Humanitarian Foundation

Initially, the newspaper was published under the name "Express information", since August 1989 - under the name "Center", since 1990 - "The Humanitarian Foundation". Circulation ranged from 25 to 5,000 copies; mostly - about 500 copies. For all this time, approximately with weekly intervals, 201 issues were released. 202nd number remained in the wording.

It was one of the first newspapers registered in the USSR, created by an individual, not counting the newspaper Julian Semenov . And during the famous events in August 1991, it was almost the only newspaper published in Moscow, despite the ban. On the evening of August 19, the poet Herman Lukomnikov (Boniface) spread it on the steps of the White House [1]

Financing of the newspaper and organizational support was provided by the charity organization " All-Union Humanitarian Fund named after A.S. Pushkin "under the leadership of Commercial Director Leonid Borisovich Zhukov (President - Victor Korkia , Chairman of the Board - Mikhail Romm).

Editorial staff at different times: Veronika Bode , Svetlana Gandurina , Leonid Zhukov , Mityushov Pavel , Dmitry Kuzmin , Alexander Egorov , Andrey Uritsky , Evelina Rakitskaya , Rada Tsapina (Anchevskaya) , Larisa Tumasheva, Anna Maximova, Andrey Belashkin , Victoria Balon, Olga Sokolova , Vladimir Tuchkov , Elena Tartakovskaya.

The content of the newspaper is devoted to contemporary art in all its manifestations - mainly Russian-language literature. They read the newspaper and published in it authors who experienced certain difficulties in contacts with the official, biased part of the artistic environment of that time. “When you read this newspaper, you see what young people are interested in in literature, painting or music,” Joseph Brodsky ^[2] noted at the time.

In April 1991, the Humanitarian Foundation defended the young Moscow artist Anatoly Osmolovsky from the ETI group, whose members laid out their favorite Russian word of three letters with their bodies on the pavement of Red Square ^[1] .

Currently, the newspaper’s archive is posted on the Submarine website. In the same place works of authors of the newspaper and new materials are published.

• Russian State Library , Moscow
• Library of Foreign Literature , Moscow
• Library of Congress , Washington
• British Library , London
• Prominent figures of modern Russian-speaking culture, such as V. Aksyonov , I. Brodsky , V. Voinovich , A. Voznesensky and many others. others
• Russian and foreign critics, art historians, European centers of Slavic studies ^[1] .

• In November 2008, the evening “History of the Humanitarian Foundation newspaper” took place in the Moscow club “Ulitsa OGI”. Participants in the event were Evgeny Bunimovich, Veronika Bode, German Lukomnikov (Boniface), Lyudmila Vyazmitinova , Dmitry Kuzmin, Pavel Mityushev, Igor Sid, Mikhail Romm, Andrey Belashkin, Rada Anchevskaya ^[3] .

• Submarine .
• The new version of the site of the Humanitarian Foundation .
• Community in LJ .
• Newspaper "Humanitarian Foundation": list of contents / Comp. A. Uritsky // New Literary Review . 2017. No. 146.
• Newspaper "Humanitarian Foundation": a list of content. End / Comp. A. Uritsky // New Literary Review . 2017. No. 147.