Komsomol direction

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The Komsomol direction ({{Langx|ru|комсомольская путёвка|translit=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", {{Langx|ru|комсомольская стройка|label=none}}{{cite web|url=http://telegraf.com.ua/rossiya-i-sng/854392-lukashenko-po-komsomolskoy-putevke-na-komsomolskuyu-stroyku.html|title=Лукашенко: По комсомольской путевке - на комсомольскую стройку |trans-title=Lukashenka: On a Komsomol ticket - to a Komsomol construction site |date=30 October 2013|publisher=telegraf.com.ua |accessdate=28 November 2018}}), army service, etc.{{Cite web |last=Lapenkov |first=A. |url=http://pospeliha.ru/zemlyaki/pozvala-komsomolskaya-putyovka.htm |title=Позвала комсомольская путёвка "Новый путь" – газета Поспелихинского района |trans-title=The Komsomol ticket called "New Way" |publisher=Novyi Put |date=25 March 2014 |via=Pospelikhinsky district newspaper |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704210452/http://pospeliha.ru/zemlyaki/pozvala-komsomolskaya-putyovka.htm |archive-date=4 July 2015 |url-status=dead}}

During the 10th five-year plan more than 500,000 young volunteers were assigned to shock construction projects with Komsomol travel tickets.{{Cite web |last=Glebov |first=Vladimir |url=http://smena-online.ru/stories/komsomolskaya-putevka-tsel-preobrazovanie-adres-raiony-osvoeniya |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704202050/http://smena-online.ru/stories/komsomolskaya-putevka-tsel-preobrazovanie-adres-raiony-osvoeniya |archive-date=July 4, 2015 |title=Комсомольская путевка: цель – преобразование, адрес – районы освоения |trans-title=Komsomol travel ticket: goal - transformation, location - areas of development |publisher="Smena" magazine |issue=1311 |date=January 1982 |via=web.archive.org}} Komsomol organizations formed and directed 100 All-Union squads consisting of 80,000 people.

At the construction sites travel tickets recipients earned labor days ({{langx|ru|трудодни|translit=trudodni|label=none}}), which were assigned different values that depended on the type of work was performed.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

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.