Young Army Cadets National Movement

Young Army Cadets National Movement

Юнармия
Logo of the Young Army Cadets National Movement
Formation	October 29, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-10-29) (presidential decree) July 29, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-07-29) (state registration)
Founder	Sergey Shoigu
Headquarters	1st Krasnokursantsky passage, 1/4, building 1, Moscow, Russia
Official language	Russian
Chief of the Main Staff	Nikita Nagornyy
Parent organization	DOSAAF
Website	yunarmy.ru

The All-Russian Military Patriotic Social Movement "Young Army" (Всероссийское военно-патриотическое общественное движение «Юнармия», sometimes transliterated as Yunarmiya) is a youth organization supported and funded by the Government of Russia through the Ministry of Defence of Russia (MOD)^{[citation needed]} with a mission to train future personnel for the uniformed services. Established in October 2015, its pusposes are to instill the values of patriotism, national service, national and military history, remembrance of past military operations and campaigns and of the fallen of its armed forces, and to help develop the country as its population grows.^[1][2]

While being a successor to the military courses in both the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization and the Komsomol during Soviet times, and keeping the traditions of the Great Patriotic War services of these organizations, it is affiliated with the Russian Armed Forces, DOSAAF and the MOD Armed Forces Central Sports Society.