Russian Press Day - Feast of the Warriors of the Feather
January 13 is a professional holiday for all our “writing brothers”, the Day of the Russian Press. It is celebrated by journalists, correspondents, editors and representatives of many other professions involved in the production of newspapers, magazines, and now - and electronic publications. The Russian Press Day was established by the late Supreme Council of the Russian Federation 28 December 1991. The date 13 January was not chosen by chance. 2 January 1703 of the Year (January 13 in a New Style) The first issue of the newspaper “Vedomosti on military and other matters worthy of the knowledge and memory that happened in the Moscow State and in other neighboring countries” was published. It was the first Russian printed newspaper founded by decree of Peter I. Before the 13 of January 1991, the Supreme Council of the RSFSR set a new date, which was then re-established almost a year later by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union celebrated the Day of the Soviet press - 5 May, in honor of the first issue of the newspaper Pravda.
On the Day of the Russian press or the days coming to it all over Russia, branches of the Union of Journalists of Russia, editorial teams, and simply friendly companies of colleagues hold various festive events and festive meetings. They honor the veterans of the press, congratulate each other, do not forget about the youth. But no less important thing that real journalists do not forget is to remember their departed colleagues, including those who died while performing their professional duties. Despite the fact that most journalists are peaceful people, many have never held another in their hands. weaponsbesides cameras, dictaphones and keyboards, this is one of the most dangerous professions at present.
- Soviet military officers at the Reichstag
Thousands of journalists are currently located in almost all the “hot spots” of the planet. They do not have military weapons, but they risk no less than armed soldiers, often in the most dangerous places, literally “on the front lines”. But besides the “military” journalists, to one degree or another, virtually every member of the profession, which the inhabitants called “the second oldest”, is at risk. A journalist of the most seedy provincial newspaper, the most obscure television channel or site, can touch on the “wrong” topic and suffer for it. The scale of revenge of the “heroes” of publications is varied - from a bomb in a car to abandoned drugs, from beating at the entrance to a supposedly accidental traffic accident.
Much has been written about the glorious path of military journalists during the Great Patriotic War. "With a watering can and a notebook, and even with a machine gun," the workers of the Soviet press were invariably on the most dangerous sectors of the front, next to ordinary soldiers and commanders of the Red Army. In the very first days of the war, around the 20 film groups were already sent to the front, and there were also much more numerous warlords of print media. By the way, the words of the famous song "and even with a machine gun" - this is not the bravado of "feather sharks" trying to exaggerate their contribution to the victory. Many war correspondents were servicemen — officers of the Red Army, and in the most dangerous moments of the battle, they replaced the failed commanders.
Glorious is the feat of Sergey Alexandrovich Borzenko (1909-1972), who served as the war correspondent for the 18 Army newspaper “The Banner of the Motherland” of the North Caucasus Front. In July, the 1942 quartermaster of the 3 rank of Borzenko was awarded the medal "For Courage" - he was in the front attacking chain of the battalion and showed courage in repelling the attacks of the Germans. In November 1942, Borzenko was awarded the Order of the Red Star - in the area of the stanitsa of Khodyzhenskaya Borzenko, who was in the reconnaissance group as a liaison officer, destroying the enemy with machine gun fire and grenades. But Sergey Aleksandrovich accomplished the main feat during the Kerch-Eltigen operation. Voenkor Borzenko was sent by the newspaper Znamya Rodiny to the location of the 318 of the Novorossiysk mountain rifle division. Captain N.A. Marine Corps Battalion Belyakov, attached to the 1339-th Mountain Regiment, was supposed to land on the Crimean coast. Along with the Marines, Borzenko, a military leader, was confronted by the editorial staff who set the task of writing a report on the entry of Soviet troops on the land of the Crimean peninsula. October 31 1943, near 22.00, in the Taman area, the Marines of Captain Belyakov and Borzenko, a military commissar, plunged into a low-speed bot and on the night of November 1, 1943, forced the Kerch Strait under attack from the Nazis. Marines landed on the peninsula.
During the landing operation killed all the officers of the detachment. The only officer among the marines was Major Borzenko. And he more than justified his military rank. Voenkor led marines, ordering to make a passage in the wire fence. Borzenko led the defense of the captured bridgehead, temporarily turning from a journalist into a commander of the Marine Corps. But, at the same time, Sergey Aleksandrovich, faithful to his duty as a front-line correspondent, did not forget about his main task - he wrote an 50-line report for several minutes and passed it on to a co-worker for delivery to Taman. Within a few hours, the Znamya Rodiny newspaper published an article entitled “Our troops broke into the Crimea!”.
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 17, 1943, the major of the administrative service Borzenko, Sergei Alexandrovich, was awarded the high rank of Hero of the Soviet Union. Many famous Soviet writers, poets, and publicists also worked as war correspondents in the terrible years of World War II. Among them were, for example, Mikhail Sholokhov, Konstantin Simonov, Leonid Panteleev. Playwright and screenwriter Johann Zeltser served as editor of the Baltic newspaper fleet. He died in the line of duty of a journalist on a battleship which was sunk by Hitler’s aviation.
Everyone knows the name of the famous Tatar poet, writer and publicist Musa Jalil - Musa Mustafovich Dzhalilov (1906-1944), who fought in the rank of senior political instructor and former correspondent of the newspaper "Courage". Musa Jalil was captured, but not taken aback - he imitated the transition to the side of the Nazis and was sent to the Legion “Idel-Ural” created by the Nazis from representatives of the peoples of the Volga region. There Musa Jalil began to conduct underground work, was engaged in the organization of escapes of prisoners of war. However, in the end, the group of Musa Jalil and his comrades was exposed. 25 August 1944, in the prison of Plötzensee, Musa Jalil, was executed. But the posthumous award he deserved overtook the hero not immediately - only in 1956, Musa Jalil was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
We owe to war correspondents and journalists not only the fact that with their reports and articles they morale the fighters of the Red Army and the Navy, they shaped the triumphant mood, dispelled the false myths of Hitler’s propaganda. It is the military officers, these brave people with cameras, captured many of those very moments, looking at which we today have an idea of the harsh wartime. Photos of soldiers and officers, liberated cities and villages, Nazi prisoners, dramatic battle episodes, capturing evidence of war crimes by Hitler's troops - all this is the work of war correspondents. At the same time, the war correspondents themselves got into the frame quite rarely - not before that.
Not years, decades. And on the land of the former once united country, new tests have fallen. The bloody war in the Donbass began. 17 June 2014 of the year in the area of the village Metalist near Lugansk under the mortar shelling of the Ukrainian troops hit the crew of VGTRK working there. Twenty-six-year-old sound engineer Anton Dmitrievich Voloshin (1987-2014) died immediately. Thirty-seven-year-old special correspondent Igor Vladimirovich Kornelyuk (1977-2014) died thirty five minutes later in the hospital. 20 June 2014, Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin with the Order of Courage (posthumously). 17 June 2015, a memorial plaque was opened on the VGTRK building in Moscow.
Almost two weeks later, on the night of 30 in June 2014 of the year, near Avdeevka, in 15 km from Donetsk, opposite the Spartak state farm, the crew of the First Channel came under fire. Cameraman Anatoly S. Klyan (1946-2014) was wounded in the stomach, which turned out to be fatal for him. Anatoly Sergeyevich was a middle-aged man. He was already 68 years old, behind his shoulders - more than forty years of work on television, business trips to the “hot spots” of Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Syria. Donbass was the last combat mission of this wonderful man and professional. 2 July 2014. Anatoly Klyan was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. 1 July 2015 was a memorial plaque unveiled on the building of the Ostankino television technical center in memory of the operator Anatoly Sergeyevich Klyane.
6 August 2014, near the town of Snezhnoye in the Donbas, Andrei Stenin (1980-2014), special photo correspondent of the Joint Directorate of Photo Information MIA Russia Today, died under fire. He was only thirty-three years old. Since 13 May 2014, Andrei has been on a dangerous and difficult business trip to Ukraine. He shot his famous footage in Kiev, Donetsk, Lugansk, Mariupol, Shakhtersk and Slavyansk. 5 September 2014, Andrei Stenin was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. He became the fourth Russian journalist who died in the Donbas in the bloody summer of 2014. In honor of Andrei Stenin, a school was named in the village of Gnyatskoye on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
But not only in the war zone, journalists died trying to objectively cover the dramatic events that unfolded on the territory of a neighboring state. A journalist does not have to go to the front to risk his life. 13 July 2014 was found in a forest belt near Dnepropetrovsk, the body of a man with traces of brutal torture. It was the missing 18 of June in Mariupol, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Mariupol newspaper I Want in the USSR Sergei Dolgov. Presumably he could have been kidnapped and killed by fighters from one of the Ukrainian units.
16 April 2015, near 13: 20 in Kiev, Oles Aleksandrovich Buzin was shot dead by unknown persons near his own house. A writer and journalist, a very talented and interesting person, Oles Buzina has long held a critical position in relation to the authorities of Ukraine and the national policy pursued in this country. Oles Buzin, in the middle of 2000-s, declared that nationalist, right-wing sentiments are gaining momentum in Ukraine.
A supporter of the trinity of the Russian people, Oles Buzin called himself both Russian and Ukrainian at the same time. He very sharply criticized the policy of the Ukrainian state, especially after the very nationalists, whom he spoke against in the middle of 2000, in 2014, came to power on the wave of Euromaidan. The murder of Olesya Elderberry, many authors put on a par with the 65 occurred years earlier the murder of the famous Ukrainian writer Yaroslav Galan. Recall that Galan, who was also a fiery exposer and opponent of Nazism, was brutally murdered by a Ukrainian nationalist, who was able to ingratiate himself with the writer.
In this mourning series, one cannot help but recall the colleagues who were killed in the recent crash of the Tu-154 aircraft over the Black Sea. On board the aircraft were three film crews of federal TV channels. The crew of Channel One included correspondent Dmitry Runkov, cameraman Vadim Denisov and sound engineer Alexander Soidov. The film crew of the NTV channel was represented by the correspondent Mikhail Luzhitsky, sound engineer Evgeny Tolstov and cameraman Oleg Pestov. From the TV channel "Star" in Syria on a Tu-154 plane went to the journalist Pavel Obukhov, cameraman Alexander Suranov and assistant cameraman Valery Rzhevsky. All this is young men, excellent professionals.
Anton Nikolayevich Gubankov (154-2), State Counselor of the Russian Federation 1965 class, who was aboard the Tu-2016 of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, was a journalist with a lot of experience. Since 1985, he has worked in various media. In 2012-2013 Anton Gubankov served as Minister of Culture of the Moscow Region, from which he assumed the post of Director of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense.
Of course, in the format of a small article one can’t even mention any significant part of the total number of journalists and media workers who died in the line of duty. But to all of them - the eternal memory.
In our difficult times, the work of a journalist is not only the coverage of certain events, an attempt to get to the bottom of what is happening. The press has long been one of the most important tools for modern information warfare. Sooner or later, the author, publicist, journalist, especially those who write on political topics, is confronted with the question of which side of the barricades he is on. And the main thing is to make the right choice, staying with your country and your people. On Print Day, it remains to wish all colleagues who honestly fulfill their duties, endless creative energy, continuous improvement of professional skills, health, and that without loss.
On the Day of the Russian press or the days coming to it all over Russia, branches of the Union of Journalists of Russia, editorial teams, and simply friendly companies of colleagues hold various festive events and festive meetings. They honor the veterans of the press, congratulate each other, do not forget about the youth. But no less important thing that real journalists do not forget is to remember their departed colleagues, including those who died while performing their professional duties. Despite the fact that most journalists are peaceful people, many have never held another in their hands. weaponsbesides cameras, dictaphones and keyboards, this is one of the most dangerous professions at present.
Thousands of journalists are currently located in almost all the “hot spots” of the planet. They do not have military weapons, but they risk no less than armed soldiers, often in the most dangerous places, literally “on the front lines”. But besides the “military” journalists, to one degree or another, virtually every member of the profession, which the inhabitants called “the second oldest”, is at risk. A journalist of the most seedy provincial newspaper, the most obscure television channel or site, can touch on the “wrong” topic and suffer for it. The scale of revenge of the “heroes” of publications is varied - from a bomb in a car to abandoned drugs, from beating at the entrance to a supposedly accidental traffic accident.
Much has been written about the glorious path of military journalists during the Great Patriotic War. "With a watering can and a notebook, and even with a machine gun," the workers of the Soviet press were invariably on the most dangerous sectors of the front, next to ordinary soldiers and commanders of the Red Army. In the very first days of the war, around the 20 film groups were already sent to the front, and there were also much more numerous warlords of print media. By the way, the words of the famous song "and even with a machine gun" - this is not the bravado of "feather sharks" trying to exaggerate their contribution to the victory. Many war correspondents were servicemen — officers of the Red Army, and in the most dangerous moments of the battle, they replaced the failed commanders.
Glorious is the feat of Sergey Alexandrovich Borzenko (1909-1972), who served as the war correspondent for the 18 Army newspaper “The Banner of the Motherland” of the North Caucasus Front. In July, the 1942 quartermaster of the 3 rank of Borzenko was awarded the medal "For Courage" - he was in the front attacking chain of the battalion and showed courage in repelling the attacks of the Germans. In November 1942, Borzenko was awarded the Order of the Red Star - in the area of the stanitsa of Khodyzhenskaya Borzenko, who was in the reconnaissance group as a liaison officer, destroying the enemy with machine gun fire and grenades. But Sergey Aleksandrovich accomplished the main feat during the Kerch-Eltigen operation. Voenkor Borzenko was sent by the newspaper Znamya Rodiny to the location of the 318 of the Novorossiysk mountain rifle division. Captain N.A. Marine Corps Battalion Belyakov, attached to the 1339-th Mountain Regiment, was supposed to land on the Crimean coast. Along with the Marines, Borzenko, a military leader, was confronted by the editorial staff who set the task of writing a report on the entry of Soviet troops on the land of the Crimean peninsula. October 31 1943, near 22.00, in the Taman area, the Marines of Captain Belyakov and Borzenko, a military commissar, plunged into a low-speed bot and on the night of November 1, 1943, forced the Kerch Strait under attack from the Nazis. Marines landed on the peninsula. During the landing operation killed all the officers of the detachment. The only officer among the marines was Major Borzenko. And he more than justified his military rank. Voenkor led marines, ordering to make a passage in the wire fence. Borzenko led the defense of the captured bridgehead, temporarily turning from a journalist into a commander of the Marine Corps. But, at the same time, Sergey Aleksandrovich, faithful to his duty as a front-line correspondent, did not forget about his main task - he wrote an 50-line report for several minutes and passed it on to a co-worker for delivery to Taman. Within a few hours, the Znamya Rodiny newspaper published an article entitled “Our troops broke into the Crimea!”.
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 17, 1943, the major of the administrative service Borzenko, Sergei Alexandrovich, was awarded the high rank of Hero of the Soviet Union. Many famous Soviet writers, poets, and publicists also worked as war correspondents in the terrible years of World War II. Among them were, for example, Mikhail Sholokhov, Konstantin Simonov, Leonid Panteleev. Playwright and screenwriter Johann Zeltser served as editor of the Baltic newspaper fleet. He died in the line of duty of a journalist on a battleship which was sunk by Hitler’s aviation.
Everyone knows the name of the famous Tatar poet, writer and publicist Musa Jalil - Musa Mustafovich Dzhalilov (1906-1944), who fought in the rank of senior political instructor and former correspondent of the newspaper "Courage". Musa Jalil was captured, but not taken aback - he imitated the transition to the side of the Nazis and was sent to the Legion “Idel-Ural” created by the Nazis from representatives of the peoples of the Volga region. There Musa Jalil began to conduct underground work, was engaged in the organization of escapes of prisoners of war. However, in the end, the group of Musa Jalil and his comrades was exposed. 25 August 1944, in the prison of Plötzensee, Musa Jalil, was executed. But the posthumous award he deserved overtook the hero not immediately - only in 1956, Musa Jalil was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
We owe to war correspondents and journalists not only the fact that with their reports and articles they morale the fighters of the Red Army and the Navy, they shaped the triumphant mood, dispelled the false myths of Hitler’s propaganda. It is the military officers, these brave people with cameras, captured many of those very moments, looking at which we today have an idea of the harsh wartime. Photos of soldiers and officers, liberated cities and villages, Nazi prisoners, dramatic battle episodes, capturing evidence of war crimes by Hitler's troops - all this is the work of war correspondents. At the same time, the war correspondents themselves got into the frame quite rarely - not before that.
Not years, decades. And on the land of the former once united country, new tests have fallen. The bloody war in the Donbass began. 17 June 2014 of the year in the area of the village Metalist near Lugansk under the mortar shelling of the Ukrainian troops hit the crew of VGTRK working there. Twenty-six-year-old sound engineer Anton Dmitrievich Voloshin (1987-2014) died immediately. Thirty-seven-year-old special correspondent Igor Vladimirovich Kornelyuk (1977-2014) died thirty five minutes later in the hospital. 20 June 2014, Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin with the Order of Courage (posthumously). 17 June 2015, a memorial plaque was opened on the VGTRK building in Moscow.
Almost two weeks later, on the night of 30 in June 2014 of the year, near Avdeevka, in 15 km from Donetsk, opposite the Spartak state farm, the crew of the First Channel came under fire. Cameraman Anatoly S. Klyan (1946-2014) was wounded in the stomach, which turned out to be fatal for him. Anatoly Sergeyevich was a middle-aged man. He was already 68 years old, behind his shoulders - more than forty years of work on television, business trips to the “hot spots” of Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Syria. Donbass was the last combat mission of this wonderful man and professional. 2 July 2014. Anatoly Klyan was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. 1 July 2015 was a memorial plaque unveiled on the building of the Ostankino television technical center in memory of the operator Anatoly Sergeyevich Klyane.
6 August 2014, near the town of Snezhnoye in the Donbas, Andrei Stenin (1980-2014), special photo correspondent of the Joint Directorate of Photo Information MIA Russia Today, died under fire. He was only thirty-three years old. Since 13 May 2014, Andrei has been on a dangerous and difficult business trip to Ukraine. He shot his famous footage in Kiev, Donetsk, Lugansk, Mariupol, Shakhtersk and Slavyansk. 5 September 2014, Andrei Stenin was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. He became the fourth Russian journalist who died in the Donbas in the bloody summer of 2014. In honor of Andrei Stenin, a school was named in the village of Gnyatskoye on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
But not only in the war zone, journalists died trying to objectively cover the dramatic events that unfolded on the territory of a neighboring state. A journalist does not have to go to the front to risk his life. 13 July 2014 was found in a forest belt near Dnepropetrovsk, the body of a man with traces of brutal torture. It was the missing 18 of June in Mariupol, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Mariupol newspaper I Want in the USSR Sergei Dolgov. Presumably he could have been kidnapped and killed by fighters from one of the Ukrainian units.
16 April 2015, near 13: 20 in Kiev, Oles Aleksandrovich Buzin was shot dead by unknown persons near his own house. A writer and journalist, a very talented and interesting person, Oles Buzina has long held a critical position in relation to the authorities of Ukraine and the national policy pursued in this country. Oles Buzin, in the middle of 2000-s, declared that nationalist, right-wing sentiments are gaining momentum in Ukraine.
A supporter of the trinity of the Russian people, Oles Buzin called himself both Russian and Ukrainian at the same time. He very sharply criticized the policy of the Ukrainian state, especially after the very nationalists, whom he spoke against in the middle of 2000, in 2014, came to power on the wave of Euromaidan. The murder of Olesya Elderberry, many authors put on a par with the 65 occurred years earlier the murder of the famous Ukrainian writer Yaroslav Galan. Recall that Galan, who was also a fiery exposer and opponent of Nazism, was brutally murdered by a Ukrainian nationalist, who was able to ingratiate himself with the writer.
In this mourning series, one cannot help but recall the colleagues who were killed in the recent crash of the Tu-154 aircraft over the Black Sea. On board the aircraft were three film crews of federal TV channels. The crew of Channel One included correspondent Dmitry Runkov, cameraman Vadim Denisov and sound engineer Alexander Soidov. The film crew of the NTV channel was represented by the correspondent Mikhail Luzhitsky, sound engineer Evgeny Tolstov and cameraman Oleg Pestov. From the TV channel "Star" in Syria on a Tu-154 plane went to the journalist Pavel Obukhov, cameraman Alexander Suranov and assistant cameraman Valery Rzhevsky. All this is young men, excellent professionals.
Anton Nikolayevich Gubankov (154-2), State Counselor of the Russian Federation 1965 class, who was aboard the Tu-2016 of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, was a journalist with a lot of experience. Since 1985, he has worked in various media. In 2012-2013 Anton Gubankov served as Minister of Culture of the Moscow Region, from which he assumed the post of Director of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense.
Of course, in the format of a small article one can’t even mention any significant part of the total number of journalists and media workers who died in the line of duty. But to all of them - the eternal memory.
In our difficult times, the work of a journalist is not only the coverage of certain events, an attempt to get to the bottom of what is happening. The press has long been one of the most important tools for modern information warfare. Sooner or later, the author, publicist, journalist, especially those who write on political topics, is confronted with the question of which side of the barricades he is on. And the main thing is to make the right choice, staying with your country and your people. On Print Day, it remains to wish all colleagues who honestly fulfill their duties, endless creative energy, continuous improvement of professional skills, health, and that without loss.
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