Under the Soviet state, the paper published the work of famous writers and poets, including Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nikolai Rubtsov, Yuri Nagibin, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

[citation needed] In the years following the end of the Soviet Union, about 21 million of these readers were lost and the paper fell into decline.

In February 2008, the daily newspaper was completely re-branded, the format changed from broadsheet to full-color tabloid, and the only nationwide job classifieds section included.

The announced reason was to cut costs and improve the profitability of all the businesses held by the media company Media3.

[6] In January 2012, Trud was purchased from Media3 by Newspaper "Labor" LLC and returned to its historic building at 9 Grand Dmitrovka Street.