# Kyym

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{{Infobox newspaper
| name         = Кыым
| language     = Yakut
| founded      = 1921
| website      = {{URL|http://www.kyym.ru/}}
| circulation  = c. 18.000 (2007)
| headquarters = ul. Ordozhonikidze 31, [Yakutsk](/source/Yakutsk), [Sakha Republic](/source/Sakha_Republic)
}}
{{Expand Yakut}}

'''''Kyym''''' ({{langx|sah|Кыым}}, lit. ''Spark'') is the main [Yakut language](/source/Yakut_language) newspaper, published in [Yakutsk](/source/Yakutsk) five times a week. Owned by LLC "Media Group "Sitim", the current editor-in-chief is [Ivan Ivanovich Gavrilyev](/source/Ivan_Ivanovich_Gavrilyev). The print edition is published once a week on Thursdays and consists of 48 pages in an [A3](/source/A3_paper) 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](/source/Arzhakov%2C_Stepan_Maksimovich) ({{ill|Аржаков, Степан Максимович|ru|vertical-align=sup}}), Commissar of Education [Ilya Vinokurov](/source/Vinokurov%2C_Ilya_Egorovich) ({{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](/source/Yakut_scripts) and ''Kььm''<ref>[https://e.nlrs.ru/online2/26152 Kyym, №283 (3384), December 31, 1938]</ref> in [Yañalif](/source/Yakut_scripts) forms). The first publishers of the newspaper were [Platon Oyunsky](/source/Platon_Oyunsky), [Maksim Ammosov](/source/Maksim_Ammosov), [Anempodist Sofronov](/source/Sofronov%2C_Anempodist_Ivanovich) ({{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](/source/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis), the publication was closed. In 1994, the newspaper was published by a journalist [Fedora Petrovna Egorova](/source/Egorova%2C_Fedora_Petrovna) ({{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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