The history of periodic press of Brest region
14/03/2013 10:03
The periodic print publications appear in Brest region at the beginning of ХХ century. Before the first world war in Brest were published"Brest-Litovskij listok" (1901),"Zapadnyj Bug" (1909),"Nasha zarya" (1912),"Nash kraj" (1912 - 1914).
At those times the subject matters of Brest region were widely lit in the first Byelorussian general newspaper "Nasha niva" and in different Russian speaking periodic issues of Belarus.
In 1921 – 1939 years the territory of modern Brest region was part of Polesskoe and Novogrudskoe domains of Poland. In Brest- nad-Bugom are edited more than 20 periodic print issues. Among then was the magazine of polesskaya domain justice"Dziennik wojewodztwa Poleskiego", that placed official information, daily and weekly newspapers"Expres Poleski", "Gazeta Poleska","Polesie","Dziennik Brzeski" and other. There were several Jewish newspapers, that published information in Yiddish as well as in Polish.
After the reunion of Western Europe with BSSR from September 1939 in Brest is edited newspaper"Rabochy" that from 1940 is published as the regional under the title "Zarya". Also from the spring 1939 appear a number of regional newspapers of Brest region.
From June 1941 till July 1944 Brest was occupied by the army of Nazi Germany. The Nazi leadership realized a new administrative division of the territory. The southern parts of the region were included in the structure of Reich commissariat"Ukraine", the north-eastern parts were included in the structure of Reich commissariat"Ostland", the north- western parts (Kamenec and Pruzany) – directly in the structure of Reich (Eastern Prussia). This new administrative division influenced on the specific character of information policy.
In Brest during the years of occupation was edited in the Ukraine language newspaper"Nashe slovo". In Pinsk"Pinska". In the regions joined to Eastern Prussia were spread mostly Belarusian newspapers"Novaya doroga" (Belostok)and "Ranica" (Berlin). In Baranovichi at this time was published Belarusian newspaper"Baranavickaya gazeta".
During World War II in Brest region are secretly published newspapers"Za Rodinu","Zarya".
From 1944 was renewed the practice of publishing regional and district newspapers in Brest region. At the end of 1980 and the beginning of 1990 the greatest part of the existing print issues refused to be edited under plain titles and preferred to depict in the titles the names of the regions (for example"Kobrin vesnik", "Pinski vesnik","Naviny Kamenechhi"). During this period apart from governmental press appear private issues such as"Brest kurier" (1990),"Vechernij Brest" (1991).
In 1990 starts to be published Belarusian regional newspaper"Narodnaya tribuna". Relatively recently (correspondingly 2002 and 2004) appears "Brestskaya gazeta" and "Brest vestnik".