Znamya is a Russia

Russia

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n monthly magazine

Magazine

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, which was established in Moscow

Moscow

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 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

Red Army

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 and Fleet

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). During the Soviet times, Znamya dedicated most of its pages to short stories and novels about the military

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...

, publishing works by Konstantin Simonov

Konstantin Simonov

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, Vasily Grossman, Pavel Antokolsky

Pavel Antokolsky

Pavel Grigoryevich Antokolsky - a Russian poet, a nephew of Mark Antokolsky. His poem, "All we who in his name..." was written in 1956, the year of Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech" condemning Stalinism, and widely circulated among student groups in the 1950s.Pavel Antokolsky translated in...

 and others. Znamya has different sections dedicated to prose

Prose

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, poetry

Poetry

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, essay

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s, literary criticism

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, bibliography

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etc. In 1972, the magazine had a circulation of some 160,000 copies.