[Seven Days] Sem’ Dney. Weekly journal. Seven issues. 1928. Everyday life in Uzbekistan in the 1920s.

[Seven Days] Sem’ Dney. Weekly journal. ## 4, 7, 12, 42, 45, 47 and 51.  1928.

Tashkent: Pravda Vostoka, 1928-1929. 4to (310x230mm).

In original illustrated wrappers. Darkened, yellowed, edges chipped. Brittle. Text slightly faded. Several pages uncut. Overall in good condition.

Extremely rare. Nearly impossible to find in this condition.

Sem’ Dney was a weekly supplement journal for the daily newspaper Pravda Vostoka (The truth of the East). It covered a wide range of subjects, from state and local news to literary works, essays, and poetry; however, it can be said that the main concept of the journal was a literary one. 

The only prevailing records of the journal's editions and publication details can be found in advertisement brochures of the time, since the journal itself has next to no editorial information, and many of the authors and editors at the time were either shortening their names, or using pseudonyms. It can be assumed that Sem’ Dney shared most of its editorial team with Pravda Vostoka; hence the similarities in design.

Several famous Soviet writers are associated with the journal: Mickhail Sheverdin, had many of his early works published on its pages as well as Gabriel Ureklyan (El-Registan), best-known as the co-writer of the lyrics to the first State Anthem of the Soviet Union (1943).

Avangard painter Alexander Volkov had his works displayed on its pages; at the time he was a professor in Tashkent School of Arts, and only in a few years time he would have several canvases purchased by the State Tretyakov Gallery and the State Russian Museum; his picture Morning in Shakhimardan would be sent to Philadelphia as a part of Soviet Art Exhibition (1934). His art then would be deemed anti-socialist and counterrevolutionary.