 Cover ofZnamya | |
| Editor | Sergey Chuprinin |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 4,500 |
| Founded | 1931 |
| Country | Russia |
| Based in | 123001, Moscow, Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, b. 2/46 |
| Language | Russian |
| ISSN | 0130-1616 |
Znamya (Russian:Знамя,IPA:[ˈznamʲə]ⓘ, lit. "The Banner") is a Russian monthlyliterary magazine,[1] which was established in Moscow in 1931. In 1931–1932, the magazine was published under the name ofLokaf ("Локаф", which was an abbreviation of "Литературноеобъединение писателейКраснойАрмии ифлота", or Literary Association of Writers of theRed Army andFleet). During the Soviet times,Znamya dedicated most of its pages to short stories and novels about themilitary, publishing works byKonstantin Simonov,Vasily Grossman,Pavel Antokolsky and others.Znamya has different sections dedicated toprose, poetry, essays,literary criticism,bibliography etc. In 1972, the magazine had a circulation of some 160,000 copies.
In April 1954, the magazine published poems from the novel "Doctor Zhivago" byBoris Pasternak.[2]
SincePerestroika, the magazine has a liberal orientation. It publishes traditional andinnovative literature.[3] The magazine publishedAnna 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,Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and many other writers.
In 2010Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in custody, received theZnamya Magazine Award [ru].[4]
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