Why are newspapers who have been published in Gulag for many years, are becoming more and more similar to today's free press Solovki. Archive photo Charms of hard labor The first “camp” newspaper “New Solovki” came out, of course, on Solovki on January 11, 1925. Its actual editor became P.A. Petryaev, writer Boris Shiryaev, a Solovetsky prisoner, who later fled abroad, writes in his memoirs, the Solovetsky prisoner (in 1992, his memoirs were finally published in his homeland).