Ogoniok
Frequency | Weekly |
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First issue | 21 December 1899 |
Final issue | 21 December 2020 |
Company | Kommersant Publishing Group |
Country | Russia |
Based in | Moscow |
Language | Russian |
Website | Ogoniok |
Ogoniok[1] (Russian: Огонёк, IPA: [ɐɡɐˈnʲɵk] (listen), lit. 'Spark') was one of the oldest weekly illustrated magazines in Russia.
History and profile[]
Ogoniok has issued since 21 December [O.S. 9 December] 1899.[2][3] It was re-established in the Soviet Union in 1923 by Mikhail Koltsov. The headquarters is in Moscow.[4] In 1957 the circulation of the magazine was 850,000 copies.[5]
The colour magazine reached the pinnacle of its popularity in the Perestroika years, when its editor-in-chief Vitaly Korotich "was guiding Ogoniok to a pro-American and pro-capitalist position".[6] Those years are the subject matter of the book Small Fires: Letters From the Soviet People to Ogonyok Magazine 1987-1990 (Summit Books, New York, 1990) selected and edited by Christopher Cerf, , and with an introduction by Korotich. The magazine sold 1.5 million copies in 1987 and 4.6 million copies in 1990.[2]
In the early 1990s, Ogoniok was owned by Boris Berezovsky, and its popularity started to decline. It sold 0.2 million copies in 1993.[2] , the former editor of Moskovskiye Novosti, took over as editor in 2003. As of 2004, it was published by the Russian OVA-PRESS publishing house. At the height of the 2008–2009 Russian financial crisis, in January 2009, the publication was suspended due to an ownership change.[7]
After a four-month break, publication of Ogoniok was resumed on 18 May 2009, by Kommersant Publishing Group. The first issue published by Kommersant is the 5079th Ogoniok since 1899.[8]
In December 2020, release of Ogoniok was suspended due to financial problems.[9]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Sometimes transliterated as Ogonyok.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Jukka Pietiläinen (2008). "Media Use in Putin's Russia". Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. 24 (3): 365–385. doi:10.1080/13523270802267906.
- ^ "Media and Journalism in Russia". SRAS. Archived from the original on 28 May 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
- ^ The Europa World Year: Kazakhstan - Zimbabwe. Taylor & Francis. 2004. p. 3566. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ Ludmilla B. Turkevich (Autumn 1958). "Soviet Literary Periodicals". Books Abroad. 32 (4): 369–374. doi:10.2307/40097964. JSTOR 40097964.
- ^ David M. Kotz, Fred Weir (1997). "Chapter 4: Glasnost and the intelligentsia". Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System. London: Routledge. p. 65. ISBN 0-415-14316-0
- ^ Telen, Lyudmila (25 February 2009). "Закроется ли "Огонек"? " (in Russian). Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
- ^ Перерыв на обет. Ogoniok, no. 1 (5079) (in Russian). 18 May 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2009.
- ^ "Новогодний сюрприз". www.kommersant.ru (in Russian). 21 December 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
External links[]
Media related to Ogoniok at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in Russian)
- Defunct official website (archival version)
- Archive 1945-1991
- Magazines established in 1899
- Literary magazines published in Russia
- Russian-language magazines
- Literary magazines published in the Soviet Union
- Weekly magazines published in Russia
- 1899 establishments in the Russian Empire
- Magazines published in Moscow