Znamya
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For Russian newspaper of 1902-1917, the original publisher of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, see Znamya (newspaper).
For the Russian Space Mirror, , see Znamya (Space Mirror).
Znamya (Russian: "Знамя", which stands for banner) is a Russian monthly magazine, which was established in Moscow in 1931. In 1931-1932, the magazine was published under the name of Lokaf ("Локаф", which was an abbreviation of "Литературное объединение писателей Красной Армии и флота", or Literary Association of Writers of the Red Army and Fleet). During the Soviet times, Znamya dedicated most of its pages to short stories and novels about the military, publishing works by Konstantin Simonov, Vasily Grossman, Pavel Antokolsky and others. Znamya has different sections dedicated to prose, poetry, essays, literary criticism, bibliography etc. In 1972, the magazine had a circulation of some 160,000 copies.
[edit] External links
- Internet site of the magazine (Russian)
