Lugansk truth

• The first name of the newspaper “Donetsk Proletarian” the first issue was published on June 14, 1917, the founder and first editor Kliment Voroshilov signed it to the world. The newspaper was an organ of the Lugansk Committee of the RSDLP . She was daily.

• The second name of the newspaper "Lugansk revolutionary messenger" since 1918 .

• The third name of the newspaper "Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Communist" since 1919 . Organ of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Committee of the Communist Party (b) . Daily newspaper.

• The fourth name of the newspaper Izvestia Revkom from December 1919 is.

• The fifth name of the Izvestia newspaper of the Donetsk Provincial Revolutionary Committee and the Bureau of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since 1920, No. 1 of January 16

• The sixth name of the newspaper "All-Russian Stoker" with number 1 from July 18, 1920 . The organ of the Dongubrevkom, the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party (b) and the Provincial Executive Committee.

• The seventh name of the newspaper "Luganskaya Pravda" with number 108 of December 10, 1920 . The organ of the Lugansk Party Committee.

After the liberation of Lugansk in December 1919, the newspaper was printed in the former printing house of I. S. Zhitomirsky on Pochtovaya Street, its circulation was 800 copies. At the end of 1921, with the onset of cold weather, steam heating was turned on in the printing house, but pipes broke, and then the typesetters had to work in severe frost. Productivity fell by half, as it took more time to warm up than to work. The printing house was offered a new room on Uspenskaya street.

By the end of 1923, the circulation of the newspaper was 5 thousand copies. and she went out on two newspaper pages. By this time, the information provided in the newspaper had ceased to satisfy the needs of Luhansk residents, and there were no funds to expand the newspaper to 4 pages. Its circulation fell from 5 thousand to one and a half, and in February 1924 the newspaper was forced to close. Again, “Luganskaya Pravda” began to appear only six months later - from the month of August. Its volume was 4 pages (the printing house was on Karl Marx Street - the former Kazan). By 1926, 130 people worked in the printing house, the newspaper consisted of 5 people.

Since 04/01/1927, the newspaper has been printed on 8 pages and its circulation is 16 thousand copies. At this time, efforts were made to increase the circulation of the newspaper. By the end of that year, it was increased to 20 thousand.

From September 20, 1930 to November 5, 1933 , as well as in 1945, the newspaper was published in Ukrainian .

• The eighth name of the newspaper Voroshilovgradskaya Pravda (1935-1942, 1943-1958, and from 1970-1990).

In 1935, Lugansk was renamed Voroshilovgrad, in accordance with this, from 1935 to 1942 the newspaper was called "Voroshilovgrad truth." The daily newspaper of the city committee, city council and city council.

In 1942 , during the German occupation of Lugansk , the newspaper stopped its publication.

In 1943 - 1958 restores its output (the first military release - No. 196 of November 24, 1943 ).

In 1958 , the region was again renamed Lugansk . In 1958 - 1960 - "Lugansk truth." The body of the Lugansk regional committee, city committee of the Communist Party and the regional Council of Workers' Deputies.

Since 1990, the newspaper has been called Luganskaya Pravda .

In April 2014, in connection with the revolutionary processes of the proclamation of the LPR that began in Lugansk, the newspaper stopped publishing. Its latest editor, Oksana Laschenova, was captured by Ukrainian punishers from the Aidar battalion ^[3] . The building of Luganskaya Pravda was bombed during the summer shelling of the city by Ukrainian punishers.

In June 2019 , a special issue dedicated to the centenary of the creation of the newspaper was published in Lugansk ^[4]

• Certificate of honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR ;
• Certificate of Merit of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR;
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor ;
• other awards ^{[1] [2]} .

In 2010, the team of Luganskaya Pravda totaled 14 people, including 5 journalists and 1 photojournalist ^[2] .

• Klim Voroshilov - the first editor (nominal) since June 1917
• Joseph Kamensky - Actual Editor since June 1917
• Z.A. Brodyansky - from October 1917
• Joseph Kamensky - Executive Editor until December 2, 1922
• Moses Efimovich Ravich - from December 3, 1922
• B. Levy - until May 22, 1925
• N.Maksimova May 23 - June 25, 1925
• Alexey Pavlovich Selivanovsky - executive editor from June 26, 1925 to 1926
• Reznikov - until October 1927
• Mikhail D. Garin - from October 1927 to May 15, 1928
• Hanan L. Zatuchny - from May 16, 1928
• E.P. Orlov - July 1929
• Kalyuzhny - until October 1930

• Ivan Pavlushchenko - editor until 1958.
• Grigory Egorovich Kononykh 1958-1975.
• Pavel Nikolaevich Evteev 1975-1985.
• Eduard Nikolaevich Nikolaev 1985-1993.
• Vladimir Vladimirovich Mikhaylichenko - editor in the 1990s.
• Oksana Laschenova - editor until 2014.

• Materials on "Lugansk truth" (Russian) (inaccessible link) . Of. newspaper website. Date of treatment October 11, 2013. Archived September 29, 2013.
• Lugansk truth (Lugansk and Lugansk region) (Russian) . Date of treatment October 11, 2013.