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''Rabochaya Gazeta'' (Russian: Рабочая Газета,
IPA: ">ɐˈbot͡ɕɪjə ɡɐˈzʲetə lit. 'Workers' Newspaper'; from No. 1 to No. 97 - ''Rabochiy'') was a
Soviet
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newspaper which was an organ of the
Central Committee of the
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
History
The newspaper was founded on March 1, 1922 in
Moscow
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. Its first chief editor was
Konstantin Eremeev
Konstantin Stepanovich Eremeev (Russian: Константи́н Степа́нович Ереме́ев; 6 June 1874, Minsk – 28 January 1931, Moscow) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet military leader, journalist and newspaper editor ...
(1922–1928) and later at various times it was edited by
F. Ya. Kon,
N. I. Smirnov,
K. Maltsev and V. Filatov.
By 1927, the circulation of the newspaper exceeded 300 thousand copies. The newspaper played an important role in the implementation of the Party's policy of mobilizing the forces of the working class of the USSR to fulfill the tasks of socialist construction and in the developing of troops and socialist emulation.
A number of magazines began to appear as supplements to the newspaper, many of them eventually became independent publications. Most famously magazines such as ''
Krokodil
''Krokodil'' ( rus, Крокодил, p=krəkɐˈdʲil, a= Ru-крокодил.ogg, ) was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1922 as the satirical supplement to the '' Workers' Gazette'' (called simply «При ...
'', ''
Rabotnitsa
''Rabotnitsa'' (russian: Работница; en, The Woman Worker) is a women's journal, published in the Soviet Union and Russia and one of the oldest Russian magazines for women and families. Founded in 1914, and first published on Women's Day ...
'', ''
Murzilka'', ''
Soviet Ekran'' and some others.
The last issue of the newspaper was published on January 29, 1932. After 1932, the employees of the closed newspaper moved to the newly formed editorial office of the newspaper "Water Transport", which became the organ of the USSR
People's Commissariat for Water and the Central Committee of the trade union of water workers.
See also
Rabochaya Gazeta (1897)
References
Newspapers published in the Soviet Union
Publications of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist newspapers
Russian-language newspapers published in Russia
Newspapers established in 1922
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Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1922 establishments in Russia