''Trud'' (russian: Труд, en, Labor) is a Russian newspaper. ''Truds first issue was on February 19, 1921, in

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, in what was then the

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. Under the Soviet state, the paper published the work of famous writers and poets, including

Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (, ; rus, Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский, , vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ məjɪˈkofskʲɪj, Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.ogg, links=y; – 14 Apr ...

, Nikolai Rubtsov,

Yuri Nagibin Yuri Markovich Nagibin (russian: Ю́рий Ма́ркович Наги́бин; 3 April 1920 – 17 June 1994) was a Russian Soviet writer, screenwriter and novelist. Biography Yuri Nagibin was born in Moscow in 1920. Nagibin's mother Ksen ...

, and

Yevgeny Yevtushenko Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko ( rus, links=no, 1=Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, ...

. Prior to the

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, ''Trud'' was the press organ of the

All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions The All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (ACCTU; russian: Всесоюзный центральный совет профессиональных союзов, VTsSPS) was the national trade union federation of the Soviet Union. The federati ...

. It emphasized labor and economic analyses and included official decrees and orders. In 1990 the paper's circulation reached 21.5 million, the world's largest according to the ''

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''. In the years following the end of the Soviet Union, about 21 million of these readers were lost and the paper fell into decline. In 2007, the media asset management group PromSvyazCapital created the holding company Media3. Media3's holdings included ''Trud'', other newspapers including '' Arguments and Facts'', and other assets. In February 2008, the daily newspaper was completely re-branded, the format changed from broadsheet to full-color tabloid, and the only nationwide job classifieds section included. In 2009 the paper's website saw a major updating. On May 1, 2011, after a number of editorial changes, Media3 terminated its contract with the publishing house JSC (Labor Publishing House) for JSC to produce content for ''Trud'' (including the Sunday edition and the online version). The announced reason was to cut costs and improve the profitability of all the businesses held by the media company Media3. Content for ''Trud'' was to be purchased from editorial units of the holding company, particularly ''Arguments and Facts''. Media3 also contemplated the sale of some publishing projects operating under the ''Trud'' brand. In January 2012, ''Trud'' was purchased from Media3 by Newspaper "Labor" LLC and returned to its historic building at 9 Grand Dmitrovka Street. In February 2012 was announced that the new owners of ''Trud'' would be the Institute of Free Journalism, founded by Sergei Choi (Deputy Chairman of RusHydro and an associate of

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co-chairman

Yury Luzhkov Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov ( rus, Ю́рий Миха́йлович Лужко́в, p=ˈjʉrʲɪj mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ lʊˈʂkof; 21 September 1936 – 10 December 2019) was a Russian politician who served as mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010 ...

) and the journalists Valery Simonov and Yuri Ryazhskiy. As of 2013, ''Labor'' is published three times a week.

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