Since the fall of the Soviet Union the newspapers are privately owned.
In 1921, the newspaper "News of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth Union of Ukraine" was published in Kharkiv.
In 1922, it was renamed the Molodoi Rabotnik, which was published twice a week in Russian.
Also it was awarded annually the Ruby Cup for the best scoring team in the Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR.
Over the years of its existence, many publicists, writers and poets were involved into the work of Molod Ukrayiny: Vasyl Symonenko, Maksym Rylsky, Andriy Malyshko, Mykola Vingranovsky, Borys Oliynyk, Vitaliy Korotych, Ivan Drach, Ivan Dziuba, Yevhen Sverstyuk, Vasyl Stus, Stanislav Telnyuk, Ivan Svitlychny, Serhiy Grabovsky, Anatoliy Matviychuk, Viktor Maza.