Dnipro

Dnipro (Дніпро, English: Deep River) is a monthly colour literary magazine in Ukraine. Published as Dnipro since 1944, it has its origins in the Molodniak magazine of 1927. The magazine features prose, contemporary poetry, modern Ukrainian drama, interviews, and reviews. The magazine is known for publishing the works of repressed artists and artists in exile during the Soviet era. It also helped return a number of writers to Ukraine following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In the mid-1990s, Dnipros editors published a four-volume collection of Ukrainian literary works which was distributed to libraries and universities. History The magazine was founded during the Soviet era. It began as Molodniak magazine (Молодняк; Young Generation) in 1927, founded by CC CLUYU (Ukrainian: ЦК ЛКСМУ; Lenin Communist Union of Youth of Ukraine) and published in Kharkiv, Ukraine SSR. It moved to Kyiv in 1935 and changed its name to Molodyi Bilshovyk (Молодий Більшовик; Young Bolsheviks) in 1937. In 1944, it received its current title Dnipro (Дніпро, English: Deep River).