The newspaper and magazine information and propaganda complex of the Soviet Union by 1985 represented 13.5 thousand periodicals. This was, including 40 all-union, 160 republican, 329 regional, regional, district, 711 city, 3020 district, 3317 grass-roots, 97 newspapers of autonomous republics and regions.
Newspapers were published in 55 languages of the peoples of the USSR and 9 languages of foreign countries.
Among the newly created newspapers, special attention should be paid to "Soviet Russia" (1956), "Socialist Industry" (1969), "Literature and Life" (1957, "Literary Russia" from 1963), "Za Vredomie" (1960) was published under the editorship of AM Gorky - from 1932 to 1938), the mass republican "Rabochaya Gazeta" (1957, published in Kiev in Ukrainian and Russian), "Book Review" (1966) - weekly of the Press Committee of the Council Ministers of the USSR.