Znanie – Sila

{{Short description|Soviet and Russian popular science magazine}}

Znanie — Sila ({{langx|ru|Знание-сила}}, Knowledge is Power) is a monthly illustrated popular science magazine for youth. It publishes popular articles in various areas of science and science fiction stories.[https://old.bigenc.ru/domestic_history/text/1994670 «ЗНА́НИЕ – СИ́ЛА»], Great Russian Encyclopedia

The title is the aphorism Scientia potentia est in Russian.

History

It was established in 1926, targeting teenagers. In 1928, the coverage of life sciences was transferred to the new magazine {{ill|Young Naturalist|ru|Юный натуралист (журнал)}}, while the rest of the sciences continued to be covered by Knowledge is Power. During 1941-1945 (World War II) the magazine was on hiatus. Since 1946, the target audience also included young adults. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the loss of state patronage the staff of the magazine and its circulation were severely trimmed.[https://znanie-sila.su/istoriya-zhurnala История журнала] (The history of the magazine)

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It circulation reached its peak of 700,000 in 1967.{{ill|Ilya Kukulin|ru|Кукулин, Илья Владимирович}}, [https://magazines.gorky.media/nlo/2017/3/periodika-dlya-itr-sovetskie-nauchno-populyarnye-zhurnaly-i-modelirovanie-interesov-pozdnesovetskoj-nauchno-tehnicheskoj-intelligenczii.html Периодика для ИТР: советские научно-популярные журналы и моделирование интересов позднесоветской научно-технической интеллигенции], {{ill|New Literary Review|ru|Новое литературное обозрение (журнал)}} magazine, no. 3, 2017