''Pionerskaya Pravda'' (Пионе́рская Пра́вда) is an all-Russian newspaper. Initially it was an all-Union newspaper of the

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. Its name may be translated as "Truth for Young Pioneers".

History

The newspaper was founded March 6, 1925 in

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and published under the name ''School Pravda'' and later under ''Pioneer Truth''. Nikolai Bukharin was the first editor of the newspaper. Different poets and artists, like

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, Evgeny Petrov and

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, cooperated with the newspaper. On March 6, 1927, the newspaper became part of the Central and Moscow Committees of the All-Union Young Communist League. From 1958, it formed part of the Central Committee of the All-Union Young Communist League and the Central Council of the All-Union Pioneers' Organization. From February 4, 1928 a newspaper was published twice a week, and since October 3, 1928 it has been published three times a week. The newspaper became a weekly printed body of the Moscow RKSM Committee. In the 1970s and 1980s its circulation approached 10,000,000 (almost every child in the Soviet Union had a subscription). Its title followed the name of the main Soviet newspaper of the time, ''

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'', as did multiple other newspapers. In 1991, following the collapse of the

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, the newspaper was reorganized and became a national newspaper for children and adolescents. The newspaper continues to exist, but now it is not associated with Young Pioneers, and the circulation is greatly reduced.

Chief editors

* М. Stremyakov (1925-1926) * В. Lyadova (1927-1930) * Н. Lyalin (1931) * Г. Soldiers (1932-1933) * А. Stroyev (1933) * А. Gusev (1934-1935) * А. Stroyev (1935-1938) * Н. Danilov (1938-1940) * И. Andreev (1940-1945) * В. Gubarev (1945-1947) * В. Semyonov (1947-1949) * З. Tumanova (1949-1952) * С. Potemkin (1952-1953) * Т. Matveeva (1953-1961) * Н. Chernova (1961-1982) * О. I. Grekova (1983-2006) * М. Barannikov (since 2006)

Awards and recognitions

In 1995 ''Pionerskaya Pravda'' was awarded the Red Banner of Labor, in 1950 the

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and in 1985 the

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Other Pioneer Newspapers

Similar newspapers were published in other languages of the USSR: as of 1974, six newspapers in Russian and 22 in other languages.

References

External links

The official site of ''Pionerskaya Pravda''
(in

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