"Nizhegorodsky Rabochiy" ("Nizhny Novgorod Worker") is a city socio-political newspaper founded in Nizhny Novgorod in 1932. From 7 October 1932 to 22 October 1990 it was published under the name "Gorkovsky Rabochiy" ("Gorky Worker") — in accordance with the city's official name during the Soviet period. In Soviet times it was a daily evening newspaper; in the post-Soviet period it switched to a weekly format. According to the Public Opinion Foundation, it ranks among the three most popular newspapers in Nizhny Novgorod, alongside "Novoye Delo" and "Gorod i Gorozhane".[1]

Publication History

The newspaper was founded on 20 March 1932; on 19 April of the same year the name "Nizhegorodsky Rabochiy" was approved, and the first issue appeared on 1 May. In August 1932 the paper became a daily.[1] In the 1950s the newspaper acquired the status of the official organ of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU and the Gorky City Council of Workers' Deputies. In the 1970s–1980s circulation exceeded 100,000 copies; the editorial staff paid particular attention to covering the activities of the Gorky Metallurgical Plant.[1]

In the post-Soviet period, the newspaper's founders were the City Council and the City Hall; the paper was published five times a week. In 1999 the newspaper switched to full-color printing with a circulation of 28,000–35,000 copies. That same year, the CJSC "Daily City Newspaper 'Nizhegorodsky Rabochiy'" was acquired by "Intermediagrupp" (IMG), 85% owned by the federal publishing group Hachette Filipacchi Shkulev; IMG subsequently held 51.55% of the charter capital, while 45.52% was owned by the Norwegian media holding A-pressen. In 2006 the paper's turnover amounted to about 20 million rubles.[1] In 2007, as a result of a deal with IMG and A-pressen, the owner of 97.07% of the charter capital became the general director of the Seti-NN, Andrei Cheremisinov.[1][2] According to market participants' estimates, the deal amount did not exceed 2 million dollars; observers linked the purchase to the interests of the head of the city administration, Vadim Bulavinov, though Cheremisinov himself stated that he had acquired the newspaper in his own interest.[2][2] According to market participants' estimates, the deal amount did not exceed 2 million dollars; observers linked the purchase to the interests of the head of the city administration, Vadim Bulavinov, though Cheremisinov himself stated that he had acquired the newspaper in his own interest.[2] In 2010 the editorial office ran into financial difficulties. Since January 2014 the paper has been published weekly on Wednesdays, 40 pages, A3 format, with a circulation of 10,000 copies.[1]

Editors-in-Chief

  • Mark Ashkenazi (until 1938)[1]
  • Georgy Rabkov (1999)[1]
  • Andrei Pavlovich Chugunov (until September–October 2003)[1]
  • Igor Ponyaev (acting from September–October 2003)[1]
  • Tatyana Veniaminovna Postnikova (until May 2009)[1]
  • Yekaterina Nikolaevna Voronkova (May 2009 — January 2012)[1]
  • Dinova Viktoria Yuryevna (January 2012 — October 2012)[1]
  • Andrei Pavlovich Chugunov (October 2012 — January 2016)[1]
  • Bulgakova Marina Gennadyevna (from January 2016)[1]

Notable Contributors and Related Figures

Vladimir Lapyrin held the positions of reporter and deputy executive secretary of the editorial office in 1976–1977, after which he moved to the regional youth press.[1] From 2005 to 2010, local historian and necropolist, polyglot linguist and translator Anatoly Moskvin worked as a freelance correspondent for the newspaper.[1] Nemtsov, who at the time worked as a physicist, published an open letter in the newspaper opposing the construction of the Gorky Heat Supply Station — the first public statement of this kind in his career.[1]

Litigation

The newspaper was a defendant in a lawsuit filed by OAO "Redoks" over an article by journalist Slavina Irina) titled "A Big Scam for Your Money". The article claimed that in promoting products called "electric vitamins", pseudoscientific concepts were used that misled buyers.[1]

Links

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (ru) — Nizhegorodsky Rabochiy (archive)
  2. Kommersant (Volga Region) — "Nizhegorodsky Rabochiy" to work for new owners. Kommersant (N. Novgorod) No. 129, 24.07.2007 (archive)