Der Rote Bergmann ('The Red Mine Worker') was a German language newspaper published from Prokopyevsk (West Siberian Krai), the Soviet Union between 1933 and 1935.Газеты СССР 1917—1960: Библиографический справочник, Том 3 К — О (Краевые, губернские, областные, окружные, уездные районные, городские, транспортные, военные и другие газеты). Всесоюзная ордена «Знак Почета» книжная палата Государствелная ордена Ленина библиотека СССР им. В. И. Ленина, Государственная ордена Трудового Красного Знамени Публичная библиотека нм. М. Е. Салтыкова-Щедрина. p. 287 The newspaper was an organ of the Prokopyevsk City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Coal Miners Union.Heide, Walther. Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Zeitungen im Ausland, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1935. p. 183 The first issue was published on March 10, 1933.
DerRote Bergmann had a readership among German-speaking workers in the Kuznetsk Basin (Kuzbass) coal mining area, especially among Reichsdeutsche (i.e. recent immigrants from Germany). The editors of the newspaper were Rodovski and Ludwig Karas. The most frequently quoted correspondent of the newspaper was the worker F. Frießen. The newspaper had a largely industrial character, carrying reports on mining industry in the Kuzbass and on the udarniks (shock workers).
Copies of the newspaper had two pages. It was printed in some 500 copies per issue.Katharina Boldt, Ilpo Tapani Piirainen. Sprache und Kultur der Russlanddeutschen: eine Dokumentation anhand von Presseberichten aus den Jahren 1970 bis 1990. Die Blaue Eule, 1996. p. 93 All in all, around 126 issues of the newspaper were published.
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External links April 20, 1933 issue of Der Rote Bergmannn October 25, 1933 issue of Der Rote Bergmann