NIKOLAENKO Natalia Ivanovna

As the Director of the Museum of the Order of Friendship of Peoples "Young Guard", she conducts activities aimed at legitimizing the russian occupation of Ukrainian territories through the implementation of federal cultural and educational projects.
In February 2025, Nikolayenko took part in the program "Morning of Donbas" on the occupation authorities' TV channel "Luhansk 24", which broadcasts in the occupied territory of Luhansk region. Among other things, on the program, Nikolayenko noted that the accession of the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk region to russia "is a holiday, a return to your homeland."
In 2024, Nikolayenko received a medal "For Merit" of the first degree from the so-called "Ministry of Culture of the luhansk people's republic" for "significant personal contribution to the spiritual and moral education of the younger generation, as well as in connection with the celebration of the day of the luhansk people's republic."
At the end of 2024, she took part in the republican forum "Young Guard" in the temporarily occupied Berdiansk. The forum was organized by the Ministry of Youth Policy of the so-called "luhansk people's republic", the state budgetary institution of the so-called "luhansk people's republic" "House of Youth" and the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs. During an interview at the forum, Nikolayenko stated that "now the members of the ‘SVO’ are showing heroism like their great-grandfathers."
In June 2023, Nikolayenko took part in the all-russian forum "Museum Routes of russia" together with more than 40 representatives of museums of the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.
The Young Guard Museum, led by Nikolaienko, systematically cooperates with the youth military-patriotic organization