''Na Smenu!'' ( rus, На смену!) was a Soviet and Russian

student newspaper A student publication is a media outlet such as a newspaper, magazine, television show, or radio station produced by students at an educational institution. These publications typically cover local and school-related news, but they may also repor ...

published from 1921 to 2009 (with a break in the 1940s). The publication was based in

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...

. In the 1920s ''Na Smenu!'' was associated with the local group of proletarian writers of the same name, who the newspaper editors consulted with. The publication led the extremely aggressive propaganda of atheism and communism. In 1929-1930 the writers group has been "purged from unwelcome elements". The newspaper welcomed industrialization and participated in the organization of

socialist emulation Socialist competition or socialist emulation (, "sotsialisticheskoye sorevnovanie", or , "sotssorevnovanie") was a form of competition between state enterprises and between individuals practiced in the Soviet Union and in other Eastern bloc state ...

s. After the

Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sout ...

(1941–1945) became the exemplary

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...

publication. Student of journalism had their internships there. ''Na Smenu!'' published Komsomol's annual report on its achievements called ''Lenin's Ladder'', articles on blue-collared workers, environment, humor, sports. After the beginning of

Perestroika ''Perestroika'' (; russian: links=no, перестройка, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated wit ...

it changed its focus to economical issues, readers' letters, philosophical articles and even criticism of the local authorities. It was later published by the local

Gazprom PJSC Gazprom ( rus, Газпром, , ɡɐzˈprom) is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg. As of 2019, with sales over $120 billion, it was ranked as the larges ...

department. It was shut down on August 28, 2009 due to the lack of financing.

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