Scouting and Guiding in Ukraine - Ukrainian Scout Organizations

Ukrainian Scout Organizations

• Asotsiatsiya Haydiv Ukrayiny ("Association of Ukrainian Guides"), member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, with 968 members
• Asotsiatsiya Skautiv Ukraïni ("Association of Scouts of Ukraine" ASU, Ukrainian-speaking)
• ISKRA (Spark) Crimean Scout Association, supported by the Scouts de France
• Kárpátaljai Magyar Cserkészszövetség (KáMCSSZ), ethnic Hungarian Scouts in Ukraine linked to Magyar Cserkészszövetség
• Khar'kovskaya Oblastnaya Organizatsiya Skautov ("Kharkiv Oblast Organization of Scouts"/Харьковская Областная Организация Скаутов, Russian-speaking)
• Luhans'ka Oblasna Organizatsiya Skautiv ("Luhansk Oblast Organization of Scouts"/Луганська обласна Организация Скаутів, Ukrainian-speaking)
• National Organization of Scouts of Ukraine, member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement; 2,475 individual members
  • Plast, the largest Scouting organization in Ukraine
    • Chornomortsi, "Sailors of the Black Sea"
    • Ulad Starshoho Plastunstva ("Order of Senior Scouting", Ukrainian Rovers)
  • Vseukrajinska molodizhna gromadska organizatsiya "SPOK (Спілка піонерських організацій міста Києва/"Union of Pioneer Organizations of Kiev" 1990-1992, Спілка дитячих та юнацьких організацій міста Києва/"Union of the Children and Youth organizations of the City of Kyiv" 1993-2003, since 2003 the Всеукраїнська молодіжна громадська організація "СПОК"/All Ukrainian Youth Public Organization "SPOK") SPOK is an acrostic of the four words of the organization's motto (S – самостійність (samostijnist') independence, P – порядність (poryadnist') decency, O – оптимізм (optimizm) optimism, кмітливість (kmitlyvist') quick-wittedness)
  • All-Ukrainian organization Sich (Січ) meaning Cossack fortress
• Ruthenian Girl and Boy Scouts (Rusyn Slavic minority, known as Русины, referred to as Carpatho-Rusyns and Rusniaks)
• Spilka Ukraïns'koï Molodi (Спілка української молоді "Ukrainian Youth Association", SUM)
• Skif PLUS (Днепропетровская Областная Детская Общественная Организация "Скиф Плюс") - regional organization of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
• Organizatsiya Ukraïns'kykh Skautiv (Organization of Ukrainian Scouts), member of the Order of World Scouts
• YMCA Scouts of Ukraine