A.S. Aivazov in search of ways to open the newspaper “Kyrym Sedasi’’ (“Voice of Crimea”) (1908–1909)

The famous Crimean Tatar writer, publicist, politician and public figure Asan Sabri Aivazov (1878–1938), after the tsarist secret police closed the Karasuvbazar newspaper “Vetan khadimi” (“Servant of the Fatherland”) in May 1908, directed all his efforts to opening a new newspaper called “Kyrym Sedasi” (“Voice of Crimea”). His correspondence with officials of the Tauride Governor’s office and personally with the governor was deposited as a series of documents in file no. 663 (fund 26, inventory no. 3) of the State Archives of the Republic of Crimea (SARC). It is these and a number of other materials and documents that formed the basis of the article, which attempts to briefly reveal the activities of A.S. Aivazov, associated with Crimean Tatar periodicals of the early twentieth century.