From Karjalan Kommuuni
to Karjalan Sanomat

Since 1920 the newspaper has changed its name 7 times.
Below you can find the chronology of the newspaper with the names of editors-in-chief.

Karjalan Kommuuni, 1920-1923
Juho Komu - 1920-1922
Onni Tuomi - 1922-1923

Punainen Karjala, 1923-1937
Jalmari Virtanen and Niilo Virtanen - 1923-1924
Santeri Nuorteva - 1924-1926
Lauri Letonmaki - 1926-1931
Otto Vilmi - 1931-1932
Vaino Lattunen - 1932-1934
Kalle Vento - 1934-1937

Sovetskoi Karelija (in the Karelian language), 1938-1940
Pyotr Savelyev - 1938-1939
Ivan Karachev - 1939-1940

Totuus, 1940-1955
Mikko Melentyev - 1940-1947
Yevdokim Yemelyanov - 1947-1951
Feodor Kondratyev - 1951-1954
N. Zakharov - 1954-1955

Leninilainen totuus, 1955-1957
(the Russian language newspaper "Leninskaya pravda" translated into Finnish)
Feodor Trofimov - 1955-1957

Neuvosto-Karjala, 1957-1991
Feodor Kondratyev - 1957-1963
Feodor Trofimov - 1963-1967
(associated with the Russian language newspaper "Leninskaya pravda")
Feodor Kondratyev - 1967-1969
Ivan Petrov - 1969-1971
Juho Laitinen - 1971-1985
Aleksei Mironov - 1986-1991

Karjalan Sanomat, since 1992
Robert Manner