Znamya

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Znamya

180 px Cover of Znamya
Editor	Sergey Chuprinin
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	4,500
Year founded	1931
Country	Russia
Based in	123001, Moscow, Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, b. 2/46
Language	Russian
ISSN	0130-1616

Znamya (Russian: Знамя, lit. "The Banner") is a Russian monthly literary magazine, which was established in Moscow in 1931. In 1931-1932, the magazine was published under the name of Lokaf ("Локаф", which was an abbreviation of "Литературное объединение писателей Красной Армии и флота", or Literary Association of Writers of the Red Army and Fleet). During the Soviet times, Znamya dedicated most of its pages to short stories and novels about the military, publishing works by Konstantin Simonov, Vasily Grossman, Pavel Antokolsky and others. Znamya has different sections dedicated to prose, poetry, essays, literary criticism, bibliography etc. In 1972, the magazine had a circulation of some 160,000 copies.

See also

• List of literary magazines

External links

• Official website (Russian)