Young Guard (Soviet resistance)

The Young Guard (Russian: Молодая гвардия, romanized: Molodaya gvardiya; Ukrainian: Молода гвардія, romanized: Moloda hvardiya) was an underground anti-fascist Komsomol organization, in the German-occupied Soviet city of Krasnodon (Ukrainian SSR, now Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine). They were active during World War II, until January 1943.