Znamya
Cover of Znamya | |
| Editor-in-Chief | Sergey Chuprinin |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Grigory Baklanov (1986-1993), Yuriy Voronov (1984-1986), Vadim Kozhevnikov (1949-1984), Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1934-1948) |
| Categories | Literary Magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 1,000 |
| Founded | 1931 |
| First issue | 1931 |
| Country | Russia |
| Based in | 123001, Moscow, Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, b. 2/46 |
| Language | Russian |
| Website | https://znamlit.ru/ |
| ISSN | 0130-1616 |
Znamya (Russian: Знамя, IPA: [ˈznamʲə] ⓘ, lit. "The Banner") is a monthly Russian-language thick journal established in Moscow in 1931. It publishes traditional and experimental literature, including prose, poetry, essays, literary criticism, and bibliography. During Soviet times, it was an organ of the Union of Soviet Writers. It has been an independent publication since 1990.
In 1972, the magazine had a circulation of some 160,000 copies. Circulation peaked at 1,000,000 copies in 1990, but by 2023, it was down to 1,000 copies.
The magazine has published writers such as Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Bulgakov, Osip Mandelstam, Andrei Platonov, Isaac Babel, Varlam Shalamov, Vasil Bykov, Joseph Brodsky, Evgeny Rein, Alexander Kushner, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Olga Sedakova, Tatyana Tolstaya, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Viktor Pelevin, Victor Sosnora, and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko.