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Soviet Information Bureau (russian: Советское информационное бюро, translit=Sovetskoye informatsionnoye byuro, commonly known as Sovinformburo []) was a leading Soviet Union, Soviet news agency, operating from 1941 to 1961.

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The Axis powers , Axis Operation Barbarossa , invasion of the Soviet Union started on 22 June 1941, opening the

Eastern Front of World War II The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe ( Baltics), and So ...

. On 24 June 1941 a directive of Sovnarkom and the

Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, – TsK KPSS was the executive leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, acting between sessions of Congress. According to party statutes, the committee direct ...

established the Sovinformburo "to bring into the limelight international events, military developments, and day-to-day life through printed and broadcast media". During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

the Sovinformburo directed the activity of the All-Slavonic Committee, the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women, the Anti-Fascist Committee of the Soviet Youth, the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Scientists and the

Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, ''Yevreysky antifashistsky komitet'' yi, יידישער אנטי פאשיסטישער קאמיטעט, ''Yidisher anti fashistisher komitet''., abbreviated as JAC, ''YeAK'', was an organization that was created i ...

(JAC). In 1944 a special bureau on propaganda for foreign countries was set up as part of Sovinformburo.Mass Media in Russia
In 1961 the Sovinformburo was transformed into Novosti Press Agency which was succeeded by

RIA Novosti RIA Novosti (russian: РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN () or RIA (russian: РИА, label=none) is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency. On 9 December 2013 by a decree of Vladimir Putin it was liquidated and its asset ...

in 1991 and, in 2013, by International Information Agency Russia Today. Yuri Levitan made the radio announcements on

Radio Moscow Radio Moscow ( rus, Pадио Москва, r=Radio Moskva), also known as Radio Moscow World Service, was the official international broadcasting station of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics until 1993. It was reorganized with a new name ...

(known for its " Wide is My Motherland" call-sign). While Radio Moscow always started its announcements with the words "Moscow is speaking" (russian: Govorit Moskva, script=latn, label=none), during the Axis aggression against the Soviet Union in World War II broadcasts came from Sverdlovsk (today

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...

) until 1943, when activity moved to Kuibyshev (present-day Samara) until 1945. The Soviet Information Bureau never announced the fall of Kiev in 1941.

Chairmen

* Aleksandr Sergeevich Scherbakov (1941–1945) * Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky (1946–1947) * Boris Nikolaevich Ponomarev (1947–1961)

Radio announcers

* Yuri Levitan

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