Annual file of the magazine "Red Army man", 1941

The annual hardcover edition of the magazine is in good collector's condition, the back cover and spine are lost. The size is 22*28 cm. Paramilitary. The original. We recommend it! 

The magazine was founded in April 1919 as the literary and artistic magazine of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army "Red Army Soldier". There was an inscription on the bundles of the magazine that came to the active army: "To deliver on a par with ammunition," because even at that time the Bolsheviks understood that the literary word inspires and leads to battle more effectively than orders and leaflets. In 1929, for the 10th anniversary of the magazine, he received a new name - "Red Army Soldier and Red Navy Man". In 1937, it was renamed again into the magazine "Red Army Man".

On the first military issue of the magazine, published at the end of June 1941, the famous poster by I. Toidze "Motherland calls!" was published for the first time in the country. Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov gave a high assessment of the magazine's activities. In an address to the editorial board in connection with the anniversary, he wrote: "The magazine "Red Army Soldier" has become the most beloved and popular magazine at the front, a true friend of the soldier's soul."

During the war years, the circulation of the magazine rose from twenty to two hundred and fifty thousand copies per month. Since 1942, the Library of the Red Army began to be published. At first it was conceived as satirical. Let's just say it's to lift the spirits of soldiers and sailors. But later, the library clearly became more serious. And it gained all-Union popularity. With an obvious book shortage in the country, she made up for many books inaccessible to the reader, although she printed them because of their small volume in an abbreviated form. The library was closed only in the crucial year 1991.

At the end of the war, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 15, 1944, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star (Order number 521905). In 1947, it was renamed the "Soviet Warrior". It existed under this name until 1992. Since that time, it has been called "I have the honor." In 1994, it was transferred to the subordination of the Press Service of the Ministry of Defense, renamed the magazine "Warrior" and began to be published once a month. Since 1997, the magazine has been called "Warrior of Russia".

The magazine had the largest circulation in the late eighties ‒ one and a half million copies per month. The success was, of course, largely due to Gorbachev's glasnost, and maybe also to the fact that a good creative team was selected, many of the things that were previously forbidden were allowed. The staff of the magazine was huge by today's standards ‒ almost one hundred and fifty people: sixty officers and eighty civilian staff. The magazine had monthly digests in six languages of the world ‒ English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. There was a library, an illustrated application and a youth application "Combat Comrade". They wanted to duplicate it in the languages of all Soviet republics and even recruited staff in some of them, but not a single number came out. The editorial board had a video application and even released one documentary. After a number of organizational procedures, this video application turned into the now famous Zvezda TV channel twenty years later.

The magazine has a glorious literary history. In Soviet times, writers who were the pride of our literature were published on its pages. The first chapters of Alexander Tvardovsky's famous poem "Vasily Terkin" were printed in one of the issues of The Red Army Soldier. The authors of the magazine at various times were Mikhail Sholokhov and Leonid Leonov, Alexey Surkov and Valentin Pikul, Yuri Bondarev and Valentin Rasputin, Vasily Belov and Evgeny Nosov. The magazine first revealed to the country the name of the aspiring director of the former sailor of the Black Sea Fleet Vasily Shukshin in a material published in 1955. In 1969, our magazine was the first in the country to publish the novel "Seventeen Moments of Spring" by Julian Semenov. Along with the true masters of our literature, novice authors in uniform were published in almost every issue. The magazine "Warrior of Russia" is faithful to this glorious tradition to this day.

Over the long history of the magazine, there have been many medal-bearers, laureates of all kinds of prizes and just famous people in the editorial office, but Vasily Efanov, a full-time illustrator of the Red Army magazine from 1926 to 1932, is considered the most awarded. His hand-drawn covers of those years really differ in clarity and volume. Subsequently, when he had already left the magazine for Bolshoe Iskusstvo, Efanov received five Stalin Prizes for his monumental canvases, became a People's Artist of the USSR and a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts.

Leonid Yakutin, a photojournalist of our publication, has also achieved world-class recognition. His series of photographs "On the land of Vietnam" was awarded the United Nations Prize at the exhibition "World Press Photo-1979". The former editor-in-chief of the playwright magazine, retired Colonel Yuri Vinogradov, became a laureate of the G.K. Zhukov State Prize several years ago.

In 2004, the magazine "Warrior of Russia" was awarded the Order "For Service to the Fatherland" of the 3rd degree by the decision of the award commission of the National Charitable Foundation "Eternal Glory to Heroes!". In 2006, the magazine received a special Sergey Smirnov award from the State Committee for Press Affairs of the Russian Federation at the Patriot of Russia competition

In 2010, the editorial office, together with the Nauka-XXI Foundation, held an all-Russian poster contest dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The awarding of the winners took place within the framework of the exhibition-forum "Army and Society" in the Manege.

The magazine was awarded a diploma for 1st place in the competition of the Government of Moscow and the Union of Journalists of Russia "Thank you for life" in the nomination "Military history of my family", a diploma of the Nauka-XXI Foundation for active participation in the Exhibition-Forum "Army and Society", as well as a diploma of the 2nd degree of the International competition among editorial offices of the military press of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States for the best journalistic work dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.

 From 2006 to 2018, the magazine or its authors have consistently won prizes at the All-Russian Patriot of Russia competition.