''Kyym'' ( sah, Кыым, lit. ''Spark'') is the main
Yakut language
Yakut , also known as Yakutian, Sakha, Saqa or Saxa ( sah, саха тыла), is a Turkic language spoken by around 450,000 native speakers, primarily the ethnic Yakuts and one of the official languages of Sakha (Yakutia), a federal republic ...
newspaper, published in
Yakutsk
Yakutsk (russian: Якутск, p=jɪˈkutsk; sah, Дьокуускай, translit=Djokuuskay, ) is the capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about south of the Arctic Circle. Fueled by the mining industry, Yakutsk has become one ...
five times a week. It also has an Internet version.
The volume of ''Kyym'' - 48 pages; Frequency - once a week, on Thursday.
The format is
A3.
The founders of ''Kyym'' - LLC "Media Group "Sitim".
Chief editor of ''Kyym'' -
Gavrilyev Ivan Ivanovich (
sah).
History of the newspaper
The first newspaper in the Yakut language was ''Manchaary'', the first issue of which was published on 28 December 1921. Two years later, a commission of three people — the People's Commissar of the Interior
Stepan Arzhakova (), Commissar of Education
Ilya Vinokurov
Ilya, Iliya, Ilia, Ilja, or Ilija (russian: Илья́, Il'ja, , or russian: Илия́, Ilija, ; uk, Ілля́, Illia, ; be, Ілья́, Iĺja ) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Eliahu), meaning "My God is Yahu/Jah." ...
() and member of the board of Kholbos M. Popov - decided to make the newspaper periodical and give it a new name - ''Kyym'' (''kɯ:m'' in
Novgorodov's Alphabet and ''Kььm'' in
Yañalif
Jaꞑalif, Yangalif or Yañalif (Tatar: jaꞑa əlifba/yaña älifba → jaꞑalif/yañalif, , Cyrillic: Яңалиф, "new alphabet") is the first Latin alphabet used during the latinisation in the Soviet Union in the 1930s for the Turkic langua ...
forms). The first publishers of the newspaper were
Platon Oyunsky,
Maksim Ammosov,
Anempodist Sofronov ().
National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), thematic selection - the newspaper "Кыым"
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In 1993, after the famous October events, the publication was closed. In 1994, the newspaper was published by a journalist Fedora Petrovna Egorova (), who has been at the newspaper's office for 36 years.
References
External links
Online edition
Newspapers published in Russia
Newspapers published in the Soviet Union
Yakutsk
Yakut-language newspapers
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