{{Infobox newspaper | name = Кыым | language = Yakut | founded = 1921 | website = {{URL|http://www.kyym.ru/}} | circulation = c. 18.000 (2007) | headquarters = ul. Ordozhonikidze 31, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic }} {{Expand Yakut}}
'''''Kyym''''' ({{langx|sah|Кыым}}, lit. ''Spark'') is the main Yakut language newspaper, published in Yakutsk five times a week. Owned by LLC "Media Group "Sitim", the current editor-in-chief is Ivan Ivanovich Gavrilyev. The print edition is published once a week on Thursdays and consists of 48 pages in an A3 format. It also operates an online version.
== 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 ({{ill|Аржаков, Степан Максимович|ru|vertical-align=sup}}), Commissar of Education Ilya Vinokurov ({{ill|Винокуров, Илья Егорович|ru|vertical-align=sup}}) and member of the board of Kholbos M. Popov - decided to make the newspaper periodical and give it a new name - ''Kyym'' (''kɯ:m''<ref>[https://e.nlrs.ru/online2/68955 Kyym, №41 (301), August 18, 1929]</ref> in Novgorodov's Alphabet and ''Kььm''<ref>[https://e.nlrs.ru/online2/26152 Kyym, №283 (3384), December 31, 1938]</ref> in Yañalif forms). The first publishers of the newspaper were Platon Oyunsky, Maksim Ammosov, Anempodist Sofronov ({{ill|Алампа|ru|vertical-align=sup}}).<ref>[https://e.nlrs.ru/collections/1501 National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), thematic selection - the newspaper "Кыым"]</ref>
In 1993, after the October events, the publication was closed. In 1994, the newspaper was published by a journalist Fedora Petrovna Egorova ({{ill|Егорова, Федора Петровна|ru|vertical-align=sup}}), who has been at the newspaper's office for 36 years.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.kyym.ru/ Online edition]
Category:Newspapers published in the Soviet Union Category:Yakutsk Category:Yakut-language newspapers
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