Kyym (, lit. Spark) is the main Yakut language newspaper, published in Yakutsk five times a week. Owned by LLC "Media Group "Sitim", the current editor-in-chief is Ivan Ivanovich Gavrilyev. The print edition is published once a week on Thursdays and consists of 48 pages in an A3 format. It also operates an online version.
History of the newspaper 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 (), Commissar of Education Ilya Vinokurov () and member of the board of Kholbos M. Popov - decided to make the newspaper periodical and give it a new name - Kyym (kɯ:mKyym, №41 (301), August 18, 1929 in Novgorodov's Alphabet and KььmKyym, №283 (3384), December 31, 1938 in Yañalif forms). The first publishers of the newspaper were Platon Oyunsky, Maksim Ammosov, Anempodist Sofronov ().National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), thematic selection - the newspaper "Кыым"
In 1993, after the October events, the publication was closed. In 1994, the newspaper was published by a journalist Fedora Petrovna Egorova (), who has been at the newspaper's office for 36 years.
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External links Online edition