It is an opportunity to become the better version of yourself, a deserving heir to the great deeds of pathfinders, founders and trailblazers, who are distinguished by the desire to win in all their endeavours and reluctance to rest on their laurels. Being a member of the Movement is the choice of those strong and ready to write their names in the history of Russia.
The Movement of the First means hundreds of unique programmes of education and personal development, active and responsible youth community, to whom respect for traditions and cultures of the peoples of Russia, historical continuity and involvement with the fate of the country, in which the main value was, is and will be the family, are important.
Goals of the Movement
The main goals of the Movement of the First are:
Facilitating the implementation of state policy in favour of children and youth
Promoting the education of children, their vocational guidance and organising leisure activities for children and youth
Creating equal opportunities for the comprehensive development and self-fulfilment of children and youth
Preparing children and youth for a full-fledged life in society, including shaping their world views on the basis of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, the traditions of the peoples of the Russian Federation and the achievements of Russian and world culture, as well as developing in them socially significant and creative activity, high moral qualities, love and respect for the Homeland, diligence, legal culture, respect for the environment, and personal responsibility for one’s own fate and the fate of the Homeland to the present and future generations.
Mission of the Movement
Movement’s Values
Life and Dignity
Members of the Movement value the life of every human being first and foremost. They cherish their own dignity and care about protecting the dignity of others.
Friendship
The Movement is a source of Friendship for each of its members. By joining the Movement, everyone can find friends close in beliefs, hobbies, interests and age. Within the Movement, friends are always there to support.
PATRIOTISM
Members of the Movement love their Homeland - Russia. Love for the country is manifested in deeds and actions.
Kindness and Justice
Members of the Movement act justly, advance goodness, and consider kindness to be a trait of strong people. Everyone's inner voice tells us that only good deeds change life for the better.
Dream
Members of the Movement know how to dream and make their dreams come true. Bold dreams bring new opportunities and unexplored horizons to mankind.
Creative Work
Each member of the Movement makes a difference through their labour: they create a new quality of their knowledge, skills and abilities, and apply them for the benefit of their family, the Movement and the whole country.
Mutual Support and Respect
Members of the Movement act as a team, helping each other in their studies, labour, searching for and discovering everyone's talent. They overcome difficulties hand in hand.
Unity of the Peoples of Russia
Members of the Movement, being new generations of the multinational and multi-confessional people of Russia, respect each other's culture, traditions, customs and beliefs. This is a unique heritage of our country: unity in diversity within the Homeland.
Historical Memory
Members of the Movement study, know and protect the history of Russia, oppose any attempts to distort and denigrate it. They preserve the memory of the defenders of the Homeland.
Service to the Homeland
Members of the Movement are united with the Homeland by common destiny. Everyone in their place prepares itself for service to the Homeland and responsibility for its future.
Strong Family
Members of the Movement share traditional family values. They are proud of the Russian culture of fatherhood and motherhood. They honour large families. They help younger children, take care of grandparents in the family.
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The Movement of the First works in following areas:
The Movement encourages its members to be responsible in their studies, to study subjects more profoundly and to take advantage of additional opportunities to acquire new knowledge; it creates field-specific educational programmes, competitions and joint activities with the country’s universities, allowing participants to succeed in their studies and to choose a place for further education. It creates unique opportunities for all members to have free access to high quality educational programmes, to receive support from friends and experts in solving school issues, in passing final or entrance exams, to have access to competitions and contests, which give an opportunity to move on to the next level of education after school.
The Movement encourages its members to get involved in science. The Movement supports the desire of children and youth to participate in educational programmes, assists in the implementation of scientific and research ideas, and promotes scientific and technical creativity among children and youth. It creates opportunities for the design and implementation of children's and youth's scientific ideas, creates conditions for the free acquisition of relevant knowledge and skills, provides opportunities for training in leading companies and mentoring support for corresponding activities, provides access to modern AI advances and involves members under agreement with partner organisations. The Movement takes part in the creation of IT community.
The Movement assists its members in choosing their career, creates specific resources that enable the members of the Movement to get acquainted with the labour market of the country, decide on the choice of an employer and prepare in advance not only for the choice of a career path, but also their place of work. The Movement aims to give each member an opportunity to decide on their vocation and get a job according to it, and creates conditions that let the members acquire the first skills of entrepreneurship, gain knowledge in the field of business projecting, learn hands-on the mechanisms of creating and technologies of large business models. The Movement becomes a start-up platform for anyone who wants to try themselves in entrepreneurship, is ready for financial independence and responsibility for their business.
The Movement seeks to foster interest in the country's cultural heritage among new generations, engages children and youth in researching, studying and acquiring skills in understanding works of art, encourages them to develop their own creative projects and provides conditions for their implementation. The Movement offers opportunities for immersion in the arts by providing access to libraries, theatres, philharmonics, cinemas, galleries and other venues where works of art are created and exhibited. The Movement discovers talents and creates opportunities for their promotion, as well as for engaging children and youth in successful creative projects at various levels.
The Movement creates a space where everyone can actively do good deeds, where anyone can rely on support, count on help and find protection, encourages children and youth to create volunteer communities ready to work together with Russia's multi-million volunteer family, involving them in joint work with representatives of older generations. The Movement creates opportunities for prompt response to a request for help and the implementation of charity ideas. It supports children in orphanages, young patients in clinics for severe and long-term diseases, elderly people finding themselves alone when they retire, teenagers who got into a destructive environment, and anyone who finds themselves in danger or in a difficult life situation.
The Movement considers the Homeland to be the main value, heritage and reason for pride for every member of the community; it is involved in preserving and passing on the historical memory; it encourages children and youth to serve the Fatherland and study its history; it creates conditions for the development and implementation of projects to promote remarkable events and figures in the country's history; and it teaches how to distinguish historical truth from lies. The Movement creates resources that make it possible to study the country's history, get acquainted with its historical and commemorative sites and monuments of the heroic past.
The Movement provides conditions and encourages children and youth to do sports. It establishes its branches within sports federations, initiates and creates sports teams of the Movement's members for different types of sport, sets a calendar of the Movement’s sports competitions, provides an opportunity to take part in training or become a fan of sports events featuring the country's top coaches, masters and stars. The Movement is dedicated to helping children and youth with disabilities to engage in sports, creating fan teams and supporting Russia and its athletes at the world championships, primarily the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Movement strives to have a much deeper involvement in the world sports community therefore it designs its own program of sports competitions. Members of the Movement actively cooperate with sports federations, creating Primary Branches of the Movement within them.
The Movement supports a healthy lifestyle, promotes the ideas of health and abandoning bad habits among children and youth as well as among adults involved in the Movement’s activities. It creates opportunities to gain additional knowledge about ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle and physical health, information about community sports events and access to sports activities at partner venues. The members of the Movement pass the "Ready for Labor and Defense" standards and strive to increase the level of their physical abilities. The members of the Movement are interested in such projects aimed at involving children and youth in physical education, hardening of the body, daily training and participation in sports events.
The Movement provides an opportunity to develop skills in the field of creating and disseminating news, information, stories about individuals, trends and events, creates conditions for the development of children's journalism and the involvement of youth in the profession of a journalist. The Movement motivates and creates opportunities for acquiring the skills of participating in public discussions and public speaking, mastery of rhetoric and oratory, creating news and journalistic texts. The members of the Movement can successfully implement their ideas in blogging and creating and developing Telegram channels.
Children are inborn diplomats: they are open, sincere and there are no borders for them. The Movement of the First works in the sphere of international relations, establishing children’s and youth projects aimed at engaging children in learning the basics of international relations and diplomacy, as well as holding events with the Movement's partner countries both in Russia and abroad!
The Movement actively seeks to find and establish contacts with international children's and youth organisations in foreign countries in order to enhance mutual understanding between children’s and youth communities in Russia and foreign countries.
The motto of the international section of the Movement of the First is "Know How to Be Friends". Representatives of children and youth communities participating in the Movement of the First have already proved that friendship is the most important resource, and it is only together that we can achieve great success.
The Movement actively seeks to find and establish contacts with international children's and youth organisations in foreign countries in order to enhance mutual understanding between children’s and youth communities in Russia and foreign countries.
The motto of the international section of the Movement of the First is "Know How to Be Friends". Representatives of children and youth communities participating in the Movement of the First have already proved that friendship is the most important resource, and it is only together that we can achieve great success.
The Movement creates environmental agenda programs for each age group of its members. It provides opportunities for acquiring eco-friendly behaviour skills from early childhood, encourages participants to study the laws of nature, the ecosystems of their hometown, the country and the whole planet, and the human impact on nature and ecology. The Movement is interested in the implementation of such projects that involve nature preservation, eco-control and eco-responsibility, and hopes that parents, teachers, and all adults of the Movement will join this work. The Movement is willing to get involved in eco-activities formed by high-level international organisations.
Given the need of children and youth for adventure, discovering uncharted lands, overcoming the difficulties during travelling, the Movement encourages participants to acquire tourism skills, respect for nature and the environment, to study history, geography, historical and cultural heritage of their region, country and abroad. The Movement creates an opportunity to organise its members own tourist routes or projects, allows the members to join existing children's tourism programs, creates travel navigation platforms, and allows to gain knowledge about preparing for responsible travel and the rules for participating in tourism programs.
Address:
109028, Moscow, st. Zemlyanoy Val, 1 50A, building 2 (metro station "Kurskaya")
109028, Moscow, st. Zemlyanoy Val, 1 50A, building 2 (metro station "Kurskaya")
Organization working hours:
Mon–Fri | 9.00–18.00
Mon–Fri | 9.00–18.00