Porkhov Messenger

Before the October Revolution, newspapers in Porkhov County did not appear. The newspaper’s official appearance dates back to March 1918, when the first issue was printed under the name “Red Porkhov”, although several months earlier they had been issued in the form of large leaflets “News of the Porkhov Council of Workers and Peasants' Deputies”.

The first issue of the newspaper had four pages and was printed in the Porkhov printing house on a professional level for that time.

Publications in it were on the verge of a foul, written almost obscenely. The newspaper scourged the enemy not only of the Bolsheviks, but also of the whole Russian people, Bulak-Balakhovich and his army, who destroyed the lives of many Porkhovichs and plundered the Nikandrovsky monastery . All kinds of "world-eaters", oppressing ordinary people, also got it. The newspaper contained information on the revival of the economy, which had been ruined in almost two decades, and notes on ordinary people in town and in the countryside; there was no advertisement.

Later, the newspaper changed its name to Porkhovskaya Pravda and became the organ of the district committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks .

Since 1934, an employee of the newspaper was Ivan Kurchavov, who was sent to her on a Komsomol trip, a well-known Pskov shooter in the future, he worked in the newspaper for three years before being drafted into the army in 1937. In his memoirs, the writer talks about how happy he was, how enthusiastically he worked, and in 3 years he took no more than 20 days off:

In the area they loved their newspaper Porkhovskaya Pravda, which responded to the most pressing events, raised the best of fame and scourged loafers and drunkards.

- Ivan Fedorovich Kurchavov ^[2]

During the war years

During World War II, the newspaper in the district did not come out. However, an underground partisan newspaper Narodny Avenger was published in the Serbolovskie forests of the Novgorod Region, whose chief editor was I.V. Vinogradov . Both the journalist and the future editor-in-chief of Porkhovskaya Pravda A.I. worked in this newspaper. Shabanov. Since May 1942, the Task Force on the North-Western Front launched the publication of the newspaper Porkhovskaya Pravda, an organ of the Porkhov District Party Committee and District Council. ^{[3] [4]}

On the square in the center of the city, where the youth so loved to walk, is now the gallows. Here and elsewhere, Hitler's bandits hanged over 20 people. Almost every day, the Germans shoot Russian people. In their official lists of the city, there are 250 executed and hanged. And how many were ruined by them in the villages, how many were not on the list! The list does not contain a stove-maker in Kholomki who was killed for going out into the street at night. The list does not contain Shura Skarlygin, who was wounded and then killed by a German soldier. For what? For the fact that Shura ran away from the Nazi persecution.

- "Porkhovskaya Pravda", a special issue for workers of the Porkhov region, July 19, 1942 ^[5]

The pre-war employee of the newspaper Porkhovskaya Pravda, Shabanov, became the prototype of Shubin, the hero of the novel of the writer I.F. Kurchavova's “Flowers and Iron” (1963) about the actions of the Pskov partisans based on real events. This Shabanova intelligence unit of the North-Western Front sent to the camp of the enemy, where he, conscientiously with Antonina Mikhailovna Sherpitis, bred in the novel under the name Tank, successfully completed the task, was awarded the order. The prototypes of the characters the writer revealed only in the late 1980s. ^[6]

After the war

With the liberation of the Pskov region, on April 5, 1944, the newspaper Porkhovskaya Pravda resumed work, and N. Mironov was appointed editor-in-chief.

In 1975, the newspaper changed its name to "Communist Labor", in connection with the unification of the Porkhov, Slavkov and Pavsky regions.

In the 1980s, the newspaper, headed by Vasily Sergeyevich Alekseev, adopted the so-called Arkhangelsk school layout, which was then exemplary, and itself became exemplary in the Pskov region.

In the last years of the Soviet period, the circulation approached the 10,000th mark; Only editorial offices in Opochka and Nevel could compete with the newspaper.

In 1988, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the newspaper, a reprint edition of the first issue was issued in a limited edition.

In the early 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR, the name changed to "Porkhovskiy Vestnik", the emblem of the city appeared in the logo. The circulation was halved and since then remains at the same level - 4000 copies.

• April 5, 1944 - March 26, 1945 - N. Mironov
• March 26, 1945 - 1949 - Pishchikova Varvara Alexandrovna
• 1950 - 1957 - Shabanov Alexander Iosifovich
• 1958 - 1959 - Sergeev Vladimir Ivanovich
• 1959 - 1975 - Fedyukhin Peter Ivanovich
• 1975 - 1990 - Vasily Alekseev
• 1990 - 2008 - Pavlov Victor Valentinovich
• 2008 - 2012 - Petrova Svetlana Aleksandrovna
• 2012 - n. at. - Rystsova Ruslana Evgenievna

• Yudin N. - Stages of a Long Way (From the History of the Press of the Pskov Region) // Pskov Truth. - 1967. - May 4. - S. 3.
• Glorious Anniversary // Communist Labor. - 1978. - July 1. - S. 3.
• Holiday in Porkhov: the anniversary of our newspaper // Communist Labor. - 1988. - June 18. - S. 3.
• Kalinichenko V. - Life cast in lines: “Porkhovskiy Vestnik” - 80 years // Porkhovskiy Vestnik. - 1998. - February 28. - S. 3.
• Osokin P. - Times are not chosen: “Porkhovskiy Vestnik” - 80 years // Porkhovskiy Vestnik. - 1998. - June 17. - S. 3.
• Pavlov V. - We are its small particle // Porkhovskiy vestnik. - 2003. - January 10. - S. 3.
• Pavlov V. - We are 85! And we do not feel age! // Porkhov bulletin. - 2003. - April 2. - S. 2.
• Remember everything !: we are 95! // Porkhov bulletin. - 2013. - January 23 (No. 4). - S. 3.

• "Porkhovskiy Vestnik" - 95 years // Official site of the Porkhovskiy district, March 13, 2013
• The newspaper Porkhovskiy Vestnik turns 95 years old // Arguments and Facts . Pskov, March 14, 2013
• Porkhovskiy Vestnik, one of the oldest active publications, is fighting for the reader // GTRK Russia. Pskov , January 20, 2014
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