Kyzyl Tan Explained

Кызыл Таң
Language:Tatar
Foundation:1918
Owner:parliament and government of Bashkortostan
Website:http://kiziltan.ru/
Headquarters:ul. 50-let Oktyabrya 13
Ufa, Bashkortostan
Circulation:c. 65.000 (1995)

Kyzyl Tan (Tatar: Кызыл таң, lit. Red Dawn) is a Tatar language newspaper published in Bashkortostan and Bashkortostan's official Tatar newspaper.[1] It was founded as the organ of the Baskhir Province Committee of the Communist Part of the Soviet Union.[2]

It was granted the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1968.

Previous names:

Publication suspended during the Great Patriotic War; it restarted on 12 March 1944 under the current name.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Akiner, Shirin . Islamic Peoples Of The Soviet Union . 2013-09-05 . Routledge . 978-1-136-14266-6 . 83–84 . en.
  2. Book: Congress . Library of . Newspapers of the Soviet Union in the Library of Congress (Slavic, 1954-1960; Non-Slavic, 1917-1960) . Horecky . Paul Louis . 1962 . U.S. Government Printing Office . 46 . en.