There were about 100 members of the "Young Guard", all young boys and girls – workers, 8th–10th form schoolboys and schoolgirls from Krasnodon and surrounding villages and settlements. Due to the secret nature of the "Young Guard", only people well known to other organization members, and who took the special oath of faithfulness, could become members. Most of them either belonged to the Komsomol or were accepted into Komsomol upon joining the "Young Guard". 15 were members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The most active members and founders of the organization made up the "Staff of the Young Guard": Juliana Gromova, Oleg Koshevoy, Vasily Levashov, Lyubov Shevtsova, Viktor Tretyakevich, Ivan Turkenich, Sergei Tyulenin, and Ivan Zemnukhov.