Kyym (Yakut: Кыым, lit. Spark) is the main Yakut language newspaper, published in Yakutsk five times a week. It also has an Internet version.

Кыым
Founded1921
LanguageYakut
Headquartersul. Ordozhonikidze 31, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic
Circulationc. 18.000 (2007)
Websitewww.kyym.ru

The volume of Kyym - 48 pages; Frequency - once a week, on Thursday. The format is A3.

The founders of Kyym - LLC "Media Group "Sitim".

Chief editor of Kyym - Gavrilyev Ivan Ivanovich (sah).

History of the newspaper

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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 (Аржаков, Степан Максимович [ru]), Commissar of Education Ilya Vinokurov (Винокуров, Илья Егорович [ru]) and member of the board of Kholbos M. Popov - decided to make the newspaper periodical and give it a new name - Kyym (kɯ:m[1] in Novgorodov's Alphabet and Kььm[2] in Yañalif forms). The first publishers of the newspaper were Platon Oyunsky, Maksim Ammosov, Anempodist Sofronov (Алампа [ru]).[3]

In 1993, after the famous October events, the publication was closed. In 1994, the newspaper was published by a journalist Fedora Petrovna Egorova (Егорова, Федора Петровна [ru]), who has been at the newspaper's office for 36 years.

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