is not the same, and in general ..
And then - yes, I want to be a Hero. Shchors and Chapaev, Gagarin and intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov. Well, at worst - just a partisan (I, living among the trees, for some reason really liked playing partisan).
For us, October people, the all-Union magazine Murzilka was published. My parents subscribed, and Murzilka was read, and then stored in the sofa, along with the adult humor magazine "Crocodile", the pack was tied with twine for a year, lay there for a decade, moved to a new apartment... But then they threw it away. But now these Murzilkas are again being published in the form of large and expensive books, all the magazines are there by year, and my colleague, a generation younger, is buying them for her preschooler son.
Now, of course, it’s easy to find out the story of the origins of this little yellow hero wearing a beret that looks like an acorn’s cap. It has a long history, as it should be, pre-revolutionary and foreign in origin. And for us - here it is:
The next time Murzilka was remembered was in 1924, when a new children's magazine was created under the Rabochaya Gazeta. One of the founders remembered this name and it was accepted almost unanimously. But don’t put a brownie on the cover! Therefore, Murzilka became a red mongrel puppy who accompanied his owner, the boy Petka, everywhere. His friends also changed - now they were pioneers, Octobrists, as well as their parents. However, the puppy did not exist for long - he soon disappeared, and Petka subsequently disappeared from the pages of the magazine.
It is traditionally believed that a certain fluffy yellow creature was born into the world by the artist Aminadav Kanevsky at the request of the editors in 1937. However, back in the 50s, Murzilka was a small man wearing an acorn hat on his head instead of a beret. He appeared like this in several cartoons, the last of which, “Murzilka on Sputnik,” was created in 1960. It was this beret that later became an indispensable attribute of Murzilka, when it turned yellow and overgrown.
Soon other heroes began to appear in this magazine - the evil sorceress Yabeda-Koryabeda, the talking cat Shunka, Soroka-Balabolka, Sportlendik and Ladybug. All these characters became the hosts of the main sections of the magazine - funny and entertaining stories, curiosity questions, a sports page, stories about nature.
The best children's writers were published on the pages of Murzilka: Samuil Marshak, Korney Chukovsky, Sergei Mikhalkov, Boris Zakhoder, Agnia Barto. “Murzilka” instilled in the little ones a love of learning with the help of bright pictures, interesting plots and playful rhymes.
In 1977 - 1983. The magazine published “A detective-mysterious story about Yabeda-Koryabeda and her 12 agents” (author and artist A. Semenov) and its continuations. Often the magazine took on topics that were far from children's. For kids who had only recently learned to read, “Murzilka” talked about the conquest of space, the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station, the 1980 Olympics, and even explained the ideology of the party - “To the Octobrists about Communists.”
Counselor.
The October students were assigned a counselor at school, who sometimes came into the classroom during recess, sometimes after school with the teacher and organized something. We had a seventh grade boy who seemed quite grown up. His sister studied with us. I remember that one day in the spring, for some reason, he jumped out of a second-floor window into the backyard of the school and broke his leg. We were worried because he was not at school for a long time. I don’t remember any more than others.
A story about orphans.
The orphanage was not far from the school, and several children came to first grade. I remember two boys - Seryozha Dozorov and Seryozha Dolgopolov. They weren’t any particular hooligans; on the contrary, they could maintain discipline, and the teacher, leaving the class, I remember, put one of Seryozha in his place and told everyone to sit quietly. The boy told us different things, mostly horror stories, unheard of not only by me, but also by many children at home, from the series “a coffin was driving through the city on wheels,” or in “a black, black forest...”. Remember:
In the black-black forest
There is a black-black house.
In this black, black house
There is a black, black room.
On a black-black table
There is a black, black coffin there,
In this black, black coffin
lies black-black skeleton.
The skeleton shouts:
GIVE MY HEART!
And everyone sat quietly, with their hands folded in front of them, and, frozen, listened... And they didn’t even scream out of fear. They were probably afraid of both the teacher and Seryozha.
But in the third grade, one of the children from the orphanage had a birthday, and they drank a bottle of cologne outside the school.
That, in fact, is all about them. By the way, the orphanage is still there. He has been there since 1943, and his students still study at that school.
The first teachers.
There is little about them, because all this is a background, a picture of the environment in which we grew up socially.
In the first grade we had a young teacher, anonymous in my memory, who had been practicing for almost the first year. The children quickly realized her lack of experience, spoiled her and made noise.
Sasha Chekin swallowed a penny during class. I cried - “I swallowed a pretty penny.” The teacher was scared, she also almost cried, and almost ran him to the medical room. We returned quickly. They said it’s okay, she’ll come out on her own.
This is perhaps the most vivid memory of first grade. The question “did she come out” was monitored by the class.
Came out.
Well, perhaps I also remember rubbing office glue between my fingers during labor lessons and sticking the pellets into my nose. The class was startled by a juicy, loud sneeze.
We were taught to read using an alphabet book. I personally seemed to be reading individual words syllable by syllable by first grade, and so were many children. Most people are reading this now, probably by first grade. My eldest daughter was already reading books at the age of four. True, the youngest had difficulty reading syllables by the age of six (the date of departure to the “zero” preparatory class)
For some reason, I remember the reading lesson in the spring of first grade, the text about combine operators and plowing the land, and the feeling of lightness when reading. It was probably more difficult before.
And from the second grade, everyone was enrolled in the school library, and books were sent, for example, one of the favorites, “About the Brave and Skillful” - about military exploits and difficulties.

In the second grade we were given the highly experienced, strict, but fair Anna Georgievna. For three years of elementary school, she deftly led our class along the path of knowledge and political consciousness.
I loved her. Apparently she did me too, because she was strict and demanding, for my benefit. I remember it was the second shift, it was dark, we were rewriting the dictation, or more accurately realizing the mistakes. We write incorrectly written words in lines. “Everyone will write two lines, and you will write four, because you study well, it’s doubly embarrassing to make such mistakes.”
After moving to another school, my classmates and I visited her at school several times, even went home, she gave us tea, asked how we were doing, and we really liked it.

A story about an athlete
We also had a memorable physical education teacher, Nikolai Andreevich, a young, curly-haired man, wearing a blue tracksuit, as was the case back then, with a whistle around his neck. I won’t describe physical education itself, that’s not what this is about, but the stories he sometimes told in class were no less scary than the one about the black coffin. Why and why he told them, I cannot say. Probably, this was also how he maintained discipline. I remember we were sitting in the hall on benches, the gym was an extension to the school, everything was as it should be, large windows and benches on the sides. It's raining. I don’t remember why we are sitting. But a sportsman walks past us and talks about how he worked as a diver. A favorite topic, but in a particularly memorable story, he and a friend were sent to look for a girl who had drowned in the river.
“Now I’m walking along the bottom of a muddy river, my feet are stuck in the silt, there are algae all around, it’s getting dark - there’s a bridge above me, I wander closer to the shore and see something white among the sedges... I approach - and it’s a drowned woman, swollen, her hair is fluttering with the current ..." Well, that sort of thing.
We were scared, and I remember it like it was yesterday.
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I am a rather quiet girl, timid, who came out of the forest. The school was four kilometers from the house, two of them - along the streets of the village, along the highway, or alleys, past private houses, and along the path of a swampy meadow, if you want to quickly... And two kilometers, already to the house - so, all over natural. Along a field, along a one-way street with a dozen private houses behind fences, and on the other side - bushes, a swamp, a small forest, then pine meadows and the end. The road abuts the railway embankment. And at this end, about a hundred meters from the rails, are our houses. The windows of the room in my quarter of the house looked out onto a clearing and a forest. The kitchen windows look out onto the garden and sheds. And all the time you can hear - knock-knock, knock-knock - trains and electric trains. I lived with this until I was seven, we didn’t have any kindergartens, my parents worked late in the winter, with only one day off. And from spring to autumn they were on geodetic expeditions. Granny doing housework. I play outdoors or in the room. There are only four girlfriends, well, a few older guys, we didn’t overlap with them much.
And then there's school. Lots of children and adults. The rules of conduct are strict. The directors were afraid. Not everyone was afraid to indulge too, of course, but I certainly was. And in the October unit I was only responsible for watering the flowers on the windowsill, and in the first pioneer detachment I did not stand out, did not aspire higher, and did not dream of any social career.
A story about a drawing club.
In the third grade, I, already accustomed to school, emboldened, having studied all the ways of the road, began to go to the nearby Pioneer House, to a drawing club. I liked to draw, and the teacher was a quiet, kind elderly man, Nikolai Alexandrovich, I think. Only girls went to paint, and he loved, walking between the easels, stroking our heads and backs. Sometimes he said: “How I love you all. I would invite you to my home and bathe me in the bath..."
Strange, you say? And we were simple children, we didn’t understand anything, and he didn’t take any further action.
But this story had a continuation. Having moved to live and study in a neighboring village, already in the seventh grade, I met him at the local market. He was delighted, said that he was now working in our home of pioneers, and invited me to join the circle again. And I went. I went there for almost two years, enjoyed painting even in oils, and never heard any obscenities from him. But, being already in the pioneer position, and visiting this House of Pioneers on all sorts of business, I heard that he once worked at a school and was fired for molesting little girls.
Meanwhile, the time has come to join the pioneers
2.Pioneers
Reference:
The All-Union Pioneer Organization united republican, regional, regional, district, city, and district pioneer organizations in the USSR. Formally, the Regulations on the All-Union Pioneer Organization stated that the basis of the organization is the squad, which is created in schools, orphanages and boarding schools with at least 3 pioneers. In squads numbering more than 20 pioneers, pioneer detachments are created, uniting at least 3 pioneers. In orphanages and pioneer camps, groups of different ages could be created. A detachment consisting of 15 or more pioneers is divided into units. In fact, as indicated, the pioneer units (divided in turn into units led by the unit members) united students of the same class, and the squads united students of the same school.
Overall the structure looked like this:
A link consists of 5-10 pioneers, the leader is a link pioneer.
Detachment - 30-40 pioneers, usually a class secondary school, chairman of the detachment's council and its flag - a pioneer elected by the detachment.
The squad is a pioneer organization of the school, 300-400 pioneers, the chairman of the squad council is a pioneer leader or a young Komsomol teacher, and his flag leader is a pioneer elected by the squad.
The district pioneer organization - all detachments and squads of educational institutions of the district, is headed by the chairman of the council of the district pioneer organization - the head of the department of the district committee or the third secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol.
The regional pioneer organization - all detachments and squads, regional organizations of the region, is headed by the chairman of the council of the regional pioneer organization - the head of the department of the regional committee or the third secretary of the regional committee of the Komsomol.
All-Union Pioneer Organization named after V.I. Lenin - united all pioneer organizations of the USSR, the organization was headed by the Central Council, headed by the Secretary of the Central Committee
Pioneer events
Palace of Pioneers. Existed in every city, after the dissolution of 1991, they were repurposed into Houses of Children's and Youth Creativity
Since the pioneer movement was formed by people from scouting, according to the original idea, pioneer life should have resembled scout life, with lectures around the fire, learning songs, games, etc. However, as the pioneer movement became formalized and merged with the school, pioneer life also acquired a formal character life, often reduced to a set of events “for show”. These were mainly shows (particularly popular were “formation and song reviews” with drill), concerts, sports competitions, and, more rarely, hikes. The paramilitary children's game “Zarnitsa” gained great popularity.
In general, pioneer practice boiled down to the following:
Waste paper collection
Scrap metal collection
Formation review and songs
Help for pensioners (Timurov movement)
Military sports "Zarnitsa"
All-Union competition of street football teams "Leather Ball"
All-Union competition of yard ice hockey teams “Golden Puck”
Team ball game Pioneerball (simplified version of volleyball)
Team ball game "Sniper" (similar to the game "Dodgeball")
Young Assistant Inspectors traffic("YuID" movement)
Youth volunteer fire brigades (YUDPD movement)
"Blue Patrol" (protection of water resources) and "Green Patrol" (protection of forests)
Young naturalists
Classes in sports clubs and sections
Procedure for admission to the pioneer organization
The pioneer organization accepted schoolchildren aged 9 to 14 years. Formally, admission was carried out on a voluntary basis. Admission was carried out individually, by open voting at a meeting of the pioneer detachment or squad (if it was not divided into detachments), operating in a secondary school and boarding school. First of all, excellent students and activists became pioneers, then other children. Formally, admission was carried out on a voluntary basis, but in the 1950-1980s, virtually all schoolchildren upon reaching the appropriate age were accepted as pioneers. Rarely were they not accepted as pioneers, usually only inveterate hooligans. There were refusals for religious reasons. Those who joined the pioneer organization at the pioneer line made a solemn promise to be a pioneer of the Soviet Union. A communist, Komsomol member or senior pioneer presented him with a red pioneer tie and a pioneer badge. As a rule, pioneers were accepted into a solemn atmosphere during communist holidays in memorable historical and revolutionary places, for example on April 22 near the monument to V.I. Lenin. Excellent and good students were accepted on the November holidays[, and everyone else on April 22.
Pioneer's Solemn Promise
“I, (last name, first name), joining the ranks of the All-Union Pioneer Organization named after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, in the face of my comrades, solemnly promise: to passionately love and take care of my Motherland, to live as the great Lenin bequeathed, as the Communist Party teaches, as required by the Laws of Pioneers Soviet Union."[Note. Until 1986 it was: “...to passionately love your Motherland, to live, study and fight, as the great Lenin bequeathed, as the Communist Party teaches, to always fulfill the laws of the pioneers of the Soviet Union.”
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The oath is pronounced once, upon entry. And I’ll remember it for the rest of my life.

We were received, like many Moscow and Moscow region children, at the V.I. Lenin Museum. We arrived by train, with teachers, parents and counselors, and lined up in one of the halls. Maybe they swore in unison, I don’t really remember, and they tied a red tie on us. Maybe they attached an icon, I don’t remember.
For some reason, there are no photos, although some of my peers, already adults, when going to school graduation dates, I saw such photos - both in the museum and on Red Square.

Then there was a tour of the museum, and then we were taken to the Mausoleum to look at grandfather Lenin. Going down the steps in the twilight, I tripped, almost fell, made a little noise, but the soldier standing next to me didn’t bat an ear or blink an eye.
I was inflamed with devotion to grandfather Lenin for many years. Then, as the political heat cooled, there was an inexplicable pity for the lying restless body. It never came to the point of curses and hatred. I visited the mausoleum several more times in those ancient times, taking peripheral relatives and acquaintances who visited there. And several times I saw vivid dreams about Lenin “coming to life” there, who either moved his hand or even showed his face.
We were received in the spring, apparently for the leader’s birthday; I returned home from school with my classmates and newly minted pioneers, unbuttoning my coat halfway so that the red tie was visible. True, it seems to me that we didn’t meet anyone at this halfway point.
But now at home, my grandmother, an elderly, illiterate and never-in-any-thing woman, had a phrase for my reassurance in case of various life disturbances: “Shame on you, you’re a pioneer” (later on, only the names of social levels changed in the phrase, the goal was the same - to shame).
We developed pioneering activity not only at school, but also in the courtyard of our residence, a wonderful green large courtyard surrounded by wooden houses.
I came up with a squad for good deeds - “Red Carnation Squad” - OKG. I came up with it at night, and in the morning I went out into the yard and announced to the whole small company of girls that now we will have our own squad, like Timur and his team, according to Gaidar’s book. And we took turns choosing a commander and coming up with good deeds. A headquarters was set up in the basement of one of the largest houses. They got there through a narrow hole at ground level, and since it was completely dark there, they built a homemade wick from stolen kerosene in a jar and a rag dipped into it. By the way, I climbed someone else’s terrace to get kerosene. They drew and somehow hung a map of the surrounding streets on the foundation bricks, and once a day they climbed into the headquarters on all fours to collect and develop plans. True, the youngest friend, crawling out of there, was noticed by the adults, and when asked why we were crawling there in the dark, she said that a kerosene wick was burning there. The detachment was cursed and expelled.
We met parents coming from the train after work and helped them carry their bags. In a large public garage, we obtained metal sticks with hooks at the end, so similar to hoes, and under the cover of evening we heaped potatoes for the neighbor’s lonely grandmother, Krakhina (that’s what we called her). True, the grandmother swore in the morning. Maybe something was done wrong, or at the wrong time, but a good deed was done.
What about our concerts? Diligent Soviet children learned patriotic songs and poems, danced the sailor dance “Yablochko”, staged scenes from “Deniska’s Stories” - “Did you steal the plan of a secret airfield? No, I didn’t steal the plan...”
I spent a long time learning the song “The warmth has gone from the fields, and a flock of cranes...” while listening to the record. - a very sad song about “...and the Motherland is dearer,” and while I was teaching, I cried with tenderness and love for the Motherland.
On the only day off for our adults, we gathered everyone in the clearing.
The adults resisted, especially those who were not parents. Everyone’s work was piling up, they didn’t really want to go, we cried, our parents persuaded the adults, and, finally, the female part of the courtyard population, with their chairs and stools, sat down in the clearing.
The concert began. We performed in turns, from behind an old bedspread and curtain made from rope and begged... The most interesting activity was both the preparation and the concert itself. Everyone was happy afterwards.

At the new school 1968-1971

And then that same move to a new place of residence happened, which radically changed my social life.
The three of us came to the fifth grade with the girls with whom we grew up and studied together before. And the class has basically studied together for four years. At the meeting they began to elect the chairman of the detachment council. No one was eager, and then my friend (I still don’t know why she was so impatient) stood up and said, “I propose to Sveta, she’s a good student and..”, well, she probably said something else as she conscientiously and actively participated in pioneer life (apparently I watered the flowers on time). The class voted unanimously with relief, and my new life began. A timid, disciplined, reliable and quite politicized girl, who believes in all the values ​​and ideals offered to us, became a diligent and then active chairman of the council of her squad.
Naturally, I joined the council of the squad, meetings began in the pioneer room, various affairs and events began. We outlined plans, worked on losers and self-indulgents both within the detachment and at the council of the squad.
A small room on the second floor of the school. Three tables in the letter T, in the corners near the window, a Pioneer banner, a bugle, a drum. And in the corner by the door there was also a teacher’s desk.
There was enough to do, life was in full swing.

Well, of course, one of the most popular and interesting activities is collecting scrap metal and waste paper. The school was surrounded on three sides by a concrete fence, on one long side wall (behind the school there was also a garden), at regular intervals the class numbers were written in chalk - 5A, 5B... Scrap metal was piled under them, collected throughout the village. It was great to disperse in different directions, in groups, with comrades, and find somewhere an armored mesh from a bed, pieces of pipes, old pots. You never know what was lying around in the bushes and trash heaps. Then a car arrived, these heaps were somehow weighed and the best squad was determined.
Waste paper was accumulated at home, collected from neighbors, tied with twine and also dragged to school.

Regular formation parades and songs were also a massive event. At the beginning there is a general line-up, carrying out the banner of the pioneer squad, with a bugler and drummer. Each troop marched, singing something patriotic, around the school hall, and then the best one was determined.

Constant publication of wall newspapers for various dates - Teacher's Day, New Year, February 23 and March 8.
I loved publishing wall newspapers. On New Year“HAPPY NEW YEAR” was invariably written in large letters, the inscription was smeared with stationery glue, and sprinkled with old New Year’s toys stuffed into small pieces. In the lower right corner is the class number.
Ever since elementary school, I have been drawing a profile of Lenin.
Here is how it was.
Completely on my own, at home, in the fourth grade, I sat down at our round table at home, put a stamp with the leader, or rather his head, in front of me, and after several attempts I redrew it very similar, only a little larger.
Then I showed it to the head of the drawing group. He didn’t believe it at first, he applied the drawing to the stamp, looked at the light, thinking that I had translated it somehow, but the drawing was a little larger... then he was delighted, he even praised my mother, my mother took the drawing, wrapped it in wax and kept it for a long time. Then he got lost.
Now I have been looking through stamps on the Internet for a long time, I found a very similar one, and the year was right, and the memories came back to life.

I repeated that successful one time again, and again, and by the seventh grade I could easily depict the leader’s profile in the corner of the newspaper.
The difficulty was that not everyone was allowed such a sacred rite. There is no point in distorting bright features. The teachers and head teacher looked at my drawings for a long time, but they still allowed me to do it.
Gorki Leninskie
In the sixth grade, when an almost traditional April wall newspaper competition was held for the leader’s birthday, it turned out that one girl’s relatives lived right in Gorki Leninskiye, in the memorial complex, the place of the last residence and death of Lenin’s grandfather (yes, grandfather was only fifty-four) .
An idea was born - to go there, watch, listen, record, photograph, and then publish this material in a newspaper.
About four of us gathered, me, a girl whose relatives, and a couple of people who joined us.
I grabbed a camera; by that time I was already using the Zenit-S SLR camera my father had given me, naturally still a film camera. I also knew how to develop and print, and I loved this job very much.
We decided to go in the morning. At home, in order to avoid the ban, I did not speak. I think she said that after school I’d be late on Pioneer business. We couldn’t estimate the time; there was no Internet, no cell phones.
We told the head teacher at school that we were going with someone’s mother, and we were released from class.
By train and metro we got to the Paveletsky station, then by train, probably to Leninskaya, pompous and beautiful. We walked from the platform, a friend took us to her relatives’ house, and then everything was fine. They gave me tea, showed me the greenhouses where one of my relatives worked, took me to Lenin’s museum-apartment in Gorki, and even gave me a tour guide. On a weekday spring day of the people, i.e. there were few excursions there, they waited a little, and they took us everywhere, I photographed everything, wrote down stories in a notebook... just like real journalists.
Meanwhile it was getting dark.
We drove back through Gerasimovka, because I remembered a wooden platform at dusk, like a field nearby.
We got home in excitement and even fear.
Of course, the parents were already alarmed, went to school, everything was revealed. Of course they scolded me.
But no other unit had such a newspaper.
Galya
The entire school pioneer movement was headed by the Senior Pioneer Leader. Where did they come from? Then I found out that, for example, one of my classmates, having entered the evening pedagogical institute after school, worked during the day just in home school in this position.
Our name was Galya. In the fifth grade I was timid, in the sixth less so, in the seventh I sometimes even replaced her when she was sick at planning meetings in the House of Pioneers. We had this wooden two-story house in our village, and that’s where I went to draw. There, the pioneers were led by a middle-aged woman, Rada Mikhailovna.
I liked Galya; it was a pleasure to be a pioneer under her leadership. One day she fell ill for a long time, and we went to visit her home, in a small wooden house nearby. There she gave me all sorts of tasks, I wrote them down, and was probably proud of the assigned responsibility for the entire pioneering of the school. Then Gali had a young man. Lesha, it seems... Of course, we activists discussed this among ourselves. Lesha came into the school, they were chatting at the window of the hall, and one day they locked themselves in the pioneer room during recess, and I stood guard, also very proud of myself, and did not let in the eager pioneers for unknown reasons. I thought: they are probably kissing there.
Half a century later, I sometimes meet Galya in our village, sometimes we return from work on the same train, but she doesn’t recognize me, and I don’t know, I don’t dare.

KID
In our school, and maybe in all of them, an International Friendship Club was organized. I can’t say where the children of the socialist countries wrote at first, maybe to the main Pioneer Palace, the letters spread throughout the cities and towns, and reached our school, maybe through the pioneers, maybe through the RONO and teachers. It seems that ours, young at that time, and only the “German” teacher Anna Davydovna, who left her post, was heading something there. In general, I was given a pack of letters to distribute to my squad. The detachment resisted, and of course the rest went to me. A girl from Bratislava, Luba Kvasnickova, a boy, Janek, from Warsaw, and someone else. They wrote in Russian, because everyone there taught it. They, too, under guidance, probably wanted to be friends and correspond. With the boy everything died down after a few letters, but with Lyuba the correspondence continued for quite a long time. What they wrote about was school life. books read, movies... At that time, say, the wonderful Soviet-Polish film “Four Tank Men and a Dog” was shown on television, it was shown in all countries of the commonwealth, you could talk about it, exchange postcards, newspaper clippings.
Here's about this wonderful film:
“Four;re tanks;sta and dog;ka” (Polish: Czterej pancerni i pies) is a Polish black and white television series based on the story of the same name by Janusz Przymanowski. The series belongs to the military-adventure genre and tells about the combat everyday life of the crew of the Red tank and a dog named Sharik during the Second World War.
The series was released at 20:00 (Polish time) on May 9, 1966. The series consists of three seasons, which were filmed and shown on Polish television in 1966, 1969 and 1970. The entire series, designed for children and youth audiences, was shown annually in Poland until 1989.
In the USSR, the series was first shown on September 25, 1968.
During its broadcast in Poland, the series was a huge success. Without exaggeration, we can say that an entire generation of Polish youth grew up and was educated on it: based on the series, lessons were held in schools, plays were staged in theaters, and so-called Tank Clubs were organized.
The series gained no less popularity in the USSR under the name “Four Tankmen and a Dog”, in the GDR under the name “Vier Panzerfahrer und ein Hund”, as well as in other countries of the Soviet bloc.

Luba is from Slovakia, at that time a republic in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Luba had a dad - Jan Kvasnicka, some kind of party figure. Sometimes he came to Moscow and brought me and my family a parcel. I called up my mother, who works in Moscow, not far from GUM, and we met there at the fountain, my mother also took out a box of chocolates and something else in response.
Lyuba and I corresponded until we graduated from school, and also in college, then of course, somehow everything died out.
But we met in person once. We were already studying at institutes, and Lyuba and a tourist group came to us, and not to Moscow, they visited her while passing through, it seems they were in Leningrad, for sure, because she agreed, I met her at the Leningradsky station and took her to my home, on by train. We passed, I remember, Lyubertsy, there was a factory along the railway, almost closed at that time, with old, probably pre-revolutionary buildings, dilapidated. She asked in amazement - has this been destroyed since the war? Yep, I readily confirmed. She brought us to her home, my grandmother fed us, we sat in my room, then we walked in the park, and then we went back and “surrendered” her near VDNKh. Now I think - maybe it would be more interesting for her to see Moscow, but she wanted to see her herself.

Zarnitsa
The military-patriotic game “Zarnitsa” was also held in all schools, and between schools. One of the brightest memories of my pioneer days. A special joy was that military fantasies and games had haunted me since childhood. And in the seventh and eighth grade, I sometimes continued to buy pistols in a toy store, metal ones, similar to real ones, some of which are still in the closet somewhere.
And here is the interschool Zarnitsa, in winter. On this day there were shortened lessons, everyone came already in “combat” uniform to fight in the winter forest on the edge of the village. And I, as the chairman of the squad council (this was already in the eighth grade) and, accordingly, the commander-in-chief of the school army, was supposed to come in a military shirt, with shoulder straps. For this I had to go to Moscow, to the famous Voentorg opposite the Arbatskaya metro station, this store came in handy later, when the institute had a military department, green shirts were purchased there.
Pants, a shirt, shoulder straps (I don’t remember what was there with the stars), a pistol taken into my bag for my own joy - I felt absolutely wonderful. In formation, in detachments, we walked through the village to the winter forest and took up our position. I had to sit in the headquarters, receive intelligence reports, issue commands... There was an assault on the fortress, the capture of the banner. Of course, someone was in charge of the game, I don’t particularly remember the goal or who won.

Post number....
There was the number one post in the country - at the Lenin Mausoleum.
And the pioneers held a post either at the Eternal Flame on May 9, or at the monument to Lenin, on his birthday. In our village, such a monument stood near the plant, next to the House of Culture. Near the monument there were flower beds, blue Christmas trees were planted, and behind the leader on the wall were photographs of leading production workers.
Our school was entrusted with standing guard at the monument for about two hours, it seems. The headquarters of the “guards” was in the recreation center, from there two pioneers with a guard solemnly walked to the monument, changed the guard and walked back. I had to stand as expected - frozen, hands at my sides, for about twenty minutes, I think. People walked by, no one was surprised, and personally, I had feelings of pride and responsibility in my soul. I stood by myself and supervised the divorces.

In the meantime, we have grown to a new level.

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During the first pioneer detachments in the cities, groups of proletarian children aged 8 to 11 years were organized - assistants and future replacements of pioneers and Komsomol members. These groups were given various affectionate names, for example, “red stars” in Ukraine, “red poppies” in Siberia, “flowers,” “bouquets” and “gardens” in the Caucasus, “red grains” in Odessa, etc.

In Moscow, the name “Octobers” became popular, in honor of the victory of the October Revolution. This is how they began to be officially called in 1923. The Octobrists were united into stars (analogous to the pioneer unit) - October 5 and also the “sickle” and “hammer” - the leader of the star and his assistant.

Just as the Komsomol led the activities of the pioneer organization, young Leninists were responsible for the Octoberists - pioneer squads and detachments created October groups and organized their work. One of their laws directly said: “A pioneer is a comrade and leader of the Octobrists.”

The first laws and customs of the Octobrists, in fact, are the quintessence of the pioneer ones.

Laws:
Octoberists help pioneers, Komsomol members, communists, workers and peasants.
Octobers strive to become young pioneers.

Customs:
October people take care of the cleanliness of their body and clothing.
Octobers love to work.

The mottos and slogans of the kids were the same as those of the pioneers. But instead of a red tie, the Octobrists wore a red star sewn onto their shirt on the left chest. Subsequently, it was transformed into a star-shaped badge, in the middle of which there was a portrait of Lenin as a child.

In the 1930s and 40s, the number of Octobrists increased slowly; their laws and symbols often still merged with those of the pioneers. For example, the first October march, written in the early 1920s, began like this:

We are marching with joy,
Children of villages and cities
To the aid of older brothers
Pioneer is always ready!
Hey, October squad,
Double up the columns!
Line up!
To the parade.
Raise your banners.

And in the 1936 primer, which was used to learn to read in elementary school, the following rhyme is given:

We are funny guys.
Our name is October.
We don't need any extra words.
Be ready!
Always ready!

After a radical restructuring of the pioneer organization according to the school principle, October groups began to be created in grades 1–3 of the school. The groups were led by counselors from among the school's pioneers or Komsomol members. In these groups, children prepared to join the All-Union Pioneer Organization named after V.I. Lenin.

When joining the ranks of the Octobrists, children were given a badge - a five-pointed ruby ​​star with a portrait of Lenin as a child. The symbol of the group was the red October flag. The October group consisted of several units called “stars”, each of which usually included 5 children - a symbol of a five-pointed star. As a rule, in the “star”, each October child occupied one of the positions - commander, florist, orderly, librarian or athlete.

All-Union (“Vesyolye Kartinki” and “Murzilka”) and republican magazines were published for the October students. For example, in the Moldavian SSR the magazine “Stelutsa” (“Star”) was published in Moldavian and Russian. Pioneer newspapers also published materials intended for the Octobrists. Every year for October children the publishing house “Malysh” published the table calendar “Zvezdochka”. Methodological materials about working with October students were regularly published in the magazines “Counselor”, “Primary School”, “Education of Schoolchildren” and other publications.

The rules of the Octobrists were explained with all their might, both orally and in posters and in literature for the little ones. To make them easier for young children to remember, they rhymed.

Here is the latest edition October rules:
Octobers are future pioneers.
October students are diligent guys, they love school and respect their elders.
Only those who love work are called Octobers.
Octobers are truthful and courageous, dexterous and skillful.
The Octobers are friendly guys, they read and draw, play and sing, and live happily.

A marching octobers became the verse of O. Vysotskaya “Octobers”:

We are funny guys
We are October guys.
It’s not for nothing that they called us that
In honor of the victory of October.
We are all accustomed to order.
We do exercises in the morning
And we want the mark "five"
In lessons you will receive...

“Pioneers must remember that younger brothers and sisters are their replacement,” said N.K. Krupskaya. And this shift is October! The first groups of Octobrists were created in the summer of 1923 under the Moscow pioneer detachments. Most of the Octobers were the same age as the Great October Socialist Revolution, hence the name. In August 1924, these groups were officially recognized as preparatory groups under the Pioneer organization.

In the 1930s and 40s, the number of Octobrists increased slowly; their laws and symbols often still merged with those of the pioneers. For example, the first October march, written in the early 1920s, began like this:

We are marching with joy,
Children of villages and cities
To the aid of older brothers
Pioneer is always ready!
Hey, October squad,
Double up the columns!
Line up!
To the parade.
Raise your banners.

And in the 1936 primer, which was used to learn to read in elementary school, the following rhyme is given:

We are funny guys.
Our name is October.
We don't need any extra words.
Be ready! Always ready!

Work with the Octobrists was based on the rules developed for them, they participated in all state campaigns in which the pioneers took part, only doing work feasible for their age - collecting recyclable materials, helping to care for animals, learning to sew, craft, etc. Everything is the same. adults – meetings, discussions, responsibilities. It was precisely these responsibilities that made them more mature and responsible. There were even Rules of the October Revolution. And they were easy, simple and understandable. And most importantly, the Octobrists observed them not for the sake of “obligation,” but with pride:

Octobers are future pioneers. October students are diligent guys, they love school and respect their elders. Only those who love work are called Octobers. Octobers are truthful and courageous, dexterous and skillful. The Octobers are friendly guys, they read and draw, play and sing, and live happily.

What a joy and pride it was when you, yesterday’s “just a first-grader,” were solemnly accepted as an October student in front of the whole school! And now you are no longer just a first-grader, but an October child, and, most importantly, now you have a BADGE on your chest - a red star with a portrait of little Volodya Ulyanov, the future Leader of the world proletariat - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Just as the Komsomol led the activities of the pioneer organization, young Leninists - pioneer squads and detachments - were responsible for the Octoberists, they created October groups and organized their work. One of their laws directly said: “A pioneer is a comrade and leader of the Octobrists.”

In modern Russia, after the collapse of the USSR, the October, pioneer and Komsomol movements ceased to exist at the state level. But it was they who made us friendlier, more united, who made us a team. Nowadays there is a lot of talk about how this suppressed the child’s personality and deprived him of his individuality. Nonsense! Only in a team can a real personality manifest itself; without a sense of responsibility, the development of a full-fledged personality is impossible.

Communist Party Russian Federation continues ideological work with youth. Every year, on Red Square in the capital of our Motherland, thousands of schoolchildren from Moscow, the Moscow region and other cities of our vast Russia are accepted into the ranks of pioneers. The Moscow region is a leader in recruiting children to become pioneers. But now we are talking about the pioneer shift - the Octoberists.

On May 5, at a secondary school in Fryazino near Moscow, three primary classes of boys and girls took a solemn oath as Octobrists, happily joining the ranks of the Pioneer shift. The ceremonial assembly dedicated to this significant event not only for junior schoolchildren, but also for their parents, was held in the school assembly hall. The main organizer of this event is the First Secretary of the Fryazinsky Civil Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation V.N. Sergeeva. The ceremony was attended by Deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma V.B. Melnikov, deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Fryazino urban district E.V. Romanova, founder of the pioneer movement in the city of Fryazino Yu.I. Moldovanov, pioneer leader of secondary school No. 4 T.V. Korableva, representatives of the “Children of War” generation, honorary residents of the city. The festive line-up took place on the eve of the 72nd anniversary of the Great Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War and in the year of the 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. First-graders and senior schoolchildren congratulated everyone present on this significant date and gave a festive concert at which they sang songs, read poems, and danced. No one remained indifferent.

Valentina Nikolaevna Sergeeva told the press service of the Moscow regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation about the great work with the younger generation:

Last year, for the first time, the Fryazino State Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation accepted about 70 junior schoolchildren into the ranks of the Octobrists. I believe that the October movement needs to be restored and developed. October – preparatory stage for admission to the pioneers. This is an inextricable connection: Octoberists, pioneers, Komsomol members - the system of not only education, but also upbringing, which was in the Soviet Union. Now our party organization is trying to revive these movements. Life has shown that parents of schoolchildren do not object to their children becoming October students, as they themselves once were. The most important thing is that the children are happy to join the ranks of the Octobrists. So that they understand what kind of children's room this is public organization, we, adults, explain to them that the Octobrists are the younger comrades of the pioneers, their helpers in good deeds. Now, on the eve of the 72nd anniversary of the Great Victory of the Soviet people over Nazi Germany, our pioneers and Octobrists are participating in the implementation of a program to help veterans of the Great Patriotic War, especially lonely veterans who have no relatives. Children are happy to help them around the house and bring them gifts. In addition to the organizers of this assistance to veterans, parents of October children and pioneers also participate in it. Sponsorship assistance here is minimal. Each family donates food and gifts to lonely veterans.

Of course, I really want the October Pioneer-Komsomol movement to be systemic. The most important task of the October movement and the pioneer organization is to cultivate a sense of camaraderie. The problem of modern youth is disunity, there are no groups. We finished school for the day and went home. Russia has not yet come up with an alternative to these movements.

Deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma, Communist Party faction Vasily Borisovich Melnikov shared with us joyful memories from his childhood in October:

When I was an October boy, I especially remember the October star, which we proudly wore, our friendship, camaraderie. And especially the assignment that was given to me in class at that time: to check that my classmates’ hands, necks, ears, and clothes were not dirty. I struggled with this thoroughly. The October Movement is now 93 years old. And when the Great began Patriotic War, those first Octobers, having matured, went to the front, defended our Motherland, many did not return from the war. And I want to wish the current October students good studies, so that they love their Motherland, help each other and their elders, grow true friends and comrades.

Head teacher Elena Aleksandrovna Ilyicheva addressed all those present, indicating that today’s event was taking place on the eve of Victory Day and wished the junior schoolchildren entering the October class success in their studies:

I am very pleased to welcome three junior grades of students to our school today. September 1st to our educational institution turns 50 years old. I would like to wish the younger children to study well, to be exemplary, and to respect their elders.

Deputy of the Fryazino Council of Deputies Elena Vladimirovna Romanova I wished the little October students that they would remember this day for the rest of their lives, that they would bear this title with pride and be obedient and good students.

The October star, a pioneer tie, a Komsomol badge - for many - this is a happy Soviet childhood. It was not darkened, kind, friendly and happy. We were confident in the future, that we would not abandon a friend in trouble, the inspiration and example were the heroic pioneers, great construction projects, space... I would like that with the revival of the October and pioneer movements, the Komsomol, all the good things from the Soviet past would transfer to the present to the younger generation. Good luck!