 The first newspaper in the Yakut language was called “Manchaary”, the first issue of which was published in 28 December 1921.Two years later, a commission of three people — the People's Commissar of the Interior Stepan Arzhakova (), Commissar of Education Ilya Vinokurov () and member of the board of Kholbos M. Popov - decided to make the newspaper periodical and give it a new name - “Kyym”.The first publishers of the newspaper were Platon Oyunsky, Maxim Ammosov (), Anempodist Sofronov ().