The age of great history
“News” celebrating the centenary of the birth. 13 Mar 1917 — birthday of “Izvestia”. The change of the ages — time, creating a great publication. Events that drastically change the life of his contemporaries, especially for journalists news. “News” has become popular since the first issue hundreds of thousand copies. The publication not only publishes exclusive information and participated in historical events directly — all of these 100 years.
A century of “news” remain the leader in the field of media, exerting an unprecedented influence on the public and political life of the country.
“News” is the only 300-year history of the national press newspaper, faithful to its name for over a century.
Although formally the publication changed names several times, together with the institutions founders in the election of workers ‘deputies became a Central Executive Committee, workers’ deputies — the people’s. Nevertheless, the country knows only those “proceedings” that you hold in your hands.
Newspaper, born in the days of the bourgeois revolution, became one of the main media of the new era. “News” appear to light the day when the provisional Committee of the State Duma announces a government, but it is the first meeting of the Petrograd Soviet of workers ‘ deputies.
In the first issue of March 13 (February 28 old style) — the promise to fight for the convocation of the Constituent Assembly, “izbrannogo on the basis of universal, equal, direct and secret suffrage”. From the first hours of life of the publication on its pages unfolds a spicy controversy associated with the political opposition, which eventually ends with the Oct. And in the country, and in the editorial.
The work of the newspaper it is difficult to separate from social activity, in those years, instant popularity is “news” to ensure the exclusivity of the information published: the first decrees of the new authorities “On the world” and “earth” printed on the pages of the publication. To the editor, wherever it was — in the printing Sytin, or in the Smolny, queues of readers who demanded fresh room.
The history of “News” reflects the greatness and the tragedy of the Russian XX century. The 20s and 30s — the heyday of the publication, the authors and editors of the newspaper have a direct impact on the country’s politics and participate in the construction of the new state. “Izvestia” pay dearly for its popularity, autonomy and independence: six editors-in-chief arrested, including Nikolai Bukharin, one of the authors of the 1936 Constitution. He worked on the text in glavatska Izvestia office, where then was arrested.
“News” has always been called the newspaper of the intelligentsia. And even so, “the newspaper of the intelligentsia to the people.”
The best writers, journalists, artists join the group “News” since the founding. The history of Russian literature, journalism, photography is inseparable from the history of publishing. Almost all the important names in the culture of the twentieth century pass through the “news”.
Here in different years published by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Alexei Tolstoy, Ilya Ehrenburg, Tvardovsky, Konstantin Simonov, Vasily Shukshin, Valentin Rasputin, Andrei Voznesensky and many others. The most important work of Boris Vasilyev, Vladimir Bogomolov, Yuri Nagibin, Yuri Trifonov, Anatoly Rybakov, Andrey Platonov was published in the publishing house “Izvestia”. Here come the books by Jorge Luis Borges, Julio cortázar, Franz Kafka, Hg wells, Henry Fielding.
Boris Efimov, the famous graph and the Patriarch of Soviet cartoons, worked in the “news” is 86 years old!
100 years of modern history of Russia, Izvestia documented by photographers. Without the work of Konstantin Kuznetsov, Anatoly Skurikhina, Nikolay Petrov, Sergey Smirnov, Victor ahlomova impossible to present an image of the twentieth century.
During the great Patriotic newspaper fought. Two hundred forty Izvestia went to the front, forty of them died. The photographer has created a unique chronicle of the war years — the work of Dmitry Baltermants and Paul Troshkina, George Homsar and Samaria Gurarie known all over the world.
Military journalism “News” has become a classic — the newspaper published an anti-fascist texts of Vasily Grossman, Vsevolod Ivanov, Konstantin Simonov, Lev Kassil, Vsevolod Vishnevsky.
Ilya Ehrenburg was accredited by the “News” at the Nuremberg trials, and drawings in the court room did Boris Yefimov.
Not returned to the editorial office c war correspondents Mikhail Suvinsky, Sergey Galyshev, Alexander Kuznetsov and photographer Pavel Troshkin. Bear-a correspondent of “the Living and the dead” written with Simon Troshkina — the poet and the photographer was front-line comrades.
“Izvestia” gave birth to many landmark for the country’s publishing projects. Then in 1925, comes “New world”. At first, the editor-in-chief of “Izvestia” Yuri Steklov, together with Anatoly Lunacharsky edits the magazine.
In 1962, the “New world”, led by Alexander Tvardovsky, prints “One day of Ivan Denisovich”.
In turn, “news” print “terkina on the light”, in fact, prohibited in the USSR.
“News” magazine produced hits — “the Foreigner”, “Friendship of peoples”, “Theatre”. Here comes the magazine “abroad” — a symbol of the rapprochement of the USSR and the Western world.
In “Izvestiya” on 28 November 1961 is an interview with the American President John Kennedy, the first in the history of the Soviet press. “News” in the ‘ 60s called a branch of the Ministry of foreign Affairs — chief editor Alexei adzhubei meets world leaders, engaging in cultural diplomacy. Technology “soft power” first tested “News”.
With the 60 “Izvestia” printed become the main brand of the country. Yuri Gagarin followed by the whole party of the first cosmonauts of the USSR are friends with the editors.
Newspaper — the attraction of the sixties. Even after frost, which followed after the removal of Nikita Khrushchev from power and removing the chief editor Alexei Adzhubei, thaw the mood in the editorial do not disappear. In Izvestia the club come Mstislav Rostropovich, Galina Vishnevskaya, Vladimir Voinovich, Bulat Okudzhava, Sergey Yursky. The “news” remain the most important point on the cultural map and intelligent Moscow for many years.
Here are waiting for change and welcome the restructuring. During the coup of 1991, the editorial Board makes a choice before the end of the fight with the emergency Committee and comes out August 21 editorial material “Reaction is not gone!”.
Like all of society, the paper will pass through the euphoria of victory and triumph, will experience confusion and frustration comes to accepting responsibility for its editorial destiny under new conditions. No matter how varied the country and one of its major publications, one thing remains constant — “news” preserved and transmitted from generation to generation with high professional and ethical standards. This Izvestia tradition for 100 years.
The newspaper has always defended the ideals of freedom, democracy and justice — as understood by their contemporaries. In an editorial post journalists were looking for stories of the “little man” who needs to help. Thanks to the work of the newspaper were amnestied thousands of people, received the sentence for minor offenses, “for seeds”. “Izvestia” organized campaign against anonymous letters, by a special decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 1988, the practice of consideration of anonymous letters have been cancelled. It was truly a revolution in social life!
Newspaper, day after day, describing the life of the country for over 100 years, it became a part of Russian history. Today “news” is both a national treasure and multimedia publishing.