One of the most widely circulated and influential Turkmen newspapers of its time.
Founded in 1924 in Ashgabat, Turkmenskaia iskra (Туркменская искра, The Turkmen Spark, a derivative of the Vladimir Lenin-founded newspaper Iskra) was a Russian-language broadsheet newspaper and the official party organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan.
As a republican newspaper of record, it was responsible for proliferating the Soviet central government’s, as well as the local administration’s, public announcements and pronouncements, party deliberations, policy initiatives, etc., reflecting the government’s positions on a wide variety of issues. Turkmenskaia iskra also regularly featured columns dedicated to sports, local culture, literature, and the arts.
The Turkmenskaia Iskra Digital Archive includes all obtainable issues published from 1924 to 1995 and represents the most complete collection available for this title. The archive features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.
- Product Code: DA-ISKR
- Year First Published: 1924
- Archive: 1924–1995
- Language: Russian
- Country: Turkmenistan
- City: Ashgabat
- Frequency: Daily (260 issues per year)
- Format: PDF, page-based
- Producer: Infoteka