“Metrostroevets” – at the media marathon

The large-circulation newspaper “Metrostroevets” for the first time took part in the Moscow Media Festival, which was held from August 31 to September 1 at VDNKh. Our newspaper and books about Mosmetrostroy were presented in the “Media Publishing Fair” pavilion.

In the new city intellectual and entertainment festival, Muscovites and guests of the capital met with media heroes: journalists, bloggers, historians, show business representatives and many others. The program included lectures and discussions, master classes and quests, concerts and exhibitions.

The newspaper “Metrostroyevets” has been published since August 6, 1932, until the 1950s it was called “Drummer of Metrostroy”. Over the years, famous journalists, writers, and poets worked in the editorial office, including the first editor-in-chief Efim Reznichenko, who was awarded the Order of Lenin, the highest award of the Soviet Union, for the launch of the first stage of the Moscow Metro, participants in the Great Patriotic War, journalists Mikhail Shur, Margarita Nevolina, as well as the poet and staff correspondent of the newspaper Bela Akhmadulina.

Chief editors and correspondents are, as a rule, members of the Union of Journalists of Russia and Moscow. Among them are famous journalists of the 70-90s, editors Faina Blinova, Berta Bukharina, Aida Krylova, Nina Solovyova. The current editor-in-chief, Sergei Zhivaev, has been a member of the Moscow Union of Journalists since 2010. The newspaper has been repeatedly recognized by the Unions of Journalists of Russia and Moscow.

– In the 1930s, “Metrostroyevets” was published in a limited edition in some languages ​​of the peoples of the USSR participating in the construction of the first stage of the metro: Bashkir, Tatar. The largest newspapers of the Soviet Union collaborated with Metrostroevets, joint issues were organized, for example, “Komsomolskaya Pravda on the Zhdanovsky Radius”, “Moscow Bolshevik on the construction of Kievskaya,” said Pavel Kalinin, director of the Mosmetrostroy Museum. – The newspaper was published during the Great Patriotic War.

In the 1970s, an agreement on friendship and cooperation was concluded between the Moscow Metrostroy and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Seminars were held, writers regularly visited mines and working faces. Many metro builders graduated from the Literary Institute named after. Gorky, among them - metro-builder writer Alexey Fetz, metro-builder poets Evgeny Dolmatovsky, Grigory Kostrov, Alexander Bezymensky, Alexey Fomin, Yuri Petrunin, Anatoly Parpara, USSR State Prize laureate Sergei Smirnov, etc.

The newspaper had more than 20 branches (independent publications), for example, Tekhnicheskaya newspaper. One of the last branches of Youth Dialogue was successful in the 90s. In addition, the newspaper's editors published targeted leaflets dedicated to the launch of stations, records of socialist competitions, as well as criticism of certain teams and supplier factories.

The editors of the newspaper "Metrostroyevets" participated in the publication of more than 10 books devoted to the history of metro construction, collections of metro construction poets and methodological collections on current production issues.