"Birzha" ("The Exchange") was a Nizhny Novgorod business weekly published from 1991 to 2017. It was one of the first business periodicals in post-Soviet Nizhny Novgorod Region. The newspaper positioned itself as "the weekly of Nizhny Novgorod entrepreneurs" and, according to researchers of the Nizhny Novgorod business press, devoted considerable attention to social issues.[1] Around the weekly grew the "Birzha" publishing house, which put out several thematic supplements and standalone publications under the "Birzha Plus" brand.

History and leadership

In 2009 the "Birzha" publishing house was bought out and relaunched by the entrepreneur Ilya Osipov, founder of the Nizhny Novgorod internet portal NN.ru, the social app Numbuster, the educational startup i2istudy, and the hardware startup Wowcube (Cubios Inc.).[2]

From 1991 to 2011 the weekly's editorial staff was headed by Lapyrin Vladimir Viktorovich[1], a journalist who, before joining "Birzha," had served as editor-in-chief of the regional youth newspaper "Leninskaya Smena" and as deputy editor-in-chief of regional television. In parallel, from 1992 to 2011, he ran the "Birzha Plus" information and advertising agency, under which a cluster of specialized publications was issued.

At various times the newspaper employed Nizhny Novgorod journalists and media managers, including Aleksey Nikolaevich Prosheltsev.

The last issue posted on the publishing house's website is No. 13–14 (1271–1272) of December 5, 2017. By that time the newspaper was no longer appearing weekly but monthly, with a print run of five thousand copies, on forty-eight A3-format pages[3][4].

Publications under the "Birzha Plus" brand

Over the years, the following specialized publications were issued within the association:

  • Birzha Plus Auto"
  • "Birzha Plus Your Home"
  • "Birzha Plus Career"
  • "Birzha Plus Finance"
  • "Birzha Plus Trading Row"
  • "Internet Pilot"

Sources

  1. relga.ru — M. A. Tolstunova. Social Issues on the Pages of the Nizhny Novgorod Business Press (archive)
  2. Forbes Russia — Ilya Osipov (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Web Archive — birzha.ru, snapshot of May 12, 2019 (archive)
  4. web.archive.org — Web Archive — birzha.ru, page for advertisers (archive)