Day of Russian Press

In 1703, the first Russian newspaper Vedomosti was published in Russia.On January 13, the Russian Press Day is celebrated in Russia. It was on this day in 1703 in Russia by decree of Peter I that the issue of the first Russian newspaper Vedomosti was published.

The first issue of the newspaper was called "Vedomosti on military and other matters worthy of knowledge and memory that happened in the Moscow state and in other surrounding countries." The newspaper was published in Moscow, then in St. Petersburg, while it actually did not have a permanent name – “Vedomosti”, “Russian Vedomosti”, “Vedomosti Moskovskie”.

From January 1, 1870, the "highest order" was allowed "to arrange in the form of experience the reception in postal institutions of subscriptions to periodicals, both Russian and foreign." In Russia, this was the first order to subscribe to the periodic press. By 1914, more than three thousand periodicals were published in Russia.

After 1917, this holiday was moved to May 5, the day when the main Soviet newspaper Pravda was published, and renamed the Day of the Soviet Press. Only in 1992, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the celebration of the “Day of the Russian Press” was returned to the historically correct date of January 13.