Yunyye Bezbozhniki

Yunyye Bezbozhniki: zhurnal shkol'nogo bezbozhnogo aktiva (Russian: «Юные безбожники: журнал школьного безбожного актива»; translation of the name: «Young Atheists: Magazine of Atheist Schoolchildren-Activists», or «Young Godless: Magazine of Godless Schoolchildren-Activists») was a monthly magazine for schoolchildren, an organ of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR and the Central Soviet of the League of Militant Atheists of the USSR.[1]

Yunyye Bezbozhniki (Юные безбожники)

Cover of the magazine «Yunyye bezbozhniki» 1931. No. 3 - 4. May - June
Editor	I. A. Flerov
Categories	antireligious
Frequency	Monthly
Founded	March, 1931
Final issue	January, 1933
Country	Soviet Union/Russia
Based in	Moscow
Language	Russian

It was published in Moscow from March 1931 to February 1933.[2] A total of 23 issues were printed. «Yunyye Bezbozhniki» gave a broad and entertaining information on the history of religion and atheism, science, technology, as well as on the atheistic movement among young people in the USSR and abroad. The magazine provided scientific and methodological assistance in the atheistic education of students, summarized the experience of anti-religious school circles. The editor-in-chief of the magazine «Yunyye Bezbozhniki» was the famous Moscow teacher-atheist I. A. Flerov.[3] Editorial Board: N. Amosov,[4] A. Smirnov,[5] I. Flerov.[6] In the magazine published works: L. Kassil, S. Kirsanov, V. Smirnova, M. Gershenzon, G. Gradov,[7] A, Nasimovich, N. Sher[8] and others. The magazine included works by cartoonists D. Moor, P. Staronosov,[9] A. Korotkin,[10] A. Kozlov[11] and others.

The slogan of the magazine, which was printed above the title of the magazine on the right: «The struggle against religion – the struggle for socialism» (Russian: «Борьба против религии — борьба за социализм»). The magazine was published by the Publishing House «Moskovskiy Rabochiy» («Moscow Worker»), OGIZ.[12]