''Trud'' ( bg, Труд, en, Labor), is a

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. The newspaper's first issue came out on 1 March 1936, making it one of the oldest Bulgarian newspapers still in existence. From 3 January 1994 to 31 December 2008 it was known as ''Dneven Trud'' (Дневен Труд, ''Daily Labor'').75 години от излизането на бр.1 на в. "Труд"
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History

The first issue of the newspaper came on 1 March 1936 and it was the first weekly newspaper in

. It was delivered only to the big towns

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, Plovdiv,

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in the first year. From 20 October 1944, the name of the newspaper was changed to "Flag of the Labor". On 15 September 1946, the newspaper took back its name. From 3 January 1994, it became an independent Bulgarian newspaper. ''Trud'' was a syndicate organ until 1992 when it became a private-owned daily. Its

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is Tosho Toshev. The owner of ''Trud'' which is published in

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is WAZ. In 2001, ''Trud'' had a circulation of 300,000 copies, making it the largest-circulation newspaper in Bulgaria at the time.

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* 1936 establishments in Bulgaria Publications established in 1936 Daily newspapers published in Bulgaria Bulgarian-language newspapers {{Bulgaria-newspaper-stub