MOSCOW, September 1. / TASS /. Roscosmos congratulated the TASS news agency on its 117th birthday.
“Today marks the 117th anniversary of TASS, the leading news agency. On September 1, 1904, the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency, the first official news service in Russia, began its work. We congratulate our partners on their birthday with this photograph from space,” the state corporation said on Twitter “.
The publication is accompanied by a photograph taken from orbit by the Russian Earth remote sensing satellite “Resurs-P”.
September 1, 2021 marks 117 years of TASS, the leading state news agency in Russia. TASS subscribers are more than 5 thousand media, companies, enterprises, diplomatic missions, etc. in Russia and abroad. As of 2021, the total staff of the agency is 2 thousand employees, the correspondent network operates in 59 cities of Russia and 51 cities in 48 foreign countries.
