Soviet Siberia (newspaper)

For the first time, this periodical was published on October 1, 1919, as a socio-political newspaper, which is the printed organ of the Sibrevkom and the Sibburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (B.) ^[2] . In the conditions of the Civil War and the fact that the territory of Siberia was outside the jurisdiction of the Soviet government (the territory was under the control of the White Guard government of A.V. Kolchak ), the editorial office was initially deployed in the Urals, in Chelyabinsk . The first editor of “Soviet Siberia” was V. I. Khotimsky (September 1919 - June 1920), a Marxist , mathematician, and economist ^[2] . The basis for this newspaper was the editorial capacities and human resources of the local Bolshevik publication Stepnaya Kommuna ^[3]

As the units of the 5th Red Army of the Eastern Front moved along the Trans-Siberian Railway , the editorial staff began to move to Siberia. From November 26, 1919 to June 12, 1921, “Soviet Siberia” was published in Omsk ^[2] , then, together with other Siberian publications and government bodies of the Soviet government, together with the Sibrevkom, the editors of “Soviet Siberia” moved to Novo-Nikolaevsk ( Novonikolaevskaya province ) . Here, on June 23, 1921, its 1st “ Ob ” number was released ^[2] . In Novonikolaevsk, D.G. becomes editor of the newspaper. Tumarkin (from June 1921 to 1925). In the future, the most famous editors who headed “Soviet Siberia”, I.I. Shchatsky (October 1925 - March 1929), A.L. Course (until December 1929), I.I. Lyashenko (August 1930 - March 1935), G.T. Timofeev (March 1935 - August 1937), Y.M. Alperovich (August 1937 - February 1938). All the editors listed in the years 1935-1939, during the mass Stalinist repressions in the USSR , were arrested by the NKVD , repressed and executed ^[2] .

December 15, 1922 , in order to increase the circulation of the Sovetskaya Sibir newspaper, magazines and publications of the State Publishing House and reduce their cost, Sibrevkom decided: "The 1st and 2nd state printing houses [of the city of Novo-Nikolaevsk] with all personal personnel, equipment and inventory , material and other current assets transferred from the Novonikolayevsk Gubsovnarhoza available Sibgosizdata and edition "Soviet Siberia". Thus, when the newspaper comes the creation of the largest printing base, who later became the same name ed ments "Soviet Siberia" . The newspaper on behalf Sibrevkoma becomes a propaganda mouthpiece for the Communist government for the whole of Siberia.

With the reform of regionalization and the abolition in Soviet Russia of all former volosts , counties and provinces in favor of new districts, regions and territories, a gigantic Siberian Territory was formed in Siberia with the administrative center (capital) in Novosibirsk (formerly Novo-Nikolaevsk ). The newspaper becomes the main organ of party and Soviet agitation, propaganda and information throughout the territory. The newspaper begins to be delivered almost daily to the railway. transport to all cities of Siberia, as well as airplanes to inaccessible settlements, for example, to the taiga corners of the Tomsk, Narym and Turukhansk districts.

During the reform of Sibkray in the West Siberian Territory ( 1930 ), the newspaper became the main ideological political publication of the now Zapsibkom of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Zapsibkrai Executive Committee. During these years, the newspaper became a chronologist of the events of the dispossession of the peasantry in Siberia, collectivization and industrialization , as well as campaigns on educational program , the elimination of church influence and the fight against "enemies of the people . " Moreover, at the same time, the newspaper became a platform for literary experiments and sample testing of many young Soviet writers, such as, for example, Georgy Markov . The sources of "Soviet Siberia" were prominent Bolshevik leaders, journalists and propagandists E.M. Yaroslavsky , V.D. Vilensky-Sibiryakov , V.D. Wegman , S.I. Kanatchikov, I.N. Stukov, M.I. Frumkin, P.I. Vinokurov and others, who were part of the first editorial boards. In 1920-1922, the future academician and diplomat I.M. collaborated with the editors . Maisky , writer Sun Ivanov and many others.

in the 1920s and 1930s the editorial board released many applications, patronized important construction sites, such as Sibkombayn and Kuznetskstroy . In 1931-1932 even special editions in English were issued because it had established links with the newspapers of the English and French Communists.

In the second half of the 1930s. more and more often, among the reports on successes on the labor front, the newspaper appeared information about the real battles of the flaring World War II : “We are with you, Spain”, “If the war is tomorrow”, “We are peaceful people, but our armored train ...”.

With the abolition of Zapsibkray and the creation of the Novosibirsk Region (1937), the newspaper loses the status of a Siberian publication, it is an organ of the Novosibirsk regional committee of the CPSU (b) and the Novosibirsk regional executive committee.

During the Great Patriotic War, the editors of the newspaper were A. A. Babayants (April 1940 - March 1943) and A. A. Kondakov (March 1943 - September 1949).

Soviet Siberia sent 17 of its journalists to the front, of which 13 did not return to the editorial office. Newspapers wrote about the heroism of women and adolescents who replaced men, maintained a high morale, showed the patriotism of Soviet people with concrete examples, and helped the front with all that was possible. Journalists of the region and rabelselkors raised 252,047 rubles for the link of the fighters named after the 25th anniversary of “Soviet Siberia” , transferring planes to part of their fellow countryman - A.I. Pokryshkina . Many years after the war, when the defense enterprises were declassified, the newspapers of Novosibirsk named the numbers of the rear feat - how much the city and the region gave fighters, shells, equipment, horses, uniforms, bread ...

In the status of the Novosibirsk regional party-political and public mass (organ of the regional committee of the CPSU and regional executive committee) newspaper operated until depoliticization, until 1991, when the CPSU in Russia was abolished by decree of the President of the RSFSR B. N. Yeltsin .

Since 1991, “Soviet Siberia” is an independent socio-political publication of the Novosibirsk Region , a regional newspaper.

The editors consider the newspaper’s status as “the most authoritative and informed press in Siberia” as its mission. However, since the beginning of the 21st century, publication materials have been characterized as publications “looking from Novosibirsk”. These views, by virtue of the economic laws of organizing editorial offices and publishing, can no longer fully capture the situation either in Siberia as a whole or in the regions adjacent to the Novosibirsk region. The publication has become local, Novosibirsk .

Circulation, imprint

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (09/30/1969)

• Electronic copies of “Soviet Siberia” in the guide of the National Library of Russia “Newspapers on and off the net”
• The story of the appearance of the newspapers "Chelyabinsk Worker" and "Soviet Siberia"
• “The oldest newspaper” (the history of the formation of “Soviet Siberia”, author T.I. Petrova, 01/10/2014)
• Newspaper issue August 5, 1939.