The year 2022 has left us and taken with it what remained in the past.

     Unfortunately, the printed edition of the newspaper "Russian Life", published for 100 years in San Francisco and uniting generations of Russian émigrés, their children, and grandchildren, is also a thing of the past. Of course, not all of these children and grandchildren read Russian. This fact was decisive in the newspaper's fate. Perhaps new technologies will help unite Russians around the online version, but the newspaper's stench of ink will never return.

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     It's particularly disappointing that the newspaper closed, despite the fact that it had been revived over the past 10 years. The entire editorial team, including Editor-in-Chief E. Ivannikova, N.K. Musikhina, and Yu. Fokin, deserve credit for this. The editorial board of Russkaya Zhizn managed to attract special correspondents from around the world to its publication. Yuri Fokin's creative talent for illustrating articles made the newspaper truly desirable.

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     The newspaper "Russian Life" literally gave life to the entire Russian colony in San Francisco and throughout the world. The Russian colony in San Francisco strove to support the publication. For the last ten years, Anatoly Shmelev served as the chairman of the "Russian Life" newspaper corporation. Mikhail Klestov, head of the Advisory Committee of Russian Organizations in San Francisco, provided systematic support to the newspaper.

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For the San Francisco Museum and Archives of Russian Culture, the demise of the paper newspaper is a great loss! Since the Museum's founding in 1948, reports on its work have been published four times a year, and in the 2000s, the tradition of publishing reports in the newspaper was revived.

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The demise of the print version of the newspaper "Russian Life" is like the passing of a person. It's difficult to survive a separation...

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     It is hoped that the newspaper's board, represented by its new members A. Khidchenko, A. Sadovnikov, and M. Dyachkova, will be able to preserve the newspaper's spirit based on new technological principles.

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     And today I would like to pay tribute to the dedicated staff of the printing house "Russian Life", who maintained its worthy standard until the last issue!