Volga commune

On March 9 (22), 1907, the Samara governor Vladimir Yakunin issued permission to a citizen of the city of Orsk, M. D. Spiridonov, to publish the daily newspaper Priboy in Samara. The actual owner of the newspaper was the Samara committee of the RSDLP . For criticizing the authorities after the release of the 34th issue on May 3, 1907, the newspaper was closed. After the closure of Surf, the Samara Bolsheviks began to issue the weekly newspaper Zarya Volga. V. I. Lenin and members of the Bolshevik faction of the State Duma actively collaborated with the “Dawn of the Volga Region”. They read The Dawn of the Volga Region not only in Samara, but also in other cities - in Syzran , Simbirsk , Penza , Ufa , Orenburg , Kazan , Sormovo . After the February coup d'etat of 1917 , from March 17 in Samara the Volga Pravda of the Samara Committee of the RSDLP (b) began to appear. At first she went out 2 times a week, and from May 30, 1917 she became daily. From June 8 to October 1918, the newspaper was not published in Samara. The newspaper was co-edited by Valerian Kuibyshev . Actively collaborated with her Nikolai Shvernik , Alexander Maslennikov and other revolutionaries. Such well-known writers as Artem Vesely and Alexander Neverov , the author of the story “Tashkent - the city of bread”, worked and published in the newspaper. "Volga truth" spread throughout the Volga region, penetrated the front. Among its authors during the revolutionary period are Mikhail Frunze , Dmitry Furmanov , Demyan Bedny , Alexander Serafimovich .

On November 10, 1918, the Samara regional committee of the RCP (b) decided to merge the Volga Pravda newspapers of the Samara regional committee of the RCP (b) and the Soldier, Worker Peasant of the Council of Workers' Deputies, the garrison Council of Peasant Deputies and factory committees, and on December 7, 1918 years, the newspaper came out as the "Commune". Its founders were the Samara sponge of the RCP (b), the provincial government and the executive committee of the City Council.

After the creation of the Middle Volga region in May 1928 (which included the Samara province), from September 1928 the newspaper became known as the "Middle Volga commune". During this period, the editorial office appeared aircraft "SP". The most popular in the newspaper was the heading "On board the aircraft" Mid-Volga Commune. "

In connection with the reorganization of the Middle Volga Region into the Territory in 1929, on December 6, 1929, the Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks assigned the name Volzhskaya Kommuna to the newspaper. Its editor was Philip Ksenofontov, subsequently repressed and rehabilitated. With him, the newspaper changed its name for the last time and has survived to this day as the Volga Commune.

During the years of World War II, many journalists of the Volga Commune went to the front as volunteers. In the editorial office there is a memorial plaque with the names of the “Communards” who fell in the war. During the war, many political and state figures, writers, scientists, and journalists collaborated with a newspaper published in the "spare capital". Frequent guests in the editorial office were Alexey Tolstoy , Mikhail Sholokhov , Ilya Erenburg , published in VK. On April 29, 1957, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR decreed: “In connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the first issue of the Kuybyshev regional newspaper Volzhskaya Kommuna and noting its revolutionary merits, as well as fruitful work to mobilize workers for the successful fulfillment of the tasks of communist construction, to award the newspaper "Volga Commune" Order of the Red Banner of Labor . " Orders and medals were awarded to 11 editorial staff.

During the construction of the Kuybyshevsky waterworks at the construction site, the VK office was organized. The newspaper closely monitored the construction and development of facilities at the VAZ . According to the results of the All-Russian contest for the best coverage of agricultural topics in 2003, the editorial office of VK was awarded a VAZ-2105 car.

• Century "VK". 1907-2007. A newspaper is like a mirror of life. / Comp. A.G. Ardatov, S.M. Golyshkov, E.P. Chepurnykh. - Samara: Samara Printing House, 2006.
• Glitter feathers. Favorites. 1907-2007. - Samara: Samara Printing House, 2007.

• Official site "Volga commune"
• Electronic copies of the Volga Commune in the guide of the National Library of Russia "Newspapers on and Off the Net"
• Electronic copies of the Volga Commune on the website of the Electronic Library of Samara Public Library