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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Rossiya Bank |
| Founder(s) | Peter the Great |
| Publisher | SC Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti Editorial House |
| Editor-in-chief | Dmitry Sherikh |
| Founded | 13 January 1703 (2 January,OC) |
| Language | Russian |
| Ceased publication | 11 November 1917 (29 October, OC) |
| Relaunched | 1 September 1991 |
| Headquarters | 25/A, Marata Street,St. Petersburg |
| Country |  Russian Empire (1703-1917)Russian Republic (1917)Russian Federation (since 1991) |
| Circulation | 190.000 (as of 1995) |
| Website | spbvedomosti |
TheVedomosti (Russian:Ведомости) is Russia's oldest newspaper. It was established byPeter the Great'sukase dated 16 December 1702. The first issue appeared on 2 January 1703.
Following along the lines of the 17th-century handwrittenKuranty, Peter's newspaper contained little other than reports of military victories and diplomatic relations, either composed by the tsar himself or translated from Dutch newspapers according to his choice.
Originally, the newspaper was published at the Print Yard inKitai-gorod,Moscow. In 1710, engravings were introduced by way of decoration. They usually represented thePeter and Paul Fortress or theNeva River, thus reflecting the growing importance ofSaint Petersburg. From 1711, most issues were printed in the Northern capital.
Peter'sVedomosti was published quite irregularly, as important news arrived — sometimes as many as seventy issues appeared annually, only one. The circulation fluctuated from several dozen copies to four thousand. In 1719, the newspaper contained 22 pages. These early issues of theVedomosti — of which only a fraction survives — were reprinted in 1855.
With Peter's death in 1725, the newspaper lost its most precious contributor. As Russia offered no choice of journalists who could carry on his project, ownership of the paper was transferred to theRussian Academy of Sciences, which renamed itSankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti (that is,Saint Petersburg News) in 1727.
In the course of the 18th century, the academics issued the newspaper twice a week, supplementing it with extensive scholarly "commentaries", whose editors included Fedor Polikarpov-Orlov,Gerhardt Friedrich Müller,Mikhail Lomonosov, andIppolit Bogdanovich. Since 1800, theSaint Petersburg Vedomosti was published daily.
Controlled editorially by the liberal journalistEvgeny Korsh since 1863, theVedomosti was brought to the forefront of the country's political life, as it campaigned for Europeanizing reforms and opposed the conservative stance of the semi-officialMoskovskie Vedomosti. Korsh repeatedly clashed with censors over his liberal views until 1875, when he was dismissed from the editorial staff and the paper was taken over by the Imperial Ministry of Education.
After that, the newspaper's circulation and influence declined and it took theOctobrist editorial stance. Following theOctober Revolution, the paper was closed by theBolsheviks on 11 November 1917 (29 October OC).
In March 1918 the new Bolshevik government launched the Communist-alignedPetrogradskaya Pravda, which was mainly formed by journalists of thePravda that had not been transferred toMoscow after it became the new capital. Following the renaming of Petrograd into Leningrad in 1924, the paper was rebrandedLeningradskaya Pravda.
On 1 September 1991 theLeningradskaya Pravda was rebranded as the revivedSankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti. On December 28, 1995, the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office reorganized the newspaper as a joint stock company. It belongs to the JSC Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti Editorial House.Vladimir Putin was the first chairman of the newspaper's advisory board until June 1997.[1][2]
In 2005 theRossiya Bank, which is a co-founder of the JSC and had previously owned 20% share of the newspaper, acquired ownership of theSankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti.[3]
January 27, 1992 KVS established and registered at its address (per. Antonenko, d.6) LLP "St. Petersburg Intertrade". In this company, KVS fixed 50% of the authorized capital, another 35% was recorded for two co-founders-individuals, incl. Nikolay Egorov (17%). In turn, St. Petersburg Intertrade LLP, in the same year, together with a number of individuals and legal entities, became the founder of a joint venture in the form of CJSC Petrointeroil. The founders-individuals were the same N. Egorov (10%) and some other persons, incl. Vladimir YAKOVLEV (10%), Nikolay Khrameshkin (10%) and Sergey ROLDUGIN (50%)
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