Pryazovia Worker

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Pryazovia Worker
Russian: Приазовский рабочий
Typesocial-political newspaper
FormatA2
Owner(s)SCM
PublisherPJSC «Pryazovia Worker»
EditorNikolay Tokarskiy
FoundedMarch 9, 1918
LanguageRussian
HeadquartersLenin Avenue, 19, Mariupol, Donetsk oblast 87500 Ukraine
Websitehttp://pr.ua/

The Pryazovia Worker (Russian: Приазовский рабочий) is a regional Russian-language newspaper in Ukraine.

History[edit]

The newspaper was founded on March 9, 1918, in Mariupol. At various times, it published under different names: Reports of the Mariupol Military Revolutionary Committee (Russian: «Известия Мариупольского военно-революционного комитета»), Reports of the Revolutionary and Party Committee of Mariupol (Russian: «Известия Мариупольского ревкома и парткома»), Pryazovia Truth (Russian: «Приазовская правда»), Our Truth (Russian: «Наша правда»), and Pryazovia Proletarian (Russian: «Приазовский пролетарий»). It began publishing under its current name on April 16, 1937.

Today[edit]

The newspaper is distribution throughout the south of the Donets Basin; it had the largest circulation in Donetsk oblast in 2010.[1][citation needed] It has its own printing, distribution network and shop. As of 2008 it had about 100 employees.[2][citation needed]

The newspaper is a subdivision of the company PJSC «Pryazovia Worker», which publishes other periodicals and runs an advertising agency. The beneficial owner of PJSC «Pryazovia Worker», holding 88.69% of shares, is SCM, the holding company of Rinat Akhmetov, the richest man in Ukraine.[3][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ «Приазовский рабочий» — самая тиражная и авторитетная газета Донецкой области (in Russian)
  2. ^ Андрій МАЛАЩУК. Приазов'я: від скіфа до сталевара. // Західний кур'єр (Івано-Франківськ), 9 жовтня 2008
  3. ^ Ринат Ахметов сконцентрировал 88,69% акций «Приазовского рабочего» // Укррудпром (in Russian)
  4. ^ "SCM збільшила свою частку в газеті «Приазовский рабочий» з 78,55% до 88,69% // Телекритика, 13.11.2007". Archived from the original on 3 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2012.

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