Chizh (magazine)

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Chizh
CategoriesChildren's magazine
Circulation100,000 (in 1938)
PublisherDetgiz
Founded1930
CountrySoviet Union
Based inLeningrad
LanguageRussian

Chizh (Russian: Чиж) was a Soviet journal for children, published monthly from 1930 to 1941.

History

The magazine was first published in January 1930. It was originally came out as a supplement to the Yozh children's magazine, but in 1932 the journal started to be issued as an independent publication.[1]

By 1936, the circulation was 75 000 copies. During this period, the content of the magazine was already strongly ideologized, but it was still interesting.[1]

In 1938, the circulation of The Chizh was 100 000 copies.[1]

Mikhail Zoshchenko, Lev Kvitko, Yuri German and Elena Danko were published in the magazine.[1]

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