Moskovskij Komsomolets

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Moskovskij Komsomolets
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Editor-in-chief Pavel Gusev
Founded 1919
Language Russian
Headquarters Moscow, Russia
123995, г. Москва, ул. 1905 года, д. 7, стр. 1.
Circulation 930,000[1]
ISSN 1562-1987
Website www.mk.ru

Moskovskij Komsomolets (Russian: Московский комсомолец, "Moscow Komsomolets") is a Moscow-based daily newspaper with a circulation approaching one million, covering general news.[2] Founded in 1919, it is now regarded as publishing sensational or provocative items on Russian politics and society.[citation needed]

History

The newspaper was first published by the Moscow Committee of the Komsomol on 11 December 1919 as Yuny Kommunar (Russian: Юный коммунар, "Young Kommunar"). Over the next years it changed its name several time, starting a few months after the first issue when it became the Yunosheskaya Pravda (Russian: Юношеская правда, "Youth Truth"). In 1924, after Lenin’s death, it was renamed to Molodoy Leninets (Russian: Молодой ленинец, "Leninist-to-Be"). It took its present-day name in September 1929.[3]

Between 1931 and 1939 the paper ceased publication. It was revived in 1940 but not for long: the war interrupted publishing again in August 1941. Publishing resumed only on 2 October 1945. Until 1990 it served as the organ of the Moscow Committee and the Moscow City Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. In 1991 it was taken over by its editorial staff.[3]

Editors-in-Chief

Since 1983 Pavel Gusev (Russian: Павел Николаевич Гусев, born 4 April 1949 in Moscow) serves as MK’s editor-in-chief.[3]

Previous editors-in-chief

Contents

The paper specialises in topical social and political material, economic surveys, city news, urban chronicles and diverse information.[3]

ZD Awards

MK is also known as the host of Russia's oldest hit parade - the Zvukovaya Dorozhka (Russian: Звуковая Дорожка, "sound track"). It was founded in autumn 1975 by Artur Gasparyan and has been published monthly in the paper since 1977.[4] Also called the ZD Awards, it features both Russian and international acts. Since 2003 it is presented in a ceremony in concert halls. It’s considered one of the major Russian music awards.[5]

Circulation

According to a poll conducted in May 2004 by the Levada Center, 9% of the Russians and 33% of the Moscovites who responded, read the paper "more or less regularly". For the year 2000 the poll reports 11% and 40%, respectively.[6]

It has a printed circulation of between 700,000[3] and 930,000[1] copies.

See also

References

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