The Vanguard of Red Youth (AKM; Russian: Авангард красной молодёжи; Avangard krasnoy molodyozhi), acronymed after an AK-47 variant) is a radical Russian socialist youth group. Its website describes it as an "independent youth organization, entering the all-Russian public political motion." Its "territory of action" is Russia, which it insists is still the heart and soul of "the republic of the USSR."