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Also known as: All-Union Lenin Pioneer Organization, Pionery, Vsesoyuznaya Pionerskaya Organizatsiya Imeni V. I. Lenina
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Pioneers, former Soviet organization for youth aged 9 to 14, closely associated with the Komsomol (q.v.) for youth aged 14 to 28.