Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic

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thumb|300px|LKSM_KFSSR_First_Secretary_Yuri Andropov speaks at the May 9, 1945, victory celebrations] Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish SSR ( _ru. 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 1940-1956. The first congress of LKSM KFSSR was held June 1-June 3 1940. The conference elected a Central Committee, with Yuri Andropov as its First Secretary. During the Second World War, the Central Committee of the LKSM KFSSR organized partisan resistance against the occupying forces, both in urban and rural areas. [http://guides.eastview.com/browse/guidebook.html?bid=5&sid=308984 The Republic of Karelia State Archive of Modern Political History. Guide-Book ] ]

Andropov continued in the post until 1944. [ [http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/andropov.html Андропов Юрий Владимирович ] ]

In total seven congresses of LKSM KFSSR were held. LKSM KFSSR published Юные ленинцы and Молодой большевик.

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