Izvestia Petrogradskogo Soveta Rabochikh Deputatov (The Reports of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers'

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IZVESTIA PETROGRADSKOGO SOVETA RABOCHIKH DEPUTATOV (The Reports of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' Deputies), a daily political newspaper. Its first issue appeared on 28 February 1917. In the course of 1917 the periodical continuously changed its name: Izvestia ZIK i Petrogradskogo Soveta rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov, Izvestia ZIK Sovetov rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov, etc. Until October 1917 the political orientation of the Izvestia was defined by the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionary parties. After the Bolsheviks came to power following the second All-Russian congress of the Soviets, the Izvestia became the organ of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Petrograd Soviet of Workers and Soldier Deputies, promulgated the ideas of the dictatorship of the proletariat, consolidation of the Soviet authority power etc. It was the Izvestia that published the first legislative acts of the Bolsheviks -the Decree on Peace and Decree on Land. The editorial office was located at 6 Saykin Lane (presently Pechatnik Grigoryev Lane), and in Smolny. From 12 March 1918 the newspaper was published in Moscow (today known as Izvestia).

D. N. Cherdakov.