Finnish newspaper

The Finnish newspaper is a Russian-language newspaper published in Helsinki from 1900 to 1917.

Governor-General Bobrikov founded the Finnish Newspaper as the official printing organ of the Russian government on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Finland . The task of the body was to promote both the administrative accession of Finland to Russia and the convergence of the Finnish and Russian peoples. The publication was financed from the budget of the Governor-General and the state, as well as through official announcements, which, in addition to Finnish and Swedish newspapers, were published in the Russian-language newspaper.

At the initial stages, the Finnish Newspaper was engaged in active propaganda, but since 1905, after general strikes , the number of subscribers has decreased and the importance of the newspaper has lost. Gradually, the newspaper turned into a "living corpse", since only a part of the Russian population living in Finland began to receive it. The publication of the newspaper ceased after the February revolution .

The office of the Governor General was engaged in the publication of the newspaper. Initially, the newspaper was published three times, starting from 1901 - four times, from 1913 - five times and from 1914 - six times a week. The largest circulation of the newspaper fell in 1904 - 1180 copies. In addition, toll free numbers were distributed to officials. Until 1904, an application was published in Finnish - the weekly Suomen Sanomat ( Finnish. Finnish News).

Editors : I. A. Bazhenov (1901-1908); V.P. Lebedev (1907-1911); V. Semenov (1911); B.V. Dobryshin (1911); J. M. Grosman (1911, 1913, 1914); A.V. Efimov (1911-1913); V.P. Krokhin (1913-1914); N. F. Rozhdestvensky (1914-1916); B.V. Starkov (1914); A.A. Bashmakov (1914-1915); P. Schweikovsky (1915-1916).