''Nachrichten'' ('News') was a

Volga German The Volga Germans (, ; ) are ethnic Germans who settled and historically lived along the Volga River in the region of southeastern European Russia around Saratov and close to Ukraine nearer to the south. Recruited as immigrants to Russia in th ...

communist newspaper, published between 1918 and 1941.Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen
"НАХРИХТЕН"
/ref> ''Nachrichten'' was the organ of the Communist Party in the

Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (; ), abbreviated as the Volga German ASSR, was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics, autonomous republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR. Its capital c ...

. The newspaper was founded under the name ''Vorwärts'' ('Forward') by the German Commissariat in

Saratov Saratov ( , ; , ) is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River. Saratov had a population of 901,361, making it the List of cities and tow ...

in March 1918. ''Vorwärts'' was the first Bolshevik newspaper directed towards the Volga German colonists. It carried the by-line 'Organ of the Socialists in the German Volga territory' (''Organ der Sozialisten des deutschen Wolgagebiets'').Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen. Schiller, Franz P.,
Literatur zur Geschichte und Volkskunde der deutschen Kolonien in der Sowjetunion für die Jahre 1764 – 1926
' The name was changed to ''Nachrichten'' in June 1918, as the Bolsheviks wanted to avoid any association with the SPD organ '' Vorwärts''.Heitman, Sidney.
Germans from Russia in Colorado
'. Fort Collins, Colo: Western Social Science Association, 1978. pp. 36, 43 The newspaper used Gothic font, but switched to Latin font sometime in the mid-1930s. In April 1919 the publication ''Kommunist'' ('Communist', published from Katharinenstadt since 1916 and initially named ''Kolonist'') was merged into ''Nachrichten''.Warkentin, Julia-Maria.
Nelly Däs – Das Leben und Werk der russlanddeutschen Schriftstellerin
'. München: GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2008. p. 11 In the beginning ''Nachrichten'' was published alongside ''

Die Wacht ''Die Wacht'' ('The Guard') was a Volga German The Volga Germans (, ; ) are ethnic Germans who settled and historically lived along the Volga River in the region of southeastern European Russia around Saratov and close to Ukraine nearer to the ...

'', but ''Die Wacht'' was closed down in June 1919.Bourret, Jean-François.
Les Allemands de la Volga: histoire culturelle d'une minorité, 1763–1941
'. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1986. p. 419 In October 1918 (after the disbanding of the German Commissariat), ''Nachrichten'' became the organ of the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) Regional Committee ('' obkom'') of the Volga German Labour Commune. The newspaper had a circulation of around 2,500 at this point. It was printed by the Shelgorm & Co. Typographical Association in Saratov. In mid-1919 the printing of ''Nachrichten'' was taken over by the ''Staats-Verlag des Gebietes der Wolgadeutschen''. By this point circulation had doubled, fluctuating between 5,000 and 5,400. From 1922 onwards, the newspaper was published in Kosackenstadt. Around the time of the founding of the Volga German ASSR, ''Nachrichten'' was published daily. Nachrichten Redaktion 1923-1

In 1931 ''Nachrichten'' became the joint organ of the Volga German Communist Party ''obkom'' and the regional

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committee. In the same year a shortage of paper made it necessary to limit the frequency of publishing to 18 issues per month and reduce circulation to around 25,000. In 1933 it was converted into the joint organ of the party obkom, the city of Engels (the new name for Kosackenstadt) committee and the Engels city soviet. In 1939 it was named the organ of the Volga German ASSR Supreme Soviet, the party obkom, the Engels city party committee and the Engels city council of people's deputies.

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