The Chernobyl Newspapers Collection includes three previously unavailable local newspapers – Prapor peremohy (Прапор перемоги, Victory Flag), Tribuna Energetika (Трибуна Энергетика, Energy Workers' Tribune), and Trybuna pratsi (Трибуна праці, Labor Tribune) – published in towns in the exclusion zone and its immediate vicinity. The newspapers Prapor peremohy and Trybuna pratsi (both in Ukrainian) provide researchers with an opportunity to explore the larger socio-cultural and historical context of the regions affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Tribuna Energetika, published in Russian under the aegis of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, provides insight into the everyday life of the power plant and the city of Pripyat. It includes coverage of the operation of the power plant, its construction and expansion operations, as well as the life of the community of workers and specialists stationed there. Together these three publications offer researchers unique access to important lesser-known primary sources from the era, providing essential information for study of the social background and history of the Chernobyl disaster.
Please note: this newspaper archive is also accessible within the East View Global Press Archive and can be accessed on the Global Press Archive platform, which allows interoperability with a large number of global newspaper titles.
Known Gaps
East View Information Services has acquired issues to complete this archive from a variety of sources. The archive contains the best-known copy available for all obtainable published issues. However, select issues are still missing (see details below). If your institution has any of these issues in its collection and is willing to make them available, please contact [email protected]..
Prapor peremogy: 1984: 116; 1985: 19, 36; 1986: 55; 1988: 48-52.
Tribuna Energetika: 1986: 18, 20, 22, 25, 33, 61; 1987: 15, 25; 1988: 6; 1989: 4, 8, 12, 19, 20; 1990: 4, 18.
Trybuna pratsi: 1990: 83-97, 117, 119-124, 127, 134-156.