Zvezda Altaia

(Star of Altai), oblast newspaper of the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Oblast, RSFSR. It is published in Russian in the town of Gorno-Altaisk. Founded in 1922, it was first issued under the title Oiratskii krai, then Krasnaia Oirotiia, and since 1948as Zvezda Altaia. The newspaper is published five times a week. In 1972 it had a circulation of 10,000.