A Brief History of the Russian Scout Movement!
 
  History of Scouting in Russia begins with the first group of young scouts, founded April 30, 1909 in Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg officer of the Guards OI Pantyukhov. The most intensive scouting movement began to develop in the years of World War I. The autumn of 1917, there were 50,000 Scouts in 143 cities. Among Russian scout leaders, along with Pantyukhov can be called such as GA Zaharchenko (founder of the 1st squad in Moscow), Dr. AK Anokhin (Kiev, 1st female detachment), VG Yanchevetsky (writer Jan), sculptor I. Zhukov, Admiral IF Boström (Chairman of the St. Petersburg Society "Russian Scout"), General II Tchaikovsky (similar chairman of the Moscow Society), VA Popov (chief editor of "Around the World"), and others. Scouts were prince-heir Alexei, son of ST Savva Morozov, the grandson of VM Viktor Vasnetsov, poet and playwright Nikolai Aduev (author of the anthem Scouts), polar explorer Ernst.
Scout groups existed in Russia until 1923, when they were forcibly disbanded in favor of the Pioneer organization. After that Russian scout organization OI Pantyukhov preserved only abroad, where it changed its name several times. Dawn activity NORS (National Organization of Russian Scouts) came in the 30s, when in Manchuria, China, Yugoslavia, France, Poland, Latvia, Estonia and other countries have been thousands of Russian Scouts.
During World War II, the Nazis was a terrible blow to razvedchestvu, communication with the Chief Russian Scout OI Pantyukhov was lost. Despite the fact that all Scout associations were banned by the Nazis, there were those who worked with the scouts in the underground. The most active leaders resumed activities Russian scout organization in 1945, now called ORYR. Departments ORYR actively operated in Western Europe, Australia, North and South America, in 1979, there was an association ORYR and NORS