Little Octobrists ( ; singular, ) is a Soviet term that first appeared in 1923–1924, and at that time referred to children born in 1917, the year of the October revolution. Later, the term was used as the name of a youth organization for children between 7 and 9 years of age. After the age of nine, in the 3rd grade, Little Octobrists would typically join the Young Pioneer organization. Little Octobrists were organized in groups each representing one school grade level. The group was divided into subgroups called little stars (), of five children each. Each group of Little Octobrists was under the leadership of one Young Pioneer from the Young Pioneer detachment. Every Little Octobrist wore a ruby-coloured five-pointed star badge with the portrait of Vladimir Lenin in his childhood. The symbol of the group was the little red flag. Description On July 18, 1924, the VI Congress of the RLKSM wrote in its resolution "On the organizational development of children's groups": "... it is possible for the communist movement to cover younger children, 8-11 years old, by creating a junior branch of the children's communist movement." The term "Octobrists" appeared in 1923-1924, when the first groups of children began to appear in Moscow, into which children of the same age as the Great October Socialist Revolution were admitted. The same resolution of the VI Congress of the RLKSM established the structure of the October organization: a group of Octobrists of 25 children organized under the pioneer detachment was divided into links of 5 people (later the links began to be called asterisks and could reach 7-10 children; according to the regulations on the All-Union Pioneer Organization (1957) .) - up to 8 people; Regulations on the All-Union Pioneer Organization (1967) - 5-6 schoolchildren). The group is led by a Komsomol member allocated by the RLKSM cell and who is an assistant to the leader of the pioneer detachment. The pioneers are in charge of the squads, and October assistants are selected to help the pioneers. There was a group council, which consisted of its leader, link leaders and their assistants, that is, an Octobrist could only be an assistant linkman and an ordinary member of the group board. In 1957, the Octobrists gained the right to lead the stars. Groups of Octobrists were created in the first grades of schools and operated until the Octobrists entered the