*Gorkovskaya Pravda* — a regional newspaper published in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) during the Soviet period. The publication served as the main printed organ of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU and the Regional Executive Committee, covering the political, public, and sporting life of the region.
Activities
The newspaper published official decisions of party and Soviet bodies, as well as regional news — including sports coverage. In particular, its pages reported the results of the popular athletics relay race organized by the editorial board: the annual Gorkovskaya Pravda Prize drew teams from the city's major enterprises, including the Gorky Automobile Plant. GAZ teams won this prize on multiple occasions.
The publication also recorded political decisions made by city and regional authorities. In 1979, the newspaper reported on the unveiling of a bust of Andrei Zhdanov at the main entrance of the Krasnoye Sormovo Plant, which had been given his name at that time. On 8 May 1970, *Gorkovskaya Pravda* reported on the opening of a memorial in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin: thousands of Gorky residents gathered for the ceremony, the names of 104 local Heroes of the Soviet Union who had fallen in battle were engraved on the stele, and a tank manufactured at Krasnoye Sormovo in March 1944 drove up to its pedestal under its own power. In May 1975, the newspaper covered the opening in the Kremlin of the memorial "City of Gorky — to the Front," featuring a La-7 fighter aircraft, a Katyusha rocket launcher, and other military equipment, as well as a stele honoring 13 military formations raised in Gorky and the region during the Great Patriotic War.
In the summer of 1972, during a severe drought, *Gorkovskaya Pravda* wrote about the effect of the heat on the harvest, noting that such high temperatures had last been recorded more than 30 years earlier — in July 1938; the newspaper did not publish any details about the forest fires.[2][2][2] During the 1970s, the newspaper covered in detail the commemorative events of the region's military history.[2] A decade later, in 1989, *Gorkovskaya Pravda* published a decree on the removal of Zhdanov's name from the Gorky Polytechnic Institute and other sites in the region — a significant piece for the perestroika era on the de-Sovietization of the region's toponymy.
Successor
Following the renaming of Gorky to Nizhny Novgorod in 1990, the newspaper changed its name. The publication's successor became *Nizhegorodskaya Pravda*, which continues to appear as a regional newspaper.
One of the editors of the Nizhny Novgorod Gubernatorial Gazette was the writer Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov-Pechersky.[1]
An issue of *Gorkovskaya Pravda* from 1989 has been preserved in the "Museum of Found Objects" at the Sormovo waste transfer station in Nizhny Novgorod — as one of the items discovered among the refuse and set aside by staff as a historical artifact.[3]
Sources
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — In the 1970s, the newspaper provided extensive coverage of memorable events in the region's military history. On May 8, 1970, Gorkovskaya Pravda reported on the opening of a memorial in Nizhegor
- Newsroom24 — A 1989 issue of Gorkovskaya Pravda has been preserved at the "Museum of Finds" at the Sormovo waste transfer station in Nizhny Novgorod — as one of the items discovered
- nizhny800.ru — The newspaper traces its history to the Nizhegorodskiye Gubernskiye Vedomosti, first published in 1838 and for nearly a quarter of a century the only periodical (archive)