Nash prapor, newspaper

Nash prapor, newspaper [«Наш прапор»; Our Flag]. A popular illustrated newspaper published in Lviv by the Ukrainska Presa publishing house as a semiweekly (December 1932 to 1935) and then three times a week (1936–9). The editors were Hryhorii Stetsiuk, Vasyl Kachmar, and Ivan S. Kernytsky. In late 1938 it had a circulation of 12,000 copies. The newspaper also published the supplements Amators'kyi teatr (1935–9), edited by Hryhorii Luzhnytsky, and Muzychna biblioteka (1937–9). Its subscribers received free copies of the Ukrainska biblioteka book series. The paper was widely read in both Galicia and Transcarpathia.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]