When did the first issue of the newspaper Pravda come out? The newspaper's story is true. The Great Patriotic War

Previously the daily newspaper of the Communist Party (RSDLP (b), RCP (b), VKP (b), CPSU). Founded by V.I. Lenin. It was the most widespread and popular Soviet newspaper. Published three times a week. Circulation in June 2009 - 100,300 copies.

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Before the revolution

The first issue of the newspaper "Pravda"

Pravda began to be published by decision of the 6th All-Russian (Prague) Conference of the RSDLP (January 1912) in response to the workers’ desire to have their own daily newspaper. No. 1 of Pravda was published in St. Petersburg on April 22 (May 5), 1912; from April 22 (May 5), 1914, this day was celebrated as a holiday of the working press, and since 1922 annually as Press Day. "Pravda" was a mass, daily, legal workers' newspaper, the de facto organ of the Bolshevik Party (the central organ was in 1908-17 a newspaper published abroad and distributed illegally in Russia). When creating Pravda, the party relied on the experience of many illegal and legal newspapers - and others. The actual editor and head of the newspaper was. He determined its direction, took care of the selection of the editorial staff and team of authors, and developed the structure of the newspaper. About 300 works of Lenin were published on the pages of Pravda in 1912-14 alone. Publishers of Pravda and its active employees There were Bolsheviks - deputies of the 4th State Duma: A. E. Badaev, M. K. Muranov, G. I. Petrovsky, F. N. Samoilov, N. R. Shagov. Among the organizers, editors, and employees of Pravda were N. N. Baturin, A. S. Bubnov, A. I. Vinokurov, S. S. Danilov, M. E. Egorov, K. S. Eremeev, B. I Ivanov, M. I. Kalinin, E. I. Quiring, N. K. Krupskaya, N. V. Krylenko, S. V. Malyshev, L. R. Menzhinskaya, V. R. Menzhinsky, L. M. Mikhailov , V. M. Molotov, S. M. Nakhimson, V. I. Nevsky, D. Ya. Odintsov, M. S. Olminsky, N. I. Podvoisky, N. G. Poletaev, E. F. Rozmirovich, M A. Savelyev, K. N. Samoilova, Ya. M. Sverdlov, N. A. Skrypnik, P. I. Stuchka, A. I. Ulyanova-Elizarova, G. L. Shidlovsky, . A. M. Kollontai, I. F. Armand, F. A. Artem (Sergeev), L. N. Stal, and Yu. M. Steklov regularly wrote to Pravda from abroad. A permanent contributor to Pravda, its poet was D. Bedny. The literary department of the newspaper was headed by M. Gorky in 1912-14.

Pravda was published with funds from voluntary contributions from workers, many of whom were its active employees, correspondents and distributors. More than 16 thousand work correspondence was published in Pravda in 1912-14. The newspaper had an average circulation of 40 thousand, and in some months - up to 60 thousand copies. daily.

Photo of the logos of newspapers under the names of which the Pravda newspaper was published.‎

In 1912-14, Pravda played a major role in the propaganda of Bolshevik slogans and tactics of combining illegal and legal forms of party work among the masses, in the struggle against the Menshevik liquidators, Trotskyists and other opportunists, in the organizational cohesion and political education of the working class. Pravda published correspondence about the progress of the proletarian struggle in various cities of the country and the so-called factory denunciations - letters about the working and living conditions of workers. All this contributed to the development of the mass proletarian movement. Pravda also published materials about the life of the village, wrote about the need to confiscate all landowners' lands in favor of the peasants, called on all layers of workers under the leadership of the working class to fight against the autocracy, against social and national oppression.

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V.I. Lenin reads the newspaper “Pravda”

After the overthrow of tsarism, Pravda began to appear on March 5 (18), 1917, as an organ of the Central Committee and the St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP (b). Upon returning from abroad on April 5 (18), 1917, Lenin joined the editorial board. The editorial board of Pravda in March - July 1917 at various times included Eremeev, Kalinin, Muranov, Olminsky, Stalin and others. The editorial secretary was M. I. Ulyanova. The newspaper propagated the strategy and tactics of the Bolshevik Party, carried out extensive ideological and educational work, consistently revealed the anti-people essence of the bourgeois Provisional Government, exposed the opportunism of the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries, and mobilized the masses to prepare and carry out the socialist revolution. Pravda published the most important documents and materials of the party, the works of Lenin (from March to October 25, 1917 - 207 of his works). The circulation reached 85-90 thousand copies. On July 5 (18), 1917, the editorial office was destroyed by cadets; in July - October, Pravda, persecuted by the bourgeois Provisional Government, was published under the name “Pravda Leaflet”, “Worker and Soldier”, “Proletarian”, “Worker”, "Work Path". On October 27 (November 9), 1917, the newspaper again began to be published under the name “Pravda” as the central organ of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b). Since March 16, 1918, Pravda has been published in Moscow.

After the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Pravda published the most important decisions of the Communist Party and the Soviet government, reports and articles by Lenin, which determined the tasks of building the world's first socialist state (from October 25 (November 7), 1917 to mid-January 1923 - 345 Lenin works).

Civil War

During the Civil War of 1918-20, the main task of Pravda was to mobilize the masses to fight the united forces of international and domestic counter-revolution, and after the end of the war - to fight economic devastation, to restore industry and Agriculture. At all stages of the development of Soviet society, Pravda was the party’s weapon in the struggle for the implementation of its strategic, tactical and organizational tasks, for the purity of Marxist-Leninist teaching, for the implementation of plans for economic construction, and for raising the material and cultural level of the working people.

In the 30s of the XX century

During the pre-war five-year plans (1929-40), Pravda carried out a great deal of organizational work to develop socialist competition, promote shock movements, the Stakhanov movement, and educate workers in a communist attitude towards work. Field editors of Pravda worked at major construction sites (Stalingrad Tractor Plant, Gorky Automobile Plant, Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station and others). Pravda made an outstanding contribution during the years of collectivization of agriculture to the struggle to strengthen collective farms, MTS and state farms. Pravda propagated the great principles of the Soviet Union. democracy, involving all workers in governing the country. Pravda played a significant role in the implementation of the cultural revolution in the USSR, systematically covering development issues public education, literature and art, publishing the best works of Soviet writers. Major Soviet scientists - I.V. Michurin, S.I. Vavilov, O. Yu. Shmidt, D.N. Pryanishnikov, I.M. Gubkin, writers and poets - M. Gorky, V. V. Mayakovsky, M, A. Sholokhov, A. A. Fadeev, A. S. Serafimovich, V. V. Vishnevsky, A. A. Surkov, essays and feuilletons by A. I. Kolosov, M. E. Koltsov were regularly published , D.I. Zaslavsky. Paying main attention to issues of economic development, Pravda at the same time called for strengthening the defense capability of the USSR, instilled patriotism and proletarian internationalism, high political vigilance among Soviet people, exposed fascism, and fought against imperialist warmongers.

The Great Patriotic War

Text of J.V. Stalin’s speech on the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, published in the newspaper Pravda

During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, Pravda was an ardent agitator and organizer of the nationwide struggle against the fascist aggressors. Through Pravda, the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks addressed the people and the army, setting before them urgent tasks related to the war. The newspaper brought to the consciousness of the masses Lenin's ideas about the defense of the socialist Fatherland, the slogans of the party, published speeches by the leaders of the party and the Soviet government, and Soviet military leaders. The oldest leaders of the party spoke on the pages of Pravda - V. A. Karpinsky, F. Ya. Kon, G. M. Krzhizhanovsky, D., Z. Manuilsky, N. A. Semashko, E. D. Stasova, E. M. Yaroslavsky, prominent figures of the international communist and labor movement - G., K. Gottwald, D. Ibarruri, V. Pick, P. Tolyatti, M. Thorez, W. Ulbricht. Pravda published reports from the Sovinformburo, materials about international and domestic events, essays about the heroism of soldiers and partisans, the labor exploits of workers and collective farmers, the patriotic deeds of Soviet people, and documents about the atrocities of the Nazis. The circulation of Pravda was increased by one and a half times; a number of defense plants had mobile newspaper editorial offices; dozens of its employees were at the front as special correspondents - P. A. Lidov, V. M. Kozhevnikov, B. N. Polevoy, S. A. Borzenko. Soviet writers presented essays and literary works in Pravda - A. N. Tolstoy, M. A. Sholokhov, K. A. Fedin, A. A. Fadeev, V. P. Stavsky, K. M. Simonov, A. E. Korneychuk, B. L. Gorbatov, A. T. Tvardovsky, S. Ya. Marshak, I. G. Erenburg, with a political caricature - Kukryniksy (M. V. Kupriyanov, P. N. Krylov, N. A . Sokolov), B. E. Efimov.

Post-war years

The newspaper "Pravda" in the 70s of the XX century.

After the victory Soviet Union During the Great Patriotic War, Pravda widely covered the struggle of the Soviet people for the restoration and further development of the national economy. A large place in the newspaper was devoted to the formation of the world socialist system, the national liberation movement, peace-loving foreign policy THE USSR. The pages of Pravda published speeches by famous peace fighters - F. Joliot-Curie, J. Bernal, A. Zegers, P. Robson, P. Neruda, N. S. Tikhonov and others. Pravda did a lot of work on propaganda Program of the CPSU adopted by the 22nd Party Congress (1961). Almost 16 thousand newspaper readers participated in the discussion of the project new Program and the Charter of the CPSU; a number of special issues of Pravda were devoted to the disclosure of certain provisions of the CPSU Program.

Chief Editor:

KOMOTSKY Boris Olegovich

Editorial team:

V.P. VISHNYAKOV (executive secretary);

N.M. KOZHANOV;

V.S. SKIN;

T.N. SMIRNOVA.

From the history of the newspaper "Pravda"

The decision to create a newspaper was made by the delegates of the VI All-Russian (Prague) Conference of the RSDLP on the initiative of V.I. Lenin. For many years, as a party leader, he was an ideological inspirer and a regular contributor to Pravda. Thanks to Vladimir Ilyich, she became a real collective propagandist and organizer of the working people of Russia. The newspaper discussed the most important problems in the lives of workers, inspired them to strikes and political protests, conducted open discussions about the role of the proletariat and peasantry in the coming reorganization of society, and was a school of Marxist theory and practice for readers. “Having installed a daily workers’ newspaper,” wrote V.I. Lenin, “the St. Petersburg workers accomplished a major, without exaggeration, historical deed... The creation of Pravda remains an outstanding proof of the consciousness, energy and unity of the Russian workers.”

Pravda began publishing in St. Petersburg. It was here that her first issue was published. The newspaper of the Bolshevik Party immediately began to experience persecution from the tsarist regime. Already at the beginning of July 1914 it was closed. Subsequently, its publication under the original name was resumed after February Revolution. Between 1912 and 1914, the newspaper, regularly banned by censorship, was published under different names: “Working Truth”, “Northern Truth”, “Truda Truth”, “For Truth”, “The Path of Truth”, “Proletarian Truth” and others. I.V. became members of the editorial boards of these newspapers. Stalin, V.M. Molotov, M.S. Olminsky, K.S. Eremeev, F.F. Raskolnikov, V.V. Vorovsky, M.I. Ulyanova, A.V. Lunacharsky. The ideological leadership of the newspaper was carried out by V.I. Lenin, interacting with the editorial staff from emigration.

Pravda persistently exposed feudal-capitalist oppression and fought for the liberation of working people from poverty and lawlessness. The newspaper quickly achieved recognition from revolutionary-minded workers. It was published using their voluntary contributions. Representatives of work collectives were active employees, correspondents and distributors of the newspaper. Thanks to mass support, Pravda had a large circulation for that time. The average circulation of one issue was 40 thousand copies, and in some months it reached 60 thousand.

Pravda played a special role in the propaganda of Bolshevik ideas during the preparation of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Only from March 5 (18) to July 5 (18), 1917, 99 issues of the newspaper were published with a total circulation of about 8 million copies. Its daily circulation during this period was already 85-100 thousand. Pravda was a truly people's newspaper. In March 1917 alone, about 16 thousand rubles were collected for her fund by Russian workers. It was with them that the Trud printing house, which printed the newspaper, was purchased.

During the July crisis, on the orders of the bourgeois Provisional Government, Pravda was destroyed and the printing house premises were seized. But the newspaper was able to continue the fight.

After the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Pravda rightfully began to be considered main newspaper countries. Its pages captured the rich history of our socialist Motherland, great victories and difficulties in building a new society. Lenin's Pravda played a huge role in strengthening the ranks of the party and expanding its ties with the masses at all stages of the heroic biography of the Land of Soviets.

During the Civil War, Pravda became a mouthpiece mobilizing the forces of the revolution to fight foreign intervention. When victory was achieved, the main attention of the newspaper focused on issues of economic construction, on the implementation of the NEP, the fight against illiteracy, the implementation of the GOELRO plan, industrialization and collectivization of the national economy.

Everywhere and everywhere, Pravda journalists, its worker and peasant correspondents were in the thick of things. From Moscow to the very outskirts, they conveyed information about the successes of Soviet power, informed the world about the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station and Magnitka, the Stalingrad Tractor and Gorky Automobile Plants, about the long-distance flights of our heroic pilots and the world records of Stakhanovite shock workers, about the achievements of our science and technology. The newspaper's mobile editorial offices worked at major construction sites. Pravda did a lot of work to develop socialist competition, promote shock work, and instill in the working people a communist attitude towards work. Passionate about creation, the USSR persistently pursued a peace-loving foreign policy. Pravda contributed to this in every possible way, promoting the approaches of the Soviet state, exposing the aggressive policies of imperialist circles.

In the difficult times of the treacherous attack of Hitler's fascism on our Soviet Motherland, “Pravda” was next to every soldier and commander, worker and collective farmer, with every communist and Komsomol member, instilling confidence in our inevitable Victory over the enemy. The party slogan is “Everything for the front, everything for victory!” formed the basis of the daily activities of the newspaper. The best of the best writers and poets were the authors of Pravda during the war. Among them are M. Sholokhov, K. Simonov, V. Vishnevsky, B. Gorbatov, M. Isakovsky, L. Leonov, S. Marshak, S. Mikhalkov, B. Polevoy, S. Sergeev-Tsensky and others. Many of the newspaper's war correspondents laid down their lives in the harsh struggle for our Motherland, for our people.

Already in the difficult first years of the war, as a result of superhuman efforts, a unified, coherent and rapidly growing military economy was created. By the beginning of 1943, it made it possible to eliminate the enemy's superiority in technology and achieve a radical change in the course of the war. Pravda provided enormous assistance to the party in mobilizing the masses to help the front and defeat the enemy.

After the May fireworks of 1945, the winners, together with Pravda, restored our destroyed cities and villages, factories, schools and cultural palaces from the ruins. Having revived the country's national economy, they continued creative construction - they raised virgin soil, conquered the mighty Siberian rivers, and brought closer the space age of mankind. From the pages of the central body of the CPSU, millions of Soviet citizens learned about our victories on the labor front, about the flight of the first Soviet Earth satellite and the space launch of Yuri Gagarin, about the conquest of the North Pole by the nuclear-powered icebreaker "Arktika" and shock Komsomol construction projects.

Over many decades of Russian and Soviet history, Pravda has turned into a heroic chronicle of our people. Step by step, day by day, it contained the experiences of millions of Soviet people. The country worthily celebrated this labor feat of many generations of journalists, editors, proofreaders, photojournalists, workers' correspondents, all those who bore and still bear the proud title of Pravdist. The newspaper's contribution to the cause of socialist construction was recognized with the highest awards of the Soviet state: two Orders of Lenin and the Order of the October Revolution. Many of those who wrote the history of the Great Socialist era glorified their names thanks to the authority of Pravda. They became known to the whole world, to which the newspaper revealed a broad picture of the achievements of our heroic people.

During the period of the destruction of the Soviet Union, Pravda was one of the first to take the blow of the “reformers”. They tried to close the newspaper, reorient it to the needs of the “democratizers,” and force them to abandon their principles. But Lenin’s Pravda and its journalistic staff did not flinch, withstood persecution and persecution, and did not succumb to the promises of local and foreign intermediaries. The Pravdists had to go through dozens of court hearings in order to defend the right to continue to bring the Word of Truth to people in order to regain the status of the main newspaper of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Throughout his biography, “Pravda” is not a simple storyteller about great and dramatic events in the country and the world. She is their active participant, the creator of history. Even today the newspaper brings socialist ideals to the masses, defends the interests of working people, and fights for the establishment of genuine democracy. It continues to maintain an inextricable connection with the fate of the people of a great country and its Communist Party. Pravda serves as the main platform of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, publishes the main documents of the party, explains its position on topical issues modernity, organizes the masses to fight for better life. Together with other national patriotic publications, together with our regional newspapers, Pravda is still in the forefront of fighters for the power of the working people.

Pravda began publishing in St. Petersburg. It was here that her first issue was published. The newspaper of the Bolshevik Party immediately began to experience persecution from the tsarist regime. Already at the beginning of July 1914 it was closed. Subsequently, its publication under the original name was resumed after the February Revolution. Between 1912 and 1914, the newspaper, regularly banned by censorship, was published under different names: “Working Truth”, “Northern Truth”, “Truda Truth”, “For Truth”, “The Path of Truth”, “Proletarian Truth” and others. I.V. became members of the editorial boards of these newspapers. Stalin, V.M. Molotov, M.S. Olminsky, K.S. Eremeev, F.F. Raskolnikov, V.V. Vorovsky, M.I. Ulyanova, A.V. Lunacharsky. The ideological leadership of the newspaper was carried out by V.I. Lenin, interacting with the editorial staff from emigration.

During the July crisis, on the orders of the bourgeois Provisional Government, Pravda was destroyed and the printing house premises were seized. But the newspaper was able to continue the fight.

After the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Pravda rightfully began to be considered the main newspaper of the country. Its pages captured the rich history of our socialist Motherland, great victories and difficulties in building a new society. Lenin's Pravda played a huge role in strengthening the ranks of the party and expanding its ties with the masses at all stages of the heroic biography of the Land of Soviets.

During the period of the destruction of the Soviet Union, Pravda was one of the first to take the blow of the “reformers”. They tried to close the newspaper, reorient it to the needs of the “democratizers,” and force them to abandon their principles. But Lenin’s Pravda and its journalistic staff did not flinch, withstood persecution and persecution, and did not succumb to the promises of local and foreign intermediaries. Through dozens court hearings The Pravdists had to go through this in order to defend the right to continue to bring the Word of Truth to people in order to regain the status of the main newspaper of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Throughout his biography, “Pravda” is not a simple storyteller about great and dramatic events in the country and the world. She is their active participant, the creator of history. Even today the newspaper brings socialist ideals to the masses, defends the interests of working people, and fights for the establishment of genuine democracy. It continues to maintain an inextricable connection with the fate of the people of a great country and its Communist Party. Pravda serves as the main platform of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, publishes the main documents of the party, explains its position on pressing issues of our time, and organizes the masses to fight for a better life. Together with other national patriotic publications, together with our regional newspapers, Pravda is still in the forefront of fighters for the power of the working people.

"Pravda" - Soviet and Russian newspaper, until 1991 - the main daily print media of the CPSU and the most influential printed edition, in fact, is the main newspaper in the USSR. The first issue of the newspaper called Pravda was published on May 5, 1912. At that time, Pravda was not an official organ of the Central Committee of the RSDLP(b); the illegal newspaper Social-Democrat, printed abroad and imported into Russia illegally, was considered such.

The Sixth All-Russian Conference of the RSDLP (b) adopted, on the initiative of Vladimir Lenin, the decision to publish a mass workers' Bolshevik daily newspaper. Money for its publication was collected from factories and factories among workers. The Lena execution accelerated the issue of publishing a workers' newspaper.

Even before this, from October 1908 to April 1912, first in Lvov and then in Vienna, the popular Social Democratic newspaper Pravda was published under the editorship of Trotsky, the international department of which was headed by Joffe.

The publication of a second newspaper with the same name caused sharp controversy, including even an appeal to German socialists as arbitrators, but this did not lead to anything, and the name “Pravda” was retained by Lenin’s newspaper. The newspaper's circulation was about 40 thousand copies, sometimes reaching 60 thousand.

The newspaper clearly followed the ideological line of the government, for example - after the conclusion of the Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact, the newspaper not only stopped all criticism of the German government, but the word “fascism” disappeared from its pages, while at the same time England, France and the USA were declared “the main arsonists war."

The articles and feuilletons of Pravda were equivalent to a government decree or a court verdict. The question of what to publish in Pravda and what not was often decided in the Politburo. Many ideological campaigns - the Stakhanov movement, criticism of Zoshchenko and Akhmatova, the fight against “rootless cosmopolitanism”, the virgin epic - began with the publications of Pravda.

The newspaper's circulation grew and in 1975 reached 10.6 million copies. This was largely explained by the mandatory subscription to party publications for members of the CPSU. Articles, essays and feuilletons published in Pravda were practically orders for the execution and leadership of all party organizations - the entire country.

Pravda published obituaries; from the first page, readers learned about the deaths of Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev and others. Also, the first page of Pravda spoke about the Victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War, about the flight of Yuri Gagarin and many other important events.

The newspaper was published in two editions, intended for different regions of the USSR, taking into account time zones and delivery time from the nearest printing house. The first issue was delivered to the Kalinin region from Moscow, and the second issue arrived to Moscow and the Moscow region.

The main circulation produced in Moscow was produced in the newspaper's own printing house using letterpress printing, but part of the circulation only for Moscow over time began to be printed using the offset method, which significantly improved the quality of photographs.

On April 22 (May 5), 1912, the first issue of the first daily legal workers' newspaper in Russia, created on the initiative ofV. I. Lenina- "Is it true". The newspaper began to be published by decision of the 6th All-Russian (Prague) ConferenceRSDLP, held in January 1912 in response to the workers' desire to have their own daily newspaper.

The actual editor and leader of Pravda was V.I. Lenin. He determined its direction, took care of the selection of the editorial staff and team of authors, and developed the structure of the newspaper. The publishers of Pravda and its active employees were Bolsheviks - deputies of the 4th State Duma: A. E. Badaev, M. K. Muranov, G. I. Petrovsky, F. N. Samoilov, N. R. Shagov.

The purpose of the newspaper was “to illuminate the path of the Russian labor movement with the light of international social democracy, to sow the truth among workers about the friends and enemies of the working class, to stand guard over the interests of the workers’ cause...”.

Pravda was published with funds from voluntary contributions from workers, many of whom were its active employees, correspondents and distributors. Thanks to their massive support, the newspaper published a large circulation for that time - an average of 40 thousand copies, and in some months - up to 60 thousand copies daily.

In 1912-1914. Pravda published correspondence about the progress of the proletarian struggle in various cities of the country, letters about the working and living conditions of workers, and materials about village life. The newspaper wrote about the need to confiscate all landowners' lands in favor of the peasants, called on all layers of workers under the leadership of the working class to fight against the autocracy, against social and national oppression.

Pravda was subjected to constant police persecution. In two years, the newspaper was closed eight times, but continued to be published under other names: “Rabochaya Pravda”, “Northern Pravda”, “Truda Truth”, etc. 8(21) July 1914 the newspaper was closed, its publication resumed on 5(18) March 1917 The Provisional Government continued the policy of persecuting the newspaper; it was again forced to change its names: “Leaflet of Pravda”, “Proletary”, “Worker”, “Worker’s Way”.

On October 27 (November 9), 1917, the Central Organ of the Bolshevik Party began to appear under its former name. Pravda promoted the strategy and tactics of the Bolshevik Party, carried out extensive ideological and educational work, published the most important documents and materials of the party, and the works of Lenin.

With the liquidation of the non-communist press in 1918, Pravda became the main newspaper in the country. The most pressing, topical issues of public policy and public life have always been discussed on its pages.

In 1922, to commemorate the day of publication of the first issue of the Pravda newspaper X The Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) adopted a resolution on the celebration of Press Day on May 5th.

In 1945 the newspaper was awardedOrder of Leninfor outstanding achievements in mobilizing the Soviet people to build a socialist society and defend the Motherland during the Great Patriotic War. The 50th and 60th anniversaries of Pravda were marked by the presentation of the second Order of Lenin andOrder of the October Revolution .

In 1975, the newspaper was published with a total one-time circulation of 10.6 million copies, printed simultaneously in 42 cities from pages received via phototelegraph communication channels or from matrices delivered by plane, the newspaper was subscribed to in more than 120 foreign countries.

In the early 1990s. Pravda suspended and resumed its publications several times.

Since April 1997, the newspaper began to be published as an organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which was confirmed by a special resolution of the IV Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

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