…The first issue of the oldest national newspaper Turkmenistan, which is published until our days, has been first released in Ashgabat (Poltoratzk this is how Turkmen capital was called back then) 100 years ago on July 29, 1920. 600 newspapers have been printed in Turkmen language and Arabic script, which was used in our country until 1929.
It was two-page party magazine, which main goals were a political propaganda and cultural and educational mission on the background of historical events of that time.Gubaduylla Husayinov (1892 1948) was the first editor-in-chief of the newspaper while Yakub Nasyrly (1899 1958), which later has become a famous poet and ...