The first issue of Na Strazhe Rodiny (Defending the Motherland) newspaper was published on May 1, 1918, under the name Krasnaya Armiya (Red Army). Later, the newspaper was entitled Vooruzhonniy Narod (Armed People), Boyevaya Pravda (Combat Truth), and from November 10, 1921 - Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) as the press organ of the Petrograd Military District. The title Na Strazhe Rodiny (Defending the Motherland) appeared on February 4, 1938, when the newspaper became a press organ of the Leningrad Military District. On April 7, 1940, the newspaper was the first of the district newspapers that received a high award - the Order of the Red Banner. It featured feuilletons about soldier's everyday life during the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940, signed by the pseudonym Vasya Tyorkin - a character created by A. Tvardovsky, N. Tikhonov, S. Vashentsev, V. Sayanov - members of the newspaper’s editorial board. When the Great Patriotic War began, the district newspaper became a frontline newspaper. Since November 2010, the Na Strazhe Rodiny (Defending the Motherland) newspaper has been the press organ of the Western Military District. It is a regional supplement to the Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) newspaper which is a central publication of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Publication frequency: one time per week, on Saturdays.
Presented issues: 1941-1945
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