Region: Kyrgyzstan

Official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Kirghiz SSR.

Established in 1925, in what was then the Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast in the RSFSR, Slovo Kyrgyzstana (Слово Кыргызстана, Word of Kyrgyzstan) is a Russian-language newspaper that served as the official party organ of the Central Committee of the Kirghiz SSR throughout its Soviet existence. It has been published independently since it gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Known variously as Batratskaia Pravda (Батрацкая правда, Batratskaya Truth, March-June 1925), Krest’ianskii put’ (Крестьянский путь, Peasant Path, 1925-1927), and Sovetskaia Kirgiziia (Советская Киргизия, Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1927-1991), at its peak the newspaper claimed a circulation of 123,000 copies and was the most important media organization disseminating the Communist party’s official stances and directives.

As the newspaper of the government of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Slovo Kyrgyzstana publishes edicts of the republic’s president, government resolutions, laws, etc. The newspaper also covers both national and international affairs, culture, economics, environmental issues, healthcare, religion and other important issues of concern.

The Slovo Kyrgyzstana Digital Archive comprises over 120,000 pages and includes all obtainable issues of the newspaper’s previous titles (Batratskaia Pravda, Krest’ianskii put’, and Sovetskaia Kirgiziia). The archive contains all obtainable published issues from 1925 on, with an additional year’s worth of content available for purchase on an annual basis. The archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title and features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.