Magazines in the USSR (29 photos). Children's and youth magazines of the USSR and Russia Literary magazines of the Soviet era

Briefly about the most popular magazines of the last century.

In the Soviet Union at one time there were about 200 periodicals of varying degrees of popularity. Today we invite you to remember those of them that left the most vivid mark in the hearts of our readers.

"Funny pictures"

“Funny Pictures” is a children's humor magazine designed for children from 4 to 10 years old. Published in Moscow monthly since September 1956. Along with Murzilka, it was the most popular children's magazine in the USSR in the 1960-80s. In the early 1980s, its circulation reached 9.5 million copies.

"Around the world"

"Behind the wheel"

“Behind the Wheel” is a popular Soviet and Russian Russian-language magazine about cars and the automotive industry. Until 1989, it was the only automobile periodical in the USSR, designed for a wide range of readers. By the end of the 1980s, the magazine's circulation reached 4.5 million copies. It is known, for example, that the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky worked in this magazine.

"Health"

“Health” is a monthly Soviet and Russian magazine about human health and ways to preserve it. Began publishing in January 1955. Initially it was an organ promoting a healthy lifestyle, but later became a full-fledged popular science magazine.

"Knowledge is power"

“Knowledge is Power” is a popular science and art magazine founded in 1926. It published materials about achievements in various fields of science - physics, astronomy, cosmology, biology, history, economics, philosophy, psychology, sociology. The magazine's motto is Francis Bacon's statement: “Knowledge itself is power.”

"Foreign literature"

"Foreign Literature" (IL) is a literary and artistic magazine specializing in the publication of translated literature. Founded in July 1955 as the governing body of the USSR Writers' Union.

For Soviet readers, the magazine was the only opportunity to get acquainted with the work of many major Western writers, whose books were not published in the USSR for censorship reasons.

"Seeker"

“Seeker” is a monthly almanac that publishes adventure, fantasy and detective works, popular science essays, as well as fiction and educational literature for children from 2 to 14 years old. It was founded in 1961, in the year of the centenary of the magazine “Around the World”, as a literary supplement to the latter.

Chapters from the stories of the Strugatsky brothers “Trainees” and “Monday Begins on Saturday” were published for the first time in The Seeker. The magazine's pages featured works by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Clifford Simak, Robert Heinlein, and Robert Sheckley.

"Bonfire"

Sergei Dovlatov worked for this magazine. And it was here that the first publication of Joseph Brodsky in the Soviet press took place. Also, some works of famous foreign children's writers - Gianni Rodari and Astrid Lindgren - were published here for the first time.

"Peasant Woman"

“Peasant Woman” is a periodical published since 1922. The first issue of “Peasant Woman” was published in a circulation of five thousand copies, and in 1973 the circulation reached 6.3 million copies.

The first issue featured an appeal from the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Mikhail Kalinin, to female readers, which explained the role of the publication in introducing working women to the social and cultural life of the country. Each issue was accompanied by a free manual - lessons on cutting and sewing, knitting, fashion, and so on.

Krupskaya and Lunacharsky spoke on the pages of the magazine. Demyan Bedny, Maxim Gorky, Serafimovich, Tvardovsky and other famous writers wrote for him.

"Crocodile"

Krokodil is a satirical magazine founded in 1922 as a supplement to Rabochaya Gazeta. At the end of the 20s, an airplane was built using funds collected from the magazine's subscribers and its employees.

Writers Zoshchenko, Ilf and Petrov, Kataev, artists Kukryniksy and Boris Efimov worked in the magazine on a permanent basis. Bagritsky and Olesha published periodically.

In 1933, the NKVD discovered a “counter-revolutionary formation” in Krokodil that was engaged in “anti-Soviet agitation” in the form of writing and distributing illegal satirical texts. As a result, two magazine employees were arrested, the editorial board was dissolved, and the editor lost his post. By decision of the Organizing Bureau and Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, “Krokodil” was transferred to “Pravda”, and from that time began to participate in all Soviet political campaigns.

Since 1934, Krokodil has been the most important official mouthpiece of politics at all levels of social and political life.

"Horizon"

"Krugozor" is a monthly literary, musical, socio-political and illustrated magazine, with applications in the form of flexible gramophone records. Published in 1964-1992.

At the origins of the magazine were Yuri Vizbor, who worked in it for 7 years since its founding, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, and poet Evgeniy Khramov.

The magazine constantly published songs performed by Soviet pop stars: Kobzon, Obodzinsky, Rotaru, Pugacheva, popular VIA (“Pesnyary”, “Gems”, “Flame”, etc.), and many famous foreign performers, whose recordings were in demand in the Soviet Union significantly exceeded supply.

"Model designer"

“Modelist-constructor” (until 1966 - “Young modeller-constructor”) is a monthly popular scientific and technical magazine.

The first issue of the magazine entitled “Young Model Designer” was published in August 1962 under the guidance of famous aircraft designers A. Tupolev, S. Ilyushin, as well as cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Until 1965, the magazine was published irregularly; a total of 13 issues were published. Since 1966, it became a monthly subscription publication and changed its name to “Modelist-Constructor”.

Each issue of the magazine published drawings and diagrams of a wide variety of designs - from household appliances to homemade microcars and amateur aircraft, as well as materials on the history of technology.

"Murzilka"

"Murzilka" is a popular monthly children's literary and art magazine. From the day of its founding (May 16, 1924) until 1991, it was the printed organ of the Komsomol Central Committee and the Central Council of the All-Union Pioneer Organization named after V.I. Lenin.

Writers such as Samuil Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov, Boris Zakhoder, Agnia Barto and Nikolai Nosov began their creative careers in the magazine.

In 1977-1983, the magazine published a detective-mystery story about Yabeda-Koryabeda and her agents, and in 1979 - science fiction dreams “Travel there and back” (author and artist - A. Semenov).

In 2011, the magazine was included in the Guinness Book of Records. It has been recognized as the longest running children's publication.

"Science and life"

“Science and Life” is a monthly popular science illustrated magazine of a wide profile. It was founded in 1890. The publication was resumed in October 1934. The magazine's circulation in the 1970s-1980s reached 3 million copies and was one of the highest in the USSR.

"Ogonyok"

"Ogonyok" is a socio-political, literary and artistic illustrated weekly magazine. It was founded and published in 1899-1918 in St. Petersburg (Petrograd), and in 1923 it began publishing in Moscow.

In 1918, publication of the magazine ceased and was resumed through the efforts of Mikhail Koltsov in 1923. Until 1940, 36 issues were published per year; since 1940, the magazine turned into a weekly. In 1925-1991, artistic and journalistic brochures were published in the “Library “Ogonyok”” series.

"Sail"

“Parus” (until 1988 “Working Shift”) is an all-Union youth magazine that published fiction stories by both aspiring Soviet authors and world-famous foreign authors. The circulation reached 1 million copies.

The last page of the magazine published covers for cassettes of both domestic groups (“Alice”) and foreign ones (“Animals”). In addition, almost every issue of the magazine published a fantastic story.

"Pioneer"

“Pioneer” is a monthly literary, artistic and socio-political magazine of the Komsomol Central Committee and the Central Council of the All-Union Pioneer Organization named after V.I. Lenin for pioneers and schoolchildren.

The first issue was published on March 15, 1924 and was dedicated to V.I. Lenin. It is considered a bibliographic rarity, since the author of the essay on Lenin was Leon Trotsky, and the published copies were subsequently destroyed.

"Pioneer" had permanent sections on school and pioneer life, journalism, science and technology, art, sports, and children's artistic creativity. In addition, the magazine organized the work of Timur’s teams and detachments.

"Working Girl"

“Rabotnitsa” is a socio-political, literary and artistic magazine for women.

It was established on the initiative of Vladimir Lenin to “protect the interests of the women’s labor movement” and promote the views of the labor movement. The first issue was published on February 23 (March 8, new style) 1914. Until 1923 it was published in St. Petersburg, then in Moscow. Since 1943, “Rabotnitsa” began to be published monthly.

In 1985, the magazine began a three-year series of publications - the Home Academy on Housekeeping and Handicrafts. The Academy program included 4 sections - Cutting and sewing, Knitting, Cooking, Personal care. In post-Soviet times, the magazine appeared sections “Over 50, and everything is fine”, “Man and woman”, “Conversation for two”, “Men in our lives”, “Life history”.

"Coeval"

“Rovesnik” is a youth magazine published since July 1962. The main audience is young people from 14 to 28 years old. In the Soviet Union, existing under the auspices of the Central Committee of the Komsomol and the KMO of the USSR, “Coeval” wrote on topics that were then unique for Soviet youth - such as rock music, the life and culture of foreign youth.

In the 1980s and 1990s, “Rovesnika” published the “Rovesnika Rock Encyclopedia” - practically the first attempt at a rock encyclopedia in Russian. It was written by Sergei Kastalsky, and several encyclopedia articles were published in each issue, in alphabetical order.

"Roman-newspaper"

"Roman-Gazeta" is a Soviet and Russian literary magazine published monthly since 1927 and twice a month since 1957.

In 1989, the magazine's circulation exceeded 3 million copies.

"Change"

"Smena" is an illustrated popular humanitarian magazine with strong literary traditions. Founded in 1924, it was the most popular youth magazine in the Soviet Union.

Since its founding, the magazine has published premiere publications of books that later became bestsellers. In the twenties, it was in Smena that the first stories by Mikhail Sholokhov and Alexander Green, and poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky appeared. In the thirties, Konstantin Paustovsky, Lev Kassil, and Valentin Kataev published their first works on the pages of Smena. An excerpt from Alexei Tolstoy’s new novel “Peter I” and his fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio” were published.

In the post-war years, the pages of Smena published an excerpt from the novel “The Young Guard” by Alexander Fadeev and the story “Test of Loyalty” by Stanislav Lem, not yet known in the USSR. In 1975, the Weiner brothers’ novel “The Era of Mercy” appeared on the pages of Smena.

In 1984, the publication's circulation was 1,900 thousand copies. In 1991, the magazine was renamed Ekran.

"Sport games"

“Sports Games” is a Soviet and Russian sports and methodological magazine published in 1955-1994. Published in Moscow by the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. The magazine was devoted to various problems of the theory and practice of sports games.

The magazine talked about team sports (football, hockey, basketball, tennis, etc.). Published the results of sports competitions. As of 1975, the magazine's circulation was 170 thousand copies.

"Student Meridian"

“Student Meridian” is a journalistic, popular science, literary and artistic youth magazine, formed in 1924 under the name “Red Youth” (1924-1925). Before the Great Patriotic War, the name changed twice (“Red Students”, 1925-1935; “Soviet Students”, 1936-1967).

In 1925, the magazine was headed by N.K. Krupskaya. As a teacher, she became closely involved in student issues and published a significant number of pedagogical articles here. Around these years, Alexander Rodchenko worked at the magazine, who attracted Vladimir Mayakovsky to collaborate.

In July-August 1991, there was a special issue of the magazine, 100 pages long, entirely dedicated to The Beatles.

"Technology for youth"

“Technology for Youth” is a monthly popular science and literary and artistic magazine. Published since July 1933.

“Technology for Youth” is one of the few Soviet popular science magazines published during the Great Patriotic War. It published the best works of Soviet and foreign science fiction.

The editors of the magazine organized over 20 all-Russian and international shows and competitions of amateur cars. Using the materials of the magazine and with the participation of its authors, the program “You Can Do It” was broadcast on television.

"Ural Pathfinder"

“Ural Pathfinder” is a popular monthly literary, journalistic, educational magazine about tourism and local history published in Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk). The first issue of the magazine was published in April 1935, then, after nine issues, publication was discontinued. The magazine experienced a rebirth in 1958.

The magazine published Vladislav Krapivin, Viktor Astafiev, Sergei Drugal, Sergei Lukyanenko, German Drobiz and many others.

In 1981, the editors of the Ural Pathfinder magazine established the Aelita fiction festival, which awarded the Aelita literary prize, which is the first major literary prize in the Ural region and the first literary prize in the field of fiction in the country.

"Youth"

"Youth" is a literary and artistic illustrated magazine for young people. It was founded in Moscow in 1955 on the initiative of Valentin Kataev, who became the first editor-in-chief and was removed from this position in 1961 for publishing the story “Star Ticket” by Vasily Aksenov.

Yunost was distinguished from other literary magazines by its great interest in social life and the world around it. It had permanent sections “Science and Technology”, “Sports”, “Facts and Searches”. The magazine was one of the first to cover the phenomenon of bard song, and in the eighties - “Mitkov”.

One of the most characteristic features of “Youth” was the humorous section, which in 1956-1972 was called “Vacuum Cleaner”, later - “Green Briefcase”. The editors of the section at different times were Mark Rozovsky, Arkady Arkanov and Grigory Gorin, Viktor Slavkin and Mikhail Zadornov.

These were the most interesting magazines of the Soviet Union. Which ones did you have? Which ones did you enjoy reading the most?

In our childhood and youth there was no Internet. But the country did not experience information hunger. We found all the most important and interesting things in books, TV shows and periodicals.
Each Soviet family subscribed to several titles of newspapers and magazines. Citizens of the USSR eagerly awaited the release of the new issue of their favorite periodical.

The catalog of Soviet periodicals was a rather weighty tome, where, in addition to about 8 thousand newspapers, subscription indexes were indicated for several hundred magazines - both all-Union and republican. At the end of each year, a very important process began in Soviet families - issuing an annual subscription to Soviet periodicals.
Parents subscribed to their newspapers and magazines, and for the children they always subscribed to children's periodicals; children were especially happy about the latest issues of children's magazines in their mailboxes. The color magazine “Murzilka”, smelling of fresh printing ink, hid a whole world under its cover! Reading the magazine began right there, at the mailbox.
Any state in the world, no matter what social system it adheres to, has always been and is engaged in educating the younger generation in the spirit of its chosen state structure. The Soviet Union did not become an exception to the rule in this sense, and from the first years of its formation it began to pay great attention to the communist and revolutionary education of young citizens. Interesting stories, poems and essays written by talented writers quickly found a warm response in children's hearts.
The very first Soviet children's magazine “Northern Lights” began to be published in 1919 in Leningrad and Moscow. Its creator was the writer Maxim Gorky. He especially emphasized the need for the child to be comprehensively educated, to have an unshakable faith in people, faith in his own strengths and abilities. This magazine presented its reader as a child from the people who grows up not in greenhouse conditions, but in the real world of struggle for communist ideals.
The magazine “Northern Lights” was published for almost a year and on its pages it published stories about the lives of children before and after the revolution, scientific knowledge about the world and nature was presented in the form of fairy tales, and educational aids, geographical maps, and games were printed in the appendix to the magazine.
Very often, the authors of essays, poems, stories were the children themselves - young correspondents, and young readers learned first-hand about the exploits of their peers who saved someone from fire or from water. Reports on the deeds of young Timurites, about the children who helped adults in harvesting, and about much more could be read in Soviet magazines for children.
A special place was occupied by the pioneers - the vanguard of the younger generation, and the affairs of the pioneer organization named after. Lenin was covered in detail in the “party” magazine “Pioneer”. This magazine can also be called a “long-liver”; it has been published since 1924 to this day, although now its content has completely changed.
During the Great Patriotic War, Soviet magazines for children were also published, such magazines as “Murzilka”, “Pioneer”, “Friendly Guys” did not leave their little readers in those terrible hungry years, even in besieged Leningrad, despite the terrible conditions, children's magazines were published magazine "Koster".
The most interesting educational magazines - “Young Naturalist”, “Young Technician”, “Model Designer” - became most popular in the calm, peaceful 60-80s of the last century. How many children, having first beaten off their fingers with a hammer, themselves built birdhouses and titmouses, feeders and drinking bowls, and prepared hay for the winter for the forest inhabitants - deer, elk, hares. Many people have discovered their talent as inventors or “techies.”
How many girls learned to sew clothes for dolls, make soft toys, and embroider. And everyone on Pioneer hikes benefited from the ability to pitch tents, quickly light fires, cook food over a fire, and navigate the cardinal directions.
Soviet children's magazines, despite being politicized, on their pages taught children friendship and mutual assistance, respect for elders, passion for learning, the need to protect the weak and small, and simply to love their Motherland, take care of its nature, work honestly and conscientiously for the good of everyone! Tell me, what's wrong with this?
Many branches of Soviet science and economy had their own magazine: “Radio” - a reference book for those who like to solder a transistor receiver with their own hands, “Natural Science and Marxism”, “Horse Breeding and Equestrian Sports”, “Issues of Balneology, Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy”, “Foreign Military review”, “Paramedic and midwife”, “Rabbit breeding and fur farming”.
Many translators literally fed at VINITI - the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, which published abstract journals on various scientific issues, such as microbiology or geophysics.
Popular science publications such as “Chemistry and Life”, “Science and Life”, “Technology for Youth” or “Knowledge is Power” were popular among the people. They were distinguished by an informal approach to science, the ability to arouse audience interest in the subject of the description - it was precisely such magazines that created a positive and original image of a scientist in the USSR. It should be noted that almost all government agencies, public, professional, youth organizations, the army and navy, firefighters and police published their magazines.
Millions of Soviet women subscribed to “The Worker” or “The Peasant Woman,” and then cut out from these magazines tips on housekeeping and knitting, recipes that they used repeatedly.
A reading Soviet family spent up to 150 rubles on an annual subscription, and no expense was spared on the press.
Man is an inquisitive creature, and the source of knowledge and news at that time was television with two channels, radio, newspapers, neighbors and co-workers. More interesting and entertaining events were described in magazines. There were cases when the team contributed an annual subscription to a “worthy and beloved” employee to an absolutely wonderful magazine, for example, “Pig Breeding”, “Sovetik Gameland” in Yiddish, or “Communist of Tajikistan” in Tajik. Such an intelligent manifestation of a bad attitude towards a dishonest person.
A special topic is literary magazines: “New World”, “October”, “Znamya”, “Friendship of Peoples”, “Literary Study”, “Youth”, “Aurora”. They were hunted for, they were given to read for one night, they tried to subscribe to them by hook or by crook - it was limited and distributed to research institutes or district party committees. And the issue of The Seeker, which published mainly science fiction, was of unquestionable value.
If your story about the everyday life of a Soviet worker was published in Yunost, consider that fame has come, and you have been included in the pantheon, especially since the chief editors of these magazines in Soviet times were real literary celestials: Tvardovsky, Polevoy, Kataev, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Baruzdin, Surkov. Many magazines were published in the Land of the Soviets, and some are still remembered with warmth and joy.
Smart, competent, informative articles in the magazines “Health” and “Science and Life”, trusting and humane articles in “Worker” and “Peasant Woman”, magazines “Soviet Screen” and “Fashion Magazine”, which open the door to the world of cinema and catwalks, beautiful people and clothes! For many Soviet people, magazines in their mailboxes were a common occurrence, but no one carried out ratings; multimillion-dollar circulations spoke for themselves. Some magazines, despite the almost complete lack of advertising of their activities, are published in modern Russia.

Funny pictures

"Funny Pictures" is a children's humor magazine designed for children from 4 to 10 years old. Published monthly since September 1956. Along with Murzilka, it was the most popular children's magazine in the USSR in the 1960-80s. In the early 1980s, its circulation reached 9.5 million copies.
The magazine includes poems and stories, board games, comics, puzzles, jokes, and riddles. He organizes leisure time for the whole family, since parents read to young children, and older children need the approval of adults, whether the assignment from the magazine was completed well, or whether the riddle was guessed correctly.
The name of the magazine was chosen based on the fact that funny and cheerful pictures, accompanied by short, witty captions, are always popular with young children. Historically, “Funny Pictures” came out of “Krokodil” - the founding father and first editor of the magazine was “Krokodilsky” cartoonist Ivan Semenov. He also drew the main character – Pencil, who became the symbol of the magazine.
Pencil is an artist, his whole appearance speaks of this: a loose blouse, a beret, a red bow on his neck and a red stylus instead of a nose. He is the inspirer of a group of cheerful people, he and his friends, Samodelkin, Buratino, Chipollino, Dunno, are the constant heroes of “Funny Pictures”. The first Soviet comic book is about them. The magazine's regular columns were also associated with them.
At the "Pencil School" children were taught to draw, at the "Samodelkin School" - to make toys with their own hands, at the "Merry ABC" they were introduced to letters. In 1977, one era ends in the magazine “Funny Pictures” and a new one begins.
Chukovsky, Barto, Mikhalkov, Suteev are being replaced by the “young and arrogant”: editor-in-chief Ruben Varshamov, and with him nonconformist artists Viktor Pivovarov, Ilya Kabakov, Eduard Grokhovsky, Alexander Mitta and “new children”: Eduard Uspensky, Andrei Usachev, Evgeny Milutka.
In 1979, artist Viktor Pivovarov created a new logo for the favorite children's magazine “Funny Pictures”. From now on, the magazine has its own logo: human letters that make up the name of the magazine.
“Funny Pictures” was the only publication in the USSR that was never censored. In particular, the mandatory press notices about the change of leaders of the Soviet state were not published on the pages of the magazine. When L. I. Brezhnev died and a directive was issued to publish his portrait in a mourning frame on the cover of all publications, the editors of “Funny Pictures” managed to prove that against the backdrop of the magazine’s name this would look extremely inappropriate.

Murzilka

"Murzilka" is a popular monthly children's literary and art magazine. Until 1991, it was the press organ of the Komsomol Central Committee and the Central Council of the All-Union Pioneer Organization.
Murzilka is a small forest man who existed in popular books for children of the late 19th century. It was invented by the Canadian writer and artist Palmer Cox, who described the dwarf brownie people, related to brownies. At first it was a little man in a tailcoat, with a cane and a monocle. Then Murzilka became an ordinary little dog, helping everyone who was in trouble.
On May 16, 1924, the first issue of the Murzilka magazine was published in the USSR. Murzilka was a small white dog and appeared together with his owner, the boy Petya. In 1937, the artist Aminadav Kanevsky created the image of the correspondent puppy Murzilka, which became famous in the USSR - a yellow fluffy character in a red beret, with a scarf and a camera over his shoulder. Subsequently, the character evolved into a boy correspondent, whose adventures were also the subject of several cartoons.

Pioneer

“Pioneer” is a monthly literary, artistic and socio-political magazine of the Komsomol Central Committee and the Central Council of the All-Union Pioneer Organization for pioneers and schoolchildren. The first issue was published on March 15, 1924 and was dedicated to V.I. Lenin. It is considered a bibliographic rarity, since the author of the essay on Lenin was Leon Trotsky, and the published copies were subsequently destroyed.
N.K. Krupskaya, M.I. Kalinin, Em. spoke on the pages of Pioneer. M. Yaroslavsky, writers S. Ya. Marshak, A. P. Gaidar, L. A. Kassil, B. S. Zhitkov, K. G. Paustovsky, R. I. Fraerman, V. A. Kaverin, A. L Barto, Vitaly Bianki, S. V. Mikhalkov, Yuri Sotnik, V. P. Krapivin, Yu. Kozlov, E. Uspensky and others.
In 1938, the magazine published the fairy tale “Old Man Hottabych” by L. I. Lagin. "Pioneer" had permanent sections on school and pioneer life, journalism, science and technology, art, sports, and children's artistic creativity.

Bonfire

“Koster” is a monthly literary and artistic magazine for schoolchildren. It was founded by the publishing house "Children's Literature" in 1936. Published from July 1936 to 1946, then after a ten-year break, publication was resumed in July 1956.
At various times, “Koster” was the organ of the Central Committee of the Komsomol and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Marshak, Chukovsky, Schwartz, Paustovsky, Zoshchenko and many others were published in it. Sergei Dovlatov worked for this magazine. And it was here that the first publication of Joseph Brodsky in the Soviet press took place. Also, some works of famous foreign children's writers - Gianni Rodari and Astrid Lindgren - were published here for the first time.

Young technician

"Young Technician" is a monthly children's and youth magazine about science and technology. Founded in Moscow in 1956 as an illustrated scientific and technical magazine of the Komsomol Central Committee and the Central Council of the All-Union Pioneer Organization for pioneers and schoolchildren.
In a popular form, it conveys to the reader (primarily schoolchildren) the achievements of domestic and foreign science, technology, and production. Encourages scientific and technical creativity, promotes professional orientation of schoolchildren.
Regularly publishes works by famous science fiction writers - Kir Bulychev, Robert Silverberg, Ilya Varshavsky, Arthur Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Leonid Kudryavtsev and others.
There was also a supplement to the magazine “Young Technician” - for skilled hands, crafts,
layouts, etc.

Supplement to the magazine "Young Technician"

Supplement to the magazine "Young Technician". For middle and high school age.
The publication was founded in 1956. Initially published by the Central Station of Young Technicians named after N.M. Shvernik entitled “For Skillful Hands”, as a series of brochures - manuals to help polytechnic training and technical creativity of pioneers and schoolchildren. Since 1957, it began to be published as a supplement to the magazine “Young Technician” - “UT for Skillful Hands” and since 1991 it has been called “Lefty”.

Young naturalist

“Young Naturalist” is a monthly popular science magazine for schoolchildren about nature, natural history, biology and ecology. Founded in July 1928. From 1941 to 1956 it was not published. In some years, the magazine's circulation reached almost 4 million copies.
The magazine introduces children to all the diversity of life in the animal and plant world, fosters a love for nature, teaches them to take care of its riches, helps schoolchildren develop a materialistic understanding of natural phenomena, and talks about the latest discoveries of biological science in a popular form.

Peer

"Rovesnik" is a youth magazine published since July 1962. The main audience is young people from 14 to 28 years old. It became a real breakthrough for publishing in the Soviet Union. It was the first magazine aimed exclusively at young people. In addition, it was here that previously inaccessible topics were touched upon for the first time: rock music, the life of Western youth, and others. The magazine also published reviews of recent films and music albums.

Youth

"Youth" is a literary and artistic illustrated magazine for young people. Published in Moscow since 1955. It was founded on the initiative of Valentin Kataev. Until 1991, the magazine was the organ of the Union of Writers of the USSR; later it became an independent publication.
“Youth” differed from other literary magazines in its great interest in public life and the world around us. There were permanent sections “Science and Technology”, “Sports”, “Facts and Searches”. The magazine was one of the first to highlight the phenomenon of bard song (article by A. Gerber “On Bards and Minstrels”), and in the eighties - “Mitkov”. One list of editors and authors of the magazine “Yunost” looks like a chronicle of Soviet literature of the 50s-90s: Akhmadulina, Voznesensky, Yevtushenko, Rozhdestvensky, Okudzhava, Iskander, Rubtsov, Gladilin, Gorin, Arkanov, Kir Bulychev, Rimma Kazakova, Olzhas Suleimenov, Boris Vasiliev, Aksenov, Voinovich, Kovaldzhi - you open the archived issue of Yunost, and they are all here, still young and smiling from the photographs. “Youth” always remained youth, and tried to keep up with the times.

Change

"Smena" is an illustrated popular humanitarian magazine with strong literary traditions. Founded in 1924, it was the most popular youth magazine in the Soviet Union. By the end of the 1980s, the circulation of Smena reached more than three million copies. "Smena" was founded by the decision of the Central Committee of the RKSM as a "two-week magazine of working youth."
The covers of the first issues were designed by the famous Soviet artist, founder of constructivism, Alexander Rodchenko. His bright, fashionable covers immediately attracted a large readership. The poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, with an argument that did not tolerate objections, called on the youth audience on the pages of the first issues of the Smena magazine: “Be ready to replace the old people, read the Smena magazine.”
Since its founding, the magazine has published premiere publications of books that later became bestsellers. It was in Smena that the first stories of Mikhail Sholokhov and Alexander Green, poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky appeared, and Konstantin Paustovsky, Lev Kassil, and Valentin Kataev published their first works. An excerpt from Alexei Tolstoy’s new novel “Peter I” and his fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio” were published. In 1975, the Weiner brothers’ novel “The Era of Mercy” appeared on the pages of Smena. Over the years, I. Babel, M. Zoshchenko, A. Gorky, A. Platonov collaborated with the Smena magazine. A. Fadeev, V. Astafiev, V. Bykov, Yu. Nagibin, Yu. Semenov, and the Strugatsky brothers were published on the pages of the Smena magazine.

Radio

"Radio" is a massive monthly scientific and technical magazine dedicated to amateur radio, home electronics, audio/video, computers and telecommunications. The first issue, entitled “Amateur Radio,” was published on August 15, 1924 and was published every two weeks. In mid-1930 it was renamed Radiofront. At the end of 1930, the editorial offices of the magazines Radiofront and Radio Amateur merged. Subsequently, the magazine was published under the name “Radiofront” until July 1941. The first post-war issue of the magazine was published in 1946 under the name “Radio”.
The magazine has repeatedly published training series for beginners. The first series of articles, “Step by Step,” started in May 1959, began with the basics of radio transmission and reception, and ended with the construction of a network tube superheterodyne broadcast receiver for DV and SV.
In 1970, the magazine published a description of the legendary amateur radio transceiver Yuri Kudryavtsev (UW3DI) using vacuum tubes. Shortwave operators replicated this design in thousands of copies.
In 1983, the magazine published a description and diagram of the first Soviet amateur radio computer, Micro-80. In 1986, the magazine published diagrams, descriptions and program codes for the Radio 86RK amateur radio computer, which was much easier to assemble and configure than the Micro-80 and was software compatible with it. In 1990, the magazine published a series of articles about the Orion-128 personal amateur radio computer, which was compatible with the RK-86, but had greater capabilities.

Technology-youth

“Technology for Youth” is a monthly popular science and literary and artistic magazine. Published since July 1933. In the first years of its existence, “Technology for Youth” was a purely technical publication, which contained a fair amount of ideological material.
To attract subscribers to the Komsomol Central Committee, a large-scale campaign was carried out, as a result of which already in 1935 some issues were published with a circulation of more than 150 thousand copies. At the same time, science fiction began to be published in the magazine, the best works of Soviet and foreign science fiction were published.
The magazine became one of the few popular science publications published in the USSR during the war. The only break was made in the period from October 1941 to March 1942. The editors of the magazine organized over 20 all-Russian and international competitions of amateur cars. Using the materials of the magazine and with the participation of its authors, the program “You Can Do It” was broadcast on television. Under the leadership of the magazine, numerous circles and sections, clubs for young scuba divers and homemade car designers were created.

Modeler-constructor

“Modelist-constructor” (until 1966, “Young modeller-constructor”) is a monthly popular scientific and technical magazine. The first issue of the magazine entitled “Young Model Designer” was published in August 1962 under the guidance of famous aircraft designers A. Tupolev, S. Ilyushin, as well as cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Until 1965, the magazine (more precisely, the almanac) was published irregularly, with a total of 13 issues published. Since 1966, it became a monthly subscription publication and changed its name to “Modelist-Constructor”.
The magazine contributed to the development and dissemination of technical creativity among the population of the country, as well as the popularization of such sports and modeling as: karting, buggies, track modeling, amateur automobile construction, amateur design of gliders and ultra-light aircraft, velomobiles and single-engine equipment, small-scale mechanization tools for gardens and vegetable gardens

Knowledge is power

“Knowledge is power” is a popular science and scientific-art magazine. Publishes materials about achievements in various fields of science - physics, astronomy, cosmology, biology, history, economics, philosophy, psychology, sociology. The magazine's motto is Francis Bacon's statement: “Knowledge itself is power.”
The first issue of the publication was published in January 1926. Its title page read “Monthly Popular Science and Adventure Magazine for Teens.” The magazine did not retain its original, general educational direction for long. The era of “shock industrialization” began in the country, and in 1928 the magazine changed its profile. Through the efforts of its editors, a new magazine was then created - “Young Naturalist”, and “Knowledge is Power” became the organ of young technicians.

Science and life

“Science and Life” is a monthly popular science illustrated magazine of a wide profile. It was founded in 1890. The magazine's circulation in the 1970s-1980s reached 3 million copies and was one of the highest in the USSR.
Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Science and Life” Bolshevik N.L. After the revolution, Meshcheryakov reorganized the once popular publication in Russia, choosing the “Marxist-Leninist” path in covering all materials. However, as in the pre-revolutionary publication, the updated journal “Science and Life” set its main task for the reader to popularize knowledge and communicate all the outstanding scientific and practical news in the most popular form possible.
Soon the publication gains great popularity both in the scientific community and among ordinary readers. Since 1938, the journal “Science and Life” has become the printed organ of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The popularity of the magazine “Science and Life” began to grow rapidly in the 60s; there was not enough paper to provide the huge circulation that the Soviet reader needed. By the mid-60s, the circulation increased more than 20 times.

Around the world

“Around the World” is the oldest Russian popular science and regional studies magazine, published since December 1860. During its existence, it changed several publishers. From January 1918 to January 1927 and from July 1941 to December 1945 the magazine was not published. The topics of the articles are geography, travel, ethnography, biology, astronomy, medicine, culture, history, biographies, cooking.
Since 1961, the literary supplement “Seeker” has been published, which publishes adventure and fantasy works. Among the published authors are Ray Bradbury, Francis Karsak, Robert Sheckley, Isaac Asimov, Stanislav Lem, Arthur Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Olga Larionova, Sinclair Lewis, Lazar Lagin, Kir Bulychev and other Soviet and foreign authors.

“Soviet Photo” is a monthly illustrated magazine of the Union of Journalists of the USSR. It was founded in 1926 by the Soviet journalist M. Koltsov. The publication of the magazine began in Moscow under the auspices of the joint-stock publishing house Ogonyok, which he organized, which was transformed in 1931 into the Magazine and Newspaper Association. The break in publication was 1942-1956.

Horizon

"Krugozor" is a literary, musical and socio-political illustrated magazine with applications in the form of flexible gramophone records. Published since 1964. Published by the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers for Television and Radio Broadcasting, produced by the Pravda Publishing House and the All-Union Recording Studio.
At the origins of the magazine were Yuri Vizbor, who worked in it for 7 years since its founding, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, and poet Evgeniy Khramov. The topics of the magazine were documentary, chronicle and artistic sound recordings, reproducing speeches of government officials, public figures, masters of art, as well as the best examples of classical and modern art, folk art, new literature, music, theater, and pop music. The magazine constantly published songs performed by Soviet pop stars: I. Kobzon, V. Obodzinsky, S. Rotaru, A. Pugacheva and many others, popular VIA (“Pesnyary”, “Gems”, “Flame”, etc.) , famous foreign performers, the demand for whose recordings in the Soviet Union significantly exceeded the supply.
The magazine consisted of 16 pages, 4 cover pages (which also contained text) and 6 flexible double-sided records with a rotation speed of 33⅓ revolutions per minute, each no more than seven minutes of sound. Floppy disks were initially printed on a special machine purchased in France. Since 1991, part of the circulation was released with an audio cassette, and since 1992 it was decided to abandon flexible records. The circulation in 1973 was 450 thousand copies, in 1983 - 500 thousand, and in the spring of 1991 - only 60 thousand copies. In 1992, the magazine was closed due to financial difficulties.

Kolobok

"Kolobok" is a literary and musical children's illustrated magazine, with supplements in the form of flexible gramophone records. Founded in 1968. Published as a supplement to the Krugozor magazine by the Pravda publishing house and the All-Union Recording Studio since 1968.
According to the authors’ plan, the sound magazine “Kolobok” introduced children of preschool and primary school age to the history, culture, nature of the USSR, musical works, children’s fiction, and folklore.
The magazine consisted of 20 pages, including covers (which also contained text) and 2 flexible double-sided records with a rotation speed of 33⅓ revolutions per minute, each no more than seven minutes of sound. On the pages of the magazine, printed text and illustrations are often organically linked with literary and musical tales, interludes, etc., recorded on flexible gramophone records. The pages of the magazine, to which audio tracks were attached, as in the “big brother” - the Krugozor magazine - were marked with a small icon: an audio disc indicating the number of a flexible gramophone record from the magazine, and the slogan was added: “See the picture, listen to the record.”

Roman - newspaper

"Roman-Gazeta" is a literary magazine published monthly since 1927 and twice a month since 1957. The idea of organizing a literary magazine for proletarian writers came to V.I. Lenin’s mind. M. Gorky also took part in the birth of this publication. “Roman-newspaper” was published by the publishing house “Moskovsky Rabochiy”, and from 1931 - in Goslitizdat (publishing house “Khudozhestvennaya Literatura”).
By July 1987 (on the 60th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of the magazine), 1066 issues of Roman-Gazeta had been published with a total circulation of over 1 billion 300 million copies. During this period, 528 authors spoke in Roman-Gazeta, of which 434 were Soviet writers and 94 foreign. 440 novels, 380 stories and 12 poetic works were published. The design of the magazine changed several times, there were at least 5 different types of covers. In 1989, the magazine's circulation exceeded 3 million copies.

Worker

“Rabotnitsa” is a socio-political, literary and artistic magazine for women. It began publishing back in 1914 on the initiative of V. Lenin to “protect the interests of the women’s labor movement” and promote the views of the labor movement; the magazine had a bright revolutionary “color” and was persecuted by tsarist censorship. In 1914, 7 issues were published, 3 of which were confiscated by the police; On June 26, publication was discontinued due to police persecution. Resumed in May 1917. Since 1943 it has become a monthly magazine.
The first issue of 1914 was published in a circulation of 12 thousand copies, in 1974 the circulation was 12 million, in 1990 it reached 23 million copies, but in 1991 alone it fell almost by half.
A. Ulyanova-Elizarova, N. Krupskaya, I. Armand, A. Artyukhina, V. Velichkina, M. Kollontai, L. Menzhinskaya and others participated in the creation of the magazine and at different times were members of the editorial board. “Rabotnitsa” primarily covered women's socialist movement.

Peasant woman

“Peasant Woman” is a socio-political, literary and artistic magazine for women. The first issue of “Peasant Woman” was published in June 1922 with a circulation of five thousand copies; in 1973, the circulation reached 6.3 million copies.
The first issue published an appeal from the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Mikhail Kalinin, to female readers, which explained the role of the publication in introducing working women to the social and cultural life of the country. Krupskaya, M. Ulyanova, Lunacharsky and many others spoke on the pages of the magazine. Demyan Bedny, Maxim Gorky, Serafimovich, Tvardovsky and other famous writers wrote for him.
They also published articles on “women’s topics”; the magazines educated women who were careless about their appearance. The publication had a network of women - rural correspondents. Each issue was accompanied by a free manual - lessons on cutting and sewing, knitting, fashion, etc. In 2010, the layout of the magazine and its concept underwent significant changes. Natalya Shcherbanenko became the new editor-in-chief of the magazine, and the main topic was a country house and everything that surrounds it.

Health

“Health” magazine is a monthly magazine about human health and ways to preserve it. Published since January 1955. Initially it was an organ promoting a healthy lifestyle, but later became a full-fledged popular science magazine. The magazine was popular in the USSR, publishing both articles “for the people” and serious materials, as well as materials for children. Constantly in creative search, the magazine continued to be published after the collapse of the USSR. Since 1995, the magazine has been published in Finland.

Ogonyok

"Ogonyok" is a socio-political, literary and artistic illustrated weekly magazine. It was founded in 1899 in St. Petersburg. In 1918, publication of the magazine ceased and was resumed through the efforts of Mikhail Koltsov in 1923. Until 1940, 36 issues were published per year; since 1940, the magazine turned into a weekly. In 1974, circulation was 2 million.
Photo reports are the favorite format of Ogonyok magazine. They always occupied a large part on the pages of the publication. The lives of many talented publicists and writers are connected with the history of Ogonyok magazine. Each period of the magazine's leadership is marked by new interesting creative achievements.
In the 50s, the poet Alexei Surkov became the editor-in-chief of the Ogonyok magazine. It was he who suggested placing on the cover a bright image of a Soviet citizen - a leader in production, an astronaut, an athlete, an artist. Since the 50s, the content of the Soviet magazine Ogonyok has become more and more interesting, detective stories with continuations, insert reproductions with masterpieces of world painting, and many interesting columns appear. From the 60s to the early 90s. The popularity of the Ogonyok magazine among readers increased. The publication was not always available for free subscription, sometimes only through an enterprise. In those years, the magazine took an active socio-political position.

Behind the wheel

"Behind the Wheel" is a popular magazine about cars and the automotive industry. Published since 1928. Until 1989, it was the only automobile periodical in the USSR, designed for a wide range of readers.
The editorial board of the magazine “Behind the Wheel” was formed by the famous Soviet publicist Mikhail Koltsov. Such celebrities as the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and artists Alexander Zakharov and Boris Efimov collaborated with the publication at different times.
Many generations of our car enthusiasts were brought up on the automobile magazine “Behind the Wheel.” All those who were interested in automotive history and technology read this magazine from cover to cover. It was a problem to write it out and purchase it at the kiosk. Even when the circulation of “Behind the Wheel” in the USSR was more than 4 million, the magazine was not enough for everyone.
Over the years of its existence, the magazine “Behind the Wheel” has become a real reference book on the automotive world. The editors of the magazine “Behind the Wheel” selected materials and photo publications that would timely cover all the new products of the domestic automobile industry, as well as introduce them to the global achievements of the automotive industry. In addition, if you set out to trace the entire history of the development and formation of domestic cars, you will not find a better and most detailed publication than “Behind the Wheel”.
He covered the Soviet magazine “Behind the Wheel” and the difficult fate of domestic roads, talked about international exhibitions, car rallies, and competitions. Such a huge range of interesting materials in the magazine became a moment of unique authorial prestige. Many journalists in the USSR dreamed of working in the editorial office of the magazine “Behind the Wheel”.

Crocodile

"Crocodile" is a popular satirical magazine. Founded in 1922 as a supplement to Rabochaya Gazeta and was published simultaneously with a large number of other satirical magazines (for example, Splinter, Spotlight, etc.).
The symbol of the publication is a drawing: a red crocodile with a pitchfork. The magazine was published three times a month. The circulation reached 6.5 million copies. In the late 20s, an airplane was built using funds collected from the magazine's subscribers and its employees. After the closure of Rabochaya Gazeta in 1930, the publisher of Krokodil became the Pravda publishing house with its own printing plant, which was not directly involved in organizing political campaigns.
In choosing the strategy for his satirical activities, “Crocodile” could act relatively independently. Thus, the magazine opposed RAPP and its leader L.L. Averbakh, in the fall of 1933 it pointedly did not publish articles on the opening of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, tried to resist the fight against “pests”, etc. Writers M worked in the magazine on a permanent basis M. Zoshchenko, I. A. Ilf, E. P. Petrov, V. P. Kataev, M. D. Volpin, A. S. Bukhov, V. E. Ardov, Emil Krotky, M. A. Glushkov, artists M. M. Cheremnykh, Kukryniksy, Boris Efimov, K. P. Rotov. E. G. Bagritsky, Yu. K. Olesha, S. I. Kirsanov and others published periodically.
Since 1934, Krokodil has been the most important official mouthpiece of politics at all levels of social and political life. The magazine published both satirical materials and illustrations of significant achievements of the USSR. The satire of "Crocodile" was not limited to minor everyday topics - exposure of bureaucrats, drunkards, bribe-takers, hacks, dudes, as well as criticism of incompetent middle and lower-level managers, it also reflected key issues and central events of domestic and foreign policy, extending from denunciations of Leon Trotsky, spies and “enemies of the people” to the flagellation of West German revanchism, American imperialism and its satellites, colonialism, NATO, etc.
Due to the limitations of the printing press, Krokodil's printing was unique until the 1980s. One side was printed in four colors (that is, it was full color), the second - in two (black and color).

“Soviet Screen” is an illustrated magazine published at various intervals from 1925 to 1998 (with a break in 1930-1957). In January-March 1925, the magazine was published under the name “Kinogazeta Screen”, in 1929-1930 - “Cinema and Life”, in 1991-1997 - “Screen”. Until 1992, the magazine was the organ of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR and Goskino of the USSR.
The magazine published articles about domestic and foreign novelties on the silver screen, articles about the history of cinema, criticism, and creative portraits of actors and filmmakers. In 1984, the publication's circulation was 1,900 thousand copies. The publication of the magazine dates back to the time when cinema became the most popular art form in the early 20th century.
V. I. Lenin himself noted that the propaganda effectiveness of cinema lies in its mass character. At various times, the magazine “Soviet Screen” was published under the leadership of such eminent film critics, journalists, writers and screenwriters as Alexander Kurs, Dal, Orlov, Yuri Rybakov. For residents of the USSR, cinema, as an entertainment factor, came first. All the famous “celestials” of the screen were known by name, and there were plenty of film idols in the USSR.
Reading interviews with the favorites of the Soviet public on the pages of the magazine "Soviet Screen", young schoolchildren dreamed of acting glory, and ordinary citizens learned with interest about the most humane and humane Soviet cinema in the world, as well as about the latest films of the foreign screen. The publication was unable to recover from the economic crisis in the country in the late 90s; the magazine ceased to exist in 1998.

The most popular Soviet magazines

In the Soviet Union at one time there were about 200 periodicals of varying degrees of popularity. Let's remember those of them that left the most vivid mark in the hearts of readers of all ages...

"Funny pictures"

"Funny Pictures" is a children's humor magazine designed for children from 4 to 10 years old.

Published monthly in Moscow since September 1956. Along with Murzilka, it was the most popular children's magazine in the USSR in the 1960s-80s. In the early 1980s, its circulation reached 9.5 million copies.

"Around the world"

“Around the World” is the oldest Russian popular science and regional studies magazine, published since December 1860. During its existence, it changed several publishers.

From January 1918 to January 1927 and from July 1941 to December 1945 the magazine was not published. The topics of the articles are geography, travel, ethnography, biology, astronomy, medicine, culture, history, biographies, cooking.

"Behind the wheel"

By the end of the 1980s, the magazine's circulation reached 4.5 million copies. It is known, for example, that the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky worked in this magazine.

"Health"

“Health” is a monthly Soviet and Russian magazine about human health and ways to preserve it.

Began publishing in January 1955. Initially it was an organ promoting a healthy lifestyle, but later became a full-fledged popular science magazine.

"Knowledge is power"

“Knowledge is Power” is a popular science and art magazine founded in 1926.

It published materials about achievements in various fields of science - physics, astronomy, cosmology, biology, history, economics, philosophy, psychology, sociology.

The magazine's motto is Francis Bacon's statement: “Knowledge itself is power.”

"Foreign literature"

“Foreign Literature” (“IL”) is a literary and artistic magazine specializing in the publication of translated literature. Founded in July 1955 as the governing body of the USSR Writers' Union.

For Soviet readers, the magazine was the only opportunity to get acquainted with the work of many major Western writers, whose books were not published in the USSR for censorship reasons.

"Seeker"

“Seeker” is a monthly almanac that publishes adventure, fantasy and detective works, popular science essays, as well as fiction and educational literature for children from 2 to 14 years old.

It was founded in 1961, in the year of the centenary of the magazine “Around the World”, as a literary supplement to the latter.

"Bonfire"

At various times, “Koster” was the organ of the Komsomol Central Committee; Central Committee of the Komsomol and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Marshak, Chukovsky, Schwartz, Paustovsky, Zoshchenko and many others were published in it.

"Peasant Woman"

Krupskaya and Lunacharsky spoke on the pages of the magazine. Demyan Bedny, Maxim Gorky, Serafimovich, Tvardovsky and other famous writers wrote for him.

"Crocodile"

Writers Zoshchenko, Ilf and Petrov, Kataev, artists Kukryniksy and Boris Efimov worked in the magazine on a permanent basis. Bagritsky and Olesha published periodically.

By decision of the Organizing Bureau and Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, “Krokodil” was transferred to “Pravda”, and from that time began to participate in all Soviet political campaigns.

Since 1934, Krokodil has been the most important official mouthpiece of politics at all levels of social and political life.

"Horizon"

“Krugozor” is a monthly literary, musical, socio-political and illustrated magazine, with supplements in the form of flexible gramophone records. Published from 1964 to 1992.

At the origins of the magazine were Yuri Vizbor, who worked in it for 7 years since its founding, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, and poet Evgeniy Khramov.

"Model designer"

“Modelist-constructor” (until 1966 - “Young modeller-constructor”) is a monthly popular scientific and technical magazine.

Until 1965, the magazine was published irregularly; a total of 13 issues were published. Since 1966, it became a monthly subscription publication and changed its name to “Modelist-Constructor”.

"Murzilka"

Writers such as Samuil Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov, Boris Zakhoder, Agnia Barto and Nikolai Nosov began their creative careers in the magazine.
In 1977-1983, the magazine published a detective-mystery story about Yabeda-Koryabeda and her agents, and in 1979 - science fiction dreams “Travel there and back” (author and artist - A. Semyonov).

In 2011, the magazine was included in the Guinness Book of Records. It has been recognized as the longest running children's publication.

"Science and life"

“Science and Life” is a monthly popular science illustrated magazine with a wide profile. It was founded in 1890.

The publication was resumed in October 1934. The magazine's circulation in the 1970s-1980s reached 3 million copies and was one of the highest in the USSR.

"Ogonyok"

“Ogonyok” is a socio-political, literary and artistic illustrated weekly magazine. It was founded and published in 1899-1918 in St. Petersburg (Petrograd), and in 1923 it began publishing in Moscow.

From 1925 to 1991, artistic and journalistic brochures were published in the “Ogonyok” Library series.

"Sail"

"Pioneer"

"Working Girl"

“Rabotnitsa” is a socio-political, literary and artistic magazine for women. It was established on the initiative of Vladimir Lenin to “protect the interests of the women’s labor movement” and promote the views of the labor movement.

The first issue was published on February 23 (March 8, new style) 1914. Until 1923 it was published in St. Petersburg, then in Moscow. Since 1943, “Rabotnitsa” began to be published monthly.

In 1985, the magazine began a three-year series of publications - the Home Academy for Home Economics and Handicrafts. The Academy program included 4 sections - Cutting and sewing, Knitting, Cooking, Personal care.

In post-Soviet times, the magazine appeared sections “Over 50, and everything is fine”, “Man and woman”, “Conversation for two”, “Men in our lives”, “Life history”.

"Coeval"

"Rovesnik" is a youth magazine published since July 1962. The main audience is young people from 14 to 28 years old. In the Soviet Union, existing under the auspices of the Central Committee of the Komsomol and the KMO of the USSR, “Coeval” wrote on topics that were then unique for Soviet youth - such as rock music, the life and culture of foreign youth.

In the 1980s and 1990s, “Rovesnika” published the “Rock Encyclopedia “Rovesnika”” - practically the first attempt at a rock encyclopedia in Russian. It was written by Sergei Kastalsky, and several encyclopedia articles were published in each issue, in alphabetical order.

"Roman-newspaper"

"Roman-Gazeta" is a Soviet and Russian literary magazine published monthly since 1927 and twice monthly since 1957.

During this period, 528 authors spoke in Roman-Gazeta, of which 434 were Soviet writers and 94 foreign. 440 novels, 380 stories and 12 poetic works were published.

In 1989, the magazine's circulation exceeded 3 million copies.

"Change"

Smena is an illustrated popular humanitarian magazine with strong literary traditions. Founded in 1924, it was the most popular youth magazine in the Soviet Union.

"Soviet screen"

Until 1992, the magazine was the organ of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR and Goskino of the USSR. The magazine published articles about domestic and foreign novelties on the silver screen, articles about the history of cinema, criticism, and creative portraits of actors and filmmakers.

In 1984, the publication's circulation was 1,900 thousand copies. In 1991, the magazine was renamed Ekran.

"Sport games"

The magazine talked about team sports (football, hockey, basketball, tennis, etc.). Published the results of sports competitions. As of 1975, the magazine's circulation was 170 thousand copies.

"Student Meridian"

“Student Meridian” is a journalistic, popular science, literary and artistic youth magazine, formed in 1924 under the name “Red Youth” (1924-1925).

Before the Great Patriotic War, the name changed twice (“Red Students,” 1925–1935; “Soviet Students,” 1936–1967).
In 1925, the magazine was headed by N.K. Krupskaya. As a teacher, she became closely involved in student issues and published a significant number of pedagogical articles here. Around these years, Alexander Rodchenko worked at the magazine, who attracted Vladimir Mayakovsky to collaborate.

The editorial archive contains a certificate from the “Book of Records”, confirming that the editorial office has a unique collection of 36 thousand kisses sent to “St. M." fans of the magazine.
In July-August 1991, there was a special issue of the magazine, 100 pages long, entirely dedicated to The Beatles.

"Technology for Youth"

“Technology for Youth” is a monthly popular science, literary and artistic magazine. Published since July 1933.
“Technology for Youth” is one of the few Soviet popular science magazines published during the Great Patriotic War. It published the best works of Soviet and foreign science fiction.

"Ural Pathfinder"

“Ural Pathfinder” is a popular monthly literary, journalistic, educational magazine about tourism and local history published in Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk).

The first issue of the magazine was published in April 1935, then, after nine issues, the publication was discontinued. The magazine experienced its second birth in 1958.

The magazine published Vladislav Krapivin, Viktor Astafiev, Sergei Drugal, Sergei Lukyanenko, German Drobiz and many others.

"Youth"

Magazines in the USSR.
In our childhood and youth there was no Internet. But the country did not experience information hunger. We found all the most important and interesting things in books, TV shows and periodicals. Each Soviet family subscribed to several titles of newspapers and magazines. Citizens of the USSR eagerly awaited the release of the new issue of their favorite periodical.

The magazine includes poems and stories, board games, comics, puzzles, jokes, and riddles. He organizes leisure time for the whole family, since parents read to young children, and older children need the approval of adults, whether the assignment from the magazine was completed well, or whether the riddle was guessed correctly.

The name of the magazine was chosen based on the fact that funny and cheerful pictures, accompanied by short, witty captions, are always popular with young children. Historically, “Funny Pictures” came out of “Krokodil” - the founding father and first editor of the magazine was “Krokodilsky” cartoonist Ivan Semenov. He also drew the main character – Pencil, who became the symbol of the magazine.

Pencil is an artist, his whole appearance speaks of this: a loose blouse, a beret, a red bow on his neck and a red stylus instead of a nose. He is the inspirer of a group of cheerful people, he and his friends, Samodelkin, Buratino, Chipollino, Dunno, are the constant heroes of “Funny Pictures”. The first Soviet comic book is about them. The magazine's regular columns were also associated with them.

At the "Pencil School" children were taught to draw, at the "Samodelkin School" - to make toys with their own hands, at the "Merry ABC" they were introduced to letters. In 1977, one era ends in the magazine “Funny Pictures” and a new one begins.

Chukovsky, Barto, Mikhalkov, Suteev are being replaced by the “young and arrogant”: editor-in-chief Ruben Varshamov, and with him nonconformist artists Viktor Pivovarov, Ilya Kabakov, Eduard Grokhovsky, Alexander Mitta and “new children”: Eduard Uspensky, Andrei Usachev, Evgeny Milutka.

In 1979, artist Viktor Pivovarov created a new logo for the favorite children's magazine “Funny Pictures”. From now on, the magazine has its own logo: human letters that make up the name of the magazine.

“Funny Pictures” was the only publication in the USSR that was never censored. In particular, the mandatory press notices about the change of leaders of the Soviet state were not published on the pages of the magazine. When L. I. Brezhnev died and a directive was issued to publish his portrait in a mourning frame on the cover of all publications, the editors of “Funny Pictures” managed to prove that against the backdrop of the magazine’s name this would look extremely inappropriate.

Murzilka is a small forest man who existed in popular books for children of the late 19th century. It was invented by the Canadian writer and artist Palmer Cox, who described the dwarf brownie people, related to brownies. At first it was a little man in a tailcoat, with a cane and a monocle. Then Murzilka became an ordinary little dog, helping everyone who was in trouble.

On May 16, 1924, the first issue of the Murzilka magazine was published in the USSR. Murzilka was a small white dog and appeared together with his owner, the boy Petya. In 1937, the artist Aminadav Kanevsky created the image of the correspondent puppy Murzilka, which became famous in the USSR - a yellow fluffy character in a red beret, with a scarf and a camera over his shoulder. Subsequently, the character evolved into a boy correspondent, whose adventures were also the subject of several cartoons.

Writers such as Samuil Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov, Boris Zakhoder, Agnia Barto and Nikolai Nosov began their creative careers in the magazine. In 1977-1983, the magazine published a detective-mystery story about Yabeda-Koryabeda and her agents, and in 1979 - science fiction dreams “Travel there and back” (author and artist - A. Semenov). In 2011, the magazine was included in the Guinness Book of Records. It has been recognized as the longest running children's publication.

N.K. Krupskaya, M.I. Kalinin, Em. spoke on the pages of Pioneer. M. Yaroslavsky, writers S. Ya. Marshak, A. P. Gaidar, L. A. Kassil, B. S. Zhitkov, K. G. Paustovsky, R. I. Fraerman, V. A. Kaverin, A. L Barto, Vitaly Bianki, S. V. Mikhalkov, Yuri Sotnik, V. P. Krapivin, Yu. Kozlov, E. Uspensky and others.

In 1938, the magazine published the fairy tale “Old Man Hottabych” by L. I. Lagin. "Pioneer" had permanent sections on school and pioneer life, journalism, science and technology, art, sports, and children's artistic creativity.

The magazine organized the work of Timurov's teams and detachments. Awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1974). The circulation in 1975 was over 1.5 million copies. The maximum circulation - 1,860,000 copies - was reached in 1986. The magazine is published to this day (small circulation - 1500 copies in March 2015).

At various times, “Koster” was the organ of the Central Committee of the Komsomol and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Marshak, Chukovsky, Schwartz, Paustovsky, Zoshchenko and many others were published in it. Sergei Dovlatov worked for this magazine. And it was here that the first publication of Joseph Brodsky in the Soviet press took place. Also, some works of famous foreign children's writers - Gianni Rodari and Astrid Lindgren - were published here for the first time.

In a popular form, it conveys to the reader (primarily schoolchildren) the achievements of domestic and foreign science, technology, and production. Encourages scientific and technical creativity, promotes professional orientation of schoolchildren.

Regularly publishes works by famous science fiction writers - Kir Bulychev, Robert Silverberg, Ilya Varshavsky, Arthur Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Leonid Kudryavtsev and others.

There was also a supplement to the magazine “Young Technician” - for skilled hands, crafts,
layouts, etc.

Supplement to the magazine "Young Technician"

The magazine introduces children to all the diversity of life in the animal and plant world, fosters a love for nature, teaches them to take care of its riches, helps schoolchildren develop a materialistic understanding of natural phenomena, and talks about the latest discoveries of biological science in a popular form.

"Y.n." promotes the best practices of youth circles, student production teams, school forestries, etc., gives readers practical advice on caring for an aquarium - the corner “Behind the Glass Shore”; for young gardeners and vegetable growers - the section “In the garden, in the vegetable garden,” etc.

Among the stated goals of the publication is to instill in the younger generation a love for the Motherland and nature, biology and ecology. You can send your drawings and poems to the magazine. There was a competition for young naturalists.

V. V. Bianchi, M. M. Prishvin, K. G. Paustovsky, V. P. Astafiev, V. A. Soloukhin, I. I. Akimushkin, V. V. Chaplina and other writers published their articles in the magazine. I. V. Michurin, K. A. Timiryazev, V. A. Obruchev, V. K. Rakhilin and other scientists and popularizers of science.

Needless to say, the magazine was popular during Soviet times. Young people read the magazine “Rovesnik” to bits; circulation reached millions of copies. In the 1980s and 1990s, Rovesnik published the Rock Encyclopedia Rovesnik - practically the first attempt at a rock encyclopedia in Russian. It was written by Sergei Kastalsky, and several encyclopedia articles were published in each issue, in alphabetical order. Kastalsky’s entire “Rock Encyclopedia” was published as a book in 1997. In total, it contains 1357 articles about rock music, 964 illustrations, 210 album reviews, 49 articles about musical styles, discographies, and song lyrics.

At the moment, “Rovesnik” is a popular monthly magazine about music, show business, new movies, videos, education, recreation and entertainment, with a circulation of 30,000 copies.

“Youth” differed from other literary magazines in its great interest in public life and the world around us. There were permanent sections “Science and Technology”, “Sports”, “Facts and Searches”. The magazine was one of the first to highlight the phenomenon of bard song (article by A. Gerber “On Bards and Minstrels”), and in the eighties - “Mitkov”. One list of editors and authors of the magazine “Yunost” looks like a chronicle of Soviet literature of the 50s-90s: Akhmadulina, Voznesensky, Yevtushenko, Rozhdestvensky, Okudzhava, Iskander, Rubtsov, Gladilin, Gorin, Arkanov, Kir Bulychev, Rimma Kazakova, Olzhas Suleimenov, Boris Vasiliev, Aksenov, Voinovich, Kovaldzhi - you open the archived issue of Yunost, and they are all here, still young and smiling from the photographs. “Youth” always remained youth, and tried to keep up with the times.

“Youth” experienced two ninth waves of popularity: in the 60s and at the end of the 80s. Then each issue became an event in the reader’s private life. “Youth” also contained color tabs dedicated to painting, where, among others, such artists as Alexei Leonov, Ilya Glazunov, Mikhail Shemyakin, Vagrich Bakhchanyan and others performed.

In the 60-70s, both the magazine as a whole and individual authors were subject to party criticism. In 1987, a permanent journalistic youth discussion section, “Room 20,” was opened, which quickly gained great popularity among readers. One of the most characteristic features of “Youth” was the humorous section, which in 1956-1972 was called “Vacuum Cleaner”, later - “Green Briefcase”. The editors of the section at different times were Mark Rozovsky, Arkady Arkanov and Grigory Gorin, Viktor Slavkin and Mikhail Zadornov. The emblem of “Youth” is a linocut of the same name by the Lithuanian graphic artist Stasis Krasauskas, which is one of the author’s most famous works (“a round girl’s face with ears of wheat instead of hair.” It is reproduced on the artist’s tombstone.

The covers of the first issues were designed by the famous Soviet artist, founder of constructivism, Alexander Rodchenko. His bright, fashionable covers immediately attracted a large readership. The poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, with an argument that did not tolerate objections, called on the youth audience on the pages of the first issues of the Smena magazine: “Be ready to replace the old people, read the Smena magazine.”

Since its founding, the magazine has published premiere publications of books that later became bestsellers. It was in Smena that the first stories of Mikhail Sholokhov and Alexander Green, poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky appeared, and Konstantin Paustovsky, Lev Kassil, and Valentin Kataev published their first works. An excerpt from Alexei Tolstoy’s new novel “Peter I” and his fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio” were published. In 1975, the Weiner brothers’ novel “The Era of Mercy” appeared on the pages of Smena. Over the years, I. Babel, M. Zoshchenko, A. Gorky, A. Platonov collaborated with the Smena magazine. A. Fadeev, V. Astafiev, V. Bykov, Yu. Nagibin, Yu. Semenov, and the Strugatsky brothers were published on the pages of the Smena magazine.

Since its founding, the information and journalistic section has always played a mainly propaganda role, but with the beginning of perestroika in the mid-80s, Albert Likhanov became the editor-in-chief, and Valery Vinokurov became the editor of the literature and art department, and the magazine revealed previously taboo topics for young people - struggle with hypocrisy, bureaucracy, rock music, youth subcultures and other interesting information.

The magazine has repeatedly published training series for beginners. The first series of articles, “Step by Step,” started in May 1959, began with the basics of radio transmission and reception, and ended with the construction of a network tube superheterodyne broadcast receiver for DV and SV.

In 1983, the magazine published a description and diagram of the first Soviet amateur radio computer, Micro-80. In 1986, the magazine published diagrams, descriptions and program codes for the Radio 86RK amateur radio computer, which was much easier to assemble and configure than the Micro-80 and was software compatible with it. In 1990, the magazine published a series of articles about the Orion-128 personal amateur radio computer, which was compatible with the RK-86, but had greater capabilities.

To attract subscribers to the Komsomol Central Committee, a large-scale campaign was carried out, as a result of which already in 1935 some issues were published with a circulation of more than 150 thousand copies. At the same time, science fiction began to be published in the magazine, the best works of Soviet and foreign science fiction were published.

The magazine became one of the few popular science publications published in the USSR during the war. The only break was made in the period from October 1941 to March 1942. The editors of the magazine organized over 20 all-Russian and international competitions of amateur cars. Using the materials of the magazine and with the participation of its authors, the program “You Can Do It” was broadcast on television. Under the leadership of the magazine, numerous circles and sections, clubs for young scuba divers and homemade car designers were created.

During its existence, the magazine influenced several generations of Soviet citizens. He helped unleash the potential of inventors, innovators and innovators - many of them admitted that as teenagers they read every issue of Technology for Youth. In addition, the magazine popularized many sports that are now common, such as hang gliding, skateboarding, alpine skiing, etc. The magazine “Technology for Youth” is one of the most popular publications in the USSR, with more than 900 issues in its archive, and a total circulation of more than a billion copies !

Until 1965, the magazine (more precisely, the almanac) was published irregularly, with a total of 13 issues published. Since 1966, it became a monthly subscription publication and changed its name to “Modelist-Constructor”.

The magazine contributed to the development and dissemination of technical creativity among the population of the country, as well as the popularization of such sports and modeling as: karting, buggies, track modeling, amateur automobile construction, amateur design of gliders and ultra-light aircraft, velomobiles and single-engine equipment, small-scale mechanization tools for gardens and vegetable gardens

Each issue of the magazine publishes drawings and diagrams of a wide variety of designs - from household appliances to homemade microcars and amateur aircraft (in this regard, the magazine is the only one in the country), as well as materials on the history of technology and the movement of amateur designers in the country and abroad. The authors of the magazine are both famous inventors and designers, as well as simply technology lovers and craftsmen.

The first issue of the publication was published in January 1926. Its title page read “Monthly Popular Science and Adventure Magazine for Teens.” The magazine did not retain its original, general educational direction for long. The era of “shock industrialization” began in the country, and in 1928 the magazine changed its profile. Through the efforts of its editors, a new magazine was then created - “Young Naturalist”, and “Knowledge is Power” became the organ of young technicians.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, publication of the magazine was suspended and resumed in 1946 through the efforts of former editor-in-chief Lev Zhigarev at the Trudrezervizdat publishing house. In the second half of the 1960s, the magazine actively collaborated with famous graphic designers, including Octavio Ferreira de Araujo, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Evgeny Bachurin, Anatoly Brusilovsky, Max Zherebchevsky, Vladimir Zuikov, Francisco Infante-Arana, Vyacheslav Kalinin, Boris Lavrov, Dmitry Lion, Ernst Neizvestny, Nikolai Popov, Yulo Sooster, Ildar Urmanche, Eduard Steinberg and others, became one of the best illustrated periodicals of the USSR. In 1967, the magazine's circulation reached a record 700,000 copies.

In 1968, as a result of a conflict between the editor-in-chief and the founder - the State Committee for Vocational Education - the magazine was transferred to the All-Union Society "Knowledge".

Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Science and Life” Bolshevik N.L. After the revolution, Meshcheryakov reorganized the once popular publication in Russia, choosing the “Marxist-Leninist” path in covering all materials. However, as in the pre-revolutionary publication, the updated journal “Science and Life” set its main task for the reader to popularize knowledge and communicate all the outstanding scientific and practical news in the most popular form possible.

Soon the publication gains great popularity both in the scientific community and among ordinary readers. Since 1938, the journal “Science and Life” has become the printed organ of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The popularity of the magazine “Science and Life” began to grow rapidly in the 60s; there was not enough paper to provide the huge circulation that the Soviet reader needed. By the mid-60s, the circulation increased more than 20 times. I had to limit my subscription.

A wide range of interesting journalistic materials on various topics is reflected in the names of the sections themselves: “Science on the March”, “Your Free Time”, “Briefly about Science and Technology”, “Household Affairs”, “Entertainment is not without benefit”. Scientific discoveries and technical achievements, stories and excerpts from literary works of science fiction writers, pseudo-scientific hypotheses and their refutations, leisure time with homemade equipment, puzzles - this is not the entire list of interesting materials on the pages of the Science and Life magazine.

Today, the journal “Science and Life” is published in printed and electronic formats - to suit any of the reader’s preferences.

Since 1961, the literary supplement “Seeker” has been published, which publishes adventure and fantasy works. Among the published authors are Ray Bradbury, Francis Karsak, Robert Sheckley, Isaac Asimov, Stanislav Lem, Arthur Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Olga Larionova, Sinclair Lewis, Lazar Lagin, Kir Bulychev and other Soviet and foreign authors.

The magazine was designed for amateurs and professionals of photography and film art. Its pages published works by Soviet and foreign photographers, as well as articles on the theory, practice and history of photography. In 1976, the magazine's circulation reached 240 thousand copies. In the same year he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor. Since 1992, it began to be called “Photography”. In the last years of its existence, the circulation and editorial staff were significantly reduced. Stopped publishing in mid-1997.

At the origins of the magazine were Yuri Vizbor, who worked in it for 7 years since its founding, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, and poet Evgeniy Khramov. The topics of the magazine were documentary, chronicle and artistic sound recordings, reproducing speeches of government officials, public figures, masters of art, as well as the best examples of classical and modern art, folk art, new literature, music, theater, and pop music. The magazine constantly published songs performed by Soviet pop stars: I. Kobzon, V. Obodzinsky, S. Rotaru, A. Pugacheva and many others, popular VIA (“Pesnyary”, “Gems”, “Flame”, etc.) , famous foreign performers, the demand for whose recordings in the Soviet Union significantly exceeded the supply.

Thematic and special issues of Krugozor were also published in Russian, English, German, Japanese and other languages. The first sound book in the USSR (about Lenin) was published by Krugozor in the year of the 100th anniversary of the leader’s birth (1970).

The magazine consisted of 16 pages, 4 cover pages (which also contained text) and 6 flexible double-sided records with a rotation speed of 33⅓ revolutions per minute, each no more than seven minutes of sound. Floppy disks were initially printed on a special machine purchased in France. Since 1991, part of the circulation was released with an audio cassette, and since 1992 it was decided to abandon flexible records. The circulation in 1973 was 450 thousand copies, in 1983 - 500 thousand, and in the spring of 1991 - only 60 thousand copies. In 1992, the magazine was closed due to financial difficulties.

According to the authors’ plan, the sound magazine “Kolobok” introduced children of preschool and primary school age to the history, culture, nature of the USSR, musical works, children’s fiction, and folklore.

The magazine consisted of 20 pages, including covers (which also contained text) and 2 flexible double-sided records with a rotation speed of 33⅓ revolutions per minute, each no more than seven minutes of sound. On the pages of the magazine, printed text and illustrations are often organically linked with literary and musical tales, interludes, etc., recorded on flexible gramophone records. The pages of the magazine, to which audio tracks were attached, as in the “big brother” - the Krugozor magazine - were marked with a small icon: an audio disc indicating the number of a flexible gramophone record from the magazine, and the slogan was added: “See the picture, listen to the record.”

A quarter of a million copies, which sell out instantly (of which 70 thousand copies of the circulation go abroad), eloquently speaks of the fact that young readers fell in love with a story-telling magazine, a theater magazine, and a music magazine. The literary hero of the children's illustrated audio magazine - Kolobok - is a cheerful character, borrowed from one of the most popular Russian folk tales, who tells instructive stories to readers and listeners. Famous children's writers, poets, artists, composers, musicians and actors help him in this.

By July 1987 (on the 60th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of the magazine), 1066 issues of Roman-Gazeta had been published with a total circulation of over 1 billion 300 million copies. During this period, 528 authors spoke in Roman-Gazeta, of which 434 were Soviet writers and 94 foreign. 440 novels, 380 stories and 12 poetic works were published. The design of the magazine changed several times, there were at least 5 different types of covers. In 1989, the magazine's circulation exceeded 3 million copies.

The first issue of 1914 was published in a circulation of 12 thousand copies, in 1974 the circulation was 12 million, in 1990 it reached 23 million copies, but in 1991 alone it fell almost by half.

A. Ulyanova-Elizarova, N. Krupskaya, I. Armand, A. Artyukhina, V. Velichkina, M. Kollontai, L. Menzhinskaya and others participated in the creation of the magazine and at different times were members of the editorial board. “Rabotnitsa” primarily covered women's socialist movement.

The magazine actively responded to changes in the political situation, sometimes surpassing newspapers in the speed of presentation of material. Gradually, but especially actively in the post-war years, it reoriented itself to covering social and everyday issues. She also published articles on the topics of motherhood, raising children and adolescents, excerpts from literary works and reproductions of famous paintings.

From the first issue in 1924, the pages of the magazine published “advice and instructions on how to cope with these household chores in such a way as to find more leisure and time for social life, for building a great new life,” to which about half a page was devoted in the issue.

A special section for children was devoted to the publication of “samples of children's creativity.” There was also a section “In the footsteps of unpublished letters” or “According to letters from readers,” where the editors reported on what was done in response to reader complaints or requests. In the post-war years (1945-53) he published many materials about life in orphanages.

The first issue published an appeal from the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Mikhail Kalinin, to female readers, which explained the role of the publication in introducing working women to the social and cultural life of the country. Krupskaya, M. Ulyanova, Lunacharsky and many others spoke on the pages of the magazine. Demyan Bedny, Maxim Gorky, Serafimovich, Tvardovsky and other famous writers wrote for him.

They also published articles on “women’s topics”; the magazines educated women who were careless about their appearance. The publication had a network of women - rural correspondents. Each issue was accompanied by a free manual - lessons on cutting and sewing, knitting, fashion, etc. In 2010, the layout of the magazine and its concept underwent significant changes. Natalya Shcherbanenko became the new editor-in-chief of the magazine, and the main topic was a country house and everything that surrounds it.
Photo reports are the favorite format of Ogonyok magazine. They always occupied a large part on the pages of the publication. The lives of many talented publicists and writers are connected with the history of Ogonyok magazine. Each period of the magazine's leadership is marked by new interesting creative achievements.

In the 50s, the poet Alexei Surkov became the editor-in-chief of the Ogonyok magazine. It was he who suggested placing on the cover a bright image of a Soviet citizen - a leader in production, an astronaut, an athlete, an artist. Since the 50s, the content of the Soviet magazine Ogonyok has become more and more interesting, detective stories with continuations, insert reproductions with masterpieces of world painting, and many interesting columns appear. From the 60s to the early 90s. The popularity of the Ogonyok magazine among readers increased. The publication was not always available for free subscription, sometimes only through an enterprise. In those years, the magazine took an active socio-political position.

In Soviet times, the works of famous Soviet writers Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexei Tolstoy, Isaac Babel, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, Alexander Tvardovsky were published in a separate supplement to the magazine “Ogonyok” - “Library”.

With the collapse of the USSR, just a few years later, the Ogonyok magazine was “relegated” to the background among similar publications, unable to withstand the competition of the modern format. Since 2005, Ogonyok magazine has been published in a new format. The publication has retained its corporate identity and logo, but otherwise it is a magazine with a new design, different sections and a different readership.

The editorial board of the magazine “Behind the Wheel” was formed by the famous Soviet publicist Mikhail Koltsov. Such celebrities as the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and artists Alexander Zakharov and Boris Efimov collaborated with the publication at different times.

Many generations of our car enthusiasts were brought up on the automobile magazine “Behind the Wheel.” All those who were interested in automotive history and technology read this magazine from cover to cover. It was a problem to write it out and purchase it at the kiosk. Even when the circulation of “Behind the Wheel” in the USSR was more than 4 million, the magazine was not enough for everyone.

Over the years of its existence, the magazine “Behind the Wheel” has become a real reference book on the automotive world. The editors of the magazine “Behind the Wheel” selected materials and photo publications that would timely cover all the new products of the domestic automobile industry, as well as introduce them to the global achievements of the automotive industry. In addition, if you set out to trace the entire history of the development and formation of domestic cars, you will not find a better and most detailed publication than “Behind the Wheel”.

For car enthusiasts and professionals, materials were posted on how to become a good driver, mechanic, make independent repairs, and identify the cause of a breakdown.

He covered the Soviet magazine “Behind the Wheel” and the difficult fate of domestic roads, talked about international exhibitions, car rallies, and competitions. Such a huge range of interesting materials in the magazine became a moment of unique authorial prestige. Many journalists in the USSR dreamed of working in the editorial office of the magazine “Behind the Wheel”.

Since the times of the USSR, the magazine "Behind the Wheel" has been the initiator of various competitions among car enthusiasts and professionals. One of the most famous is the “Race of Stars”, held since 1978. Currently, the Za Rulem publishing house publishes the Za Rulem magazine and newspaper and a number of other publications on automotive topics.

The symbol of the publication is a drawing: a red crocodile with a pitchfork. The magazine was published three times a month. The circulation reached 6.5 million copies. In the late 20s, an airplane was built using funds collected from the magazine's subscribers and its employees. After the closure of Rabochaya Gazeta in 1930, the publisher of Krokodil became the Pravda publishing house with its own printing plant, which was not directly involved in organizing political campaigns.

In choosing the strategy for his satirical activities, “Crocodile” could act relatively independently. Thus, the magazine opposed RAPP and its leader L.L. Averbakh, in the fall of 1933 it pointedly did not publish articles on the opening of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, tried to resist the fight against “pests”, etc. Writers M worked in the magazine on a permanent basis M. Zoshchenko, I. A. Ilf, E. P. Petrov, V. P. Kataev, M. D. Volpin, A. S. Bukhov, V. E. Ardov, Emil Krotky, M. A. Glushkov, artists M. M. Cheremnykh, Kukryniksy, Boris Efimov, K. P. Rotov. E. G. Bagritsky, Yu. K. Olesha, S. I. Kirsanov and others published periodically.

Since 1934, Krokodil has been the most important official mouthpiece of politics at all levels of social and political life. The magazine published both satirical materials and illustrations of significant achievements of the USSR. The satire of "Crocodile" was not limited to minor everyday topics - exposure of bureaucrats, drunkards, bribe-takers, hacks, dudes, as well as criticism of incompetent middle and lower-level managers, it also reflected key issues and central events of domestic and foreign policy, extending from denunciations of Leon Trotsky, spies and “enemies of the people” to the flagellation of West German revanchism, American imperialism and its satellites, colonialism, NATO, etc.

Until the start of perestroika, the magazine's satire remained harsh in nature, with minimal exceptions. During the corresponding historical periods, Krokodil adhered to a policy of combating “rootless cosmopolitans,” etc. During the “Doctors’ Plot,” the magazine published cartoons of an extreme nature, significantly exceeding in viciousness similar materials from other Soviet periodicals. Film director Mikhail Romm noted the exaggerated offensiveness of a number of caricatures with an emphatic racial orientation, published in Krokodil between March 1949 and January 1953. The magazine Fitil became the film double for Krokodil.

Due to the limitations of the printing press, Krokodil's printing was unique until the 1980s. One side was printed in four colors (that is, it was full color), the second - in two (black and color).

The magazine published articles about domestic and foreign novelties on the silver screen, articles about the history of cinema, criticism, and creative portraits of actors and filmmakers. In 1984, the publication's circulation was 1,900 thousand copies. The publication of the magazine dates back to the time when cinema became the most popular art form in the early 20th century.

V. I. Lenin himself noted that the propaganda effectiveness of cinema lies in its mass character. At various times, the magazine “Soviet Screen” was published under the leadership of such eminent film critics, journalists, writers and screenwriters as Alexander Kurs, Dal, Orlov, Yuri Rybakov. For residents of the USSR, cinema, as an entertainment factor, came first. All the famous “celestials” of the screen were known by name, and there were plenty of film idols in the USSR.

The magazine “Soviet Screen” was collected and stored for years, photographs of favorite actors were cut out and boring wallpaper was covered over the bed, doors in toilets, as well as cabins in trucks of truck drivers and compartments of conductors.

Reading interviews with the favorites of the Soviet public on the pages of the magazine "Soviet Screen", young schoolchildren dreamed of acting glory, and ordinary citizens learned with interest about the most humane and humane Soviet cinema in the world, as well as about the latest films of the foreign screen. The publication was unable to recover from the economic crisis in the country in the late 90s; the magazine ceased to exist in 1998.

The tart smell of Soviet realities

And dusty magazines

We tried so hard to forget

That no one has forgotten yet

Maybe it really was better then

If bright sadness glimmers,

Live as before - borrow until payday,

If it’s raining, say “let it be!”

Feeling the cold on the skin,

Sail wherever the crazy wind takes you...

We were just younger before

So they looked at everything easier.

Vladimir Zakharov.

The childhood of Soviet children was characterized by the absence of the Internet. The information deficit was filled with the help of books, television, and periodicals. Traditionally, each family subscribed to several titles of magazines and newspapers. And among them there has always been children's periodicals, which fulfill the main task of the party - the civic education of the younger generation in the spirit of communist ideals.

The kindest storyteller "Kolobok"

Young readers in each issue found sound records with popular fairy tales and fascinating stories. Spoken artists, musicians, composers, famous children's writers and artists were involved in the release of the publication. Readers from 70 countries around the world did not remain indifferent to “Kolobok” - several tens of thousands of copies were sent abroad every month.

The main character, on whose behalf the story was told, was close and understandable to children. Kolobok not only told them the most interesting stories from the lives of their grandparents, but also immersed them in the world of classical music, introduced them to the art of theater, and answered their eternal “Why?” The magazine had a huge advantage - the “survivability” of vinyl. One generation grew up, a second came to replace it - and new readers and listeners used the well-preserved material.

Guinness book record holder - “Murzilka”

In 2001, the magazine was awarded the Guinness Book of Fame - it has been published continuously since 1924, becoming a cult favorite for many generations. The magazine was designed for preschool and primary school age. He provided colorful and accessible information about nature, the lives of children at school, at home, and about the development of the country. In addition to Soviet writers, foreign writers prepared articles for publication. Poems, drawings, and puzzles captivated children from the first pages of the magazine and held their attention until the end. An unusual character and friend Murzilka - the main character of the publication - taught children some school subjects, gave in-depth knowledge on the topics “Safety School”, “Art Gallery”.

The prototype of modern comics is “Funny Pictures”

“Funny Pictures” is one of the children's magazines that even adults were sincerely interested in. A minimum of text, a maximum of illustrations, and comics attracted children from three to six years old, introducing them to periodicals. The humorous characters were so popular that the magazine was published in huge circulations. Having plunged into the world of fairy tales and creativity, the child could easily master the surrounding space - knowledge was given unobtrusively, in a playful form. We always looked forward to the new issue.

Successful story of "Perivinka"

Famous Ukrainian authors: Maxim Rylsky, Vladimir Sosyura, Natalya Zabila, Mikhail Stelmakh and others became the founders of the literary and artistic publication “Barvinok”. Initially it was published in Ukrainian in Kharkov. Later it became popular throughout the entire Soviet Union - it was published in more than 2 million copies and was duplicated in Russian. The Central Committee of the LKSMU gave prizes to the magazine's authors for the best works, interesting and useful information about Ukrainian traditions.

Youth educational magazines of the USSR are worthy competitors of the Internet

For older children, the favorite publications were “Pioneer”, “Bonfire”, “Young Technician”, “Young Naturalist”. The magazine sections were educational, entertaining and developing at the same time. Among the authors one could meet practicing biologists, physicists, and numerous scientists from other branches of science. Published material fostered devotion communist ideals, high moral and ethical qualities, love and loyalty to the country in which they lived, studied and created.

Literary magazines published works of famous and modern classics interspersed with fantasy, popular science stories, and poetry. Several generations grew up on the works of Kassil, Uspensky, Aleksin, and the Strugatsky brothers. Interest in knowledge and hard work were instilled in childhood - this is how progressive youth appeared in the Union, capable of building a healthy society.