Leninist Young Communist League of Estonia

Leninist Young Communist League of Estonia
ELKNÜ
ЛКСМЭ

Estonian: Eestimaa Leninlik Kommunistlik Noorsooühing
Russian: Ленинский коммунистический союз молодежи Эстонии
Founded1940
Preceded byYoung Communist League of Estonia
Dissolved1991
HeadquartersTallinn, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
Membership162,202 (1980)
Ideology
Mother partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
State partyCommunist Party of Estonia
National affiliationKomsomol (until 1989)
International affiliationWorld Federation of Democratic Youth
NewspaperNoorte Hääl

The Leninist Young Communist League of Estonia (Estonian: Eestimaa Leninlik Kommunistlik Noorsooühing, ELKNÜ) was a political youth organization that served as the Estonian branch of Komsomol and as the official youth organ of the Estonian Communist Party (EKP). It existed from 1940 until the dissolution of the EKP in 1991.