Radio Petersburg

Northwest Branch of Radio Broadcasting JSC

On December 1, 1924, the North-Western branch of Radio Broadcasting JSC was founded, and on December 24, 1924, it began broadcasting.

At the very beginning, until 1926 , the studio of the radio station is located on Pesochnaya Street (now Professor Popov Street ). The power of the first transmitter created by the employees of the Central Radio Laboratory is equal to one kilowatt.

In 1926, for the Leningradsky radio, a studio was equipped on Herzen Street , in house No. 37. The power of the radio station doubles.

Leningrad Broadcasting Radio Center (1928-1930)

In 1928, Radio Transmission JSC and all its branches, including North-West, were abolished, broadcasting in Leningrad was transferred to the Leningrad Broadcasting Radio Center of the People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs. In the building of the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications named. M. A. Bonch-Bruevich began the construction of a broadcasting center, from which the Leningrad Radio broadcast until the early 1930s. The transmitter power of the radio station becomes 10 kW.

From the beginning of the 1930s to this day, radio studio studios are located in the Leningrad House of Radio, on Italianskaya street, in house number 27.

Leningrad Radio Center (1930-1933)

In 1930, the Leningrad Broadcasting Center and the Leningrad Radio Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs were merged into the Leningrad Radio Center, which was transferred to the Leningrad Radio Department of the People’s Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs. In 1931, the Leningrad Broadcasting Committee was established.

As part of the Lenteleradio (1933-1991)

In 1933, the Leningrad Radio Broadcasting Committee was removed from the People’s Commissariat of Communications and renamed the Leningrad Committee of Radio Information and Radio Broadcasting, the transmitting part was left as the Leningrad Radio Directorate of the USSR People’s Commissariat of Communication ^[1] , and in 1939 it was divided into Leningrad broadcasting directorate ^[2] (broadcasting, in 1941, merged with the Directorate of the Leningrad radio in Leningrad Directorate Radiocommunication and broadcasting) and the Directorate of urban radio transmission with minute (wire broadcasting).

In the 1930s, Leningrad Radio had a network of radio stations in the suburbs of the city. So in Kolpino in 1931, the RV-53 radio station with a capacity of 100 kW began operation. However, with the outbreak of war, all stations, except the central one, cease to operate, and the Kolpino radio station is evacuated to Leningrad, where it is put into operation on the territory of Datsan on Primorsky Prospekt . The antenna for it, for the purpose of camouflage, is placed on a barrage balloon ^[3] . In 1958, the Radio House ^[4] was transferred from the Leningrad Directorate of Telecommunications and Radio Broadcasting to the Leningrad Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting, and in 1973 the Directorate itself was renamed the Union Center for Broadcasting and Radio Communication No. 2 (since 1987 - the Production Association of Broadcasting and Radio Communication No. 2 "(POR-2), since 1992 - State Enterprise of Radio Broadcasting and Radio Communication No. 2" (GPR-2), by 2002 - the Center for Radio Broadcasting and Radio Communication No. 2 "(TsRR-2)).

Currently, the radio is broadcasting from the Leningrad Radio and Television Broadcasting Center on 3 Akademika Pavlova Street , at a frequency of 69.47 VHF (transmitter power: 15 kW, transmit antenna height: 250 meters, sound format: stereo) ^[5] . And also on the third channel of the City Radio Broadcast Network .

Leningrad Radio did not interrupt its broadcasting in the besieged city . And then radio was for Leningraders the only source of information that could support people in such difficult years. Radio denied fascist propaganda and talked about the successes of Soviet soldiers at the borders of the defense of Leningrad. As Olga Berggolz said: “Nowhere did the radio mean so much as in our city during the days of the war . ”
In addition to Olga Berggolz, during the days of the war, Vsevolod Vishnevsky , Nikolai Tikhonov , Dmitry Shostakovich , Maria Yudina, Maria Petrova , journalists Moses Blumberg, Lazar Magrachev , Matvey Frolov and many others spoke at the microphones of the Leningrad Radio.

Journalists of the Leningrad Radio went to the front to record reports, and they can rightly be called pioneers of the front-line reporting.

On August 9, 1942 the premiere of the Seventh Symphony of Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich took place, and the Leningrad Radio broadcasted the concert from the Great Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic . And for the entire time the Leningrad Symphony was broadcast, no air bombs fell on the besieged city, and there was never a sound of an air alert. ^[6]

The house on the corner of Malaya Sadovaya and Italianskaya Streets was built in 1912-1914 in the neoclassical style for the St. Petersburg Noble Assembly, designed by the architects of the Kosyakov brothers - Vasily Antonovich , Vladimir Antonovich and George Antonovich.

• During the First World War , from December 6, 1914 , the building houses the infirmary of the Japanese Red Cross
• In December 1915, a temporary Orthodox church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was set up on the second floor of the building
• After the departure of the Japanese, the hospital becomes Russian and is located at this address until 1917.
• In 1918, the organization Proletarian Culture was located in the building.
• In 1924, the building opened the cinema "Colossus"
• In 1933, the Leningrad Proletcult and the cinema left the house of the former Noble Assembly, and the Leningrad Radio moved to its walls; here it exists to this day ^[7] .

Petersburg panorama

The daily morning program of Radio Petersburg is an overview of cultural, social, political events in the life of the Northern Capital. Every day, guests are invited to the program - politicians, scientists, culture and sports. Petersburg Panorama includes the following headings:

• "Morning work-out"
• "Results of the week"
• "Historical calendar"
• Health for All
• “Review of political events with Sergey Tsyplyaev”
• Newspaper Review
• “Radio journal about science“ Reference point “”
• “We are for tolerance”
• “Your safety”
• “This is in Russian!”
• "Acting Foyer"
• The Gardener's Diary
• "Cat house"
• "Marginal notes"
• "Hour of Health"
• “A question with an edge!” (In conjunction with the weekly “AiF-Petersburg”)
• “Freestyle” - the author’s program of Sergey Ilchenko and Zoe Kravchuk "

It aired daily - from 7:00 to 12:00 on weekdays and from 8:00 to 12:00 on weekends. ^[eight]

Noon

Daily daily music and literary channel of the radio "Petersburg". Every day, the program discusses cultural news and memorable dates. The guests of the program are musicians and artists who can be asked questions live.
An integral part of "Half Day" are radio shows of classic and contemporary literary works, as well as a concert at the request of "Favorite Melodies".

It aired daily from 12:05 to 15:00. ^[eight]

City and townspeople

The program, in which conversations are held, concerning mainly the social sphere of life in St. Petersburg. Radio listeners can participate in a conversation and ask questions to program guests.

It aired on weekdays from 5:05 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. ^[eight]

Petersburg Historical Club

The program first aired in 1993. At its origins were the well-known radio journalist A.V. Soldatov and a prominent historian, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education, professor V.I. Startsev.

From 2001 to the present - the author and presenter Andrei Leonidovich Vassoevich, Doctor of Philosophy, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Rector of the St. Petersburg Eastern Academy, Professor of the Department of Political Psychology of St. Petersburg State University, Professor of the Department of Theory of Culture History of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen.

Over the years, famous historians Ostrovsky, Froyanov, and many others took part in the program. The program aired on Sunday at 18:00 and at midnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.

• Elizaveta Blagodatova - host of the St. Petersburg Panorama program
• Elena Vorobyova - host of the program “City and Citizens”
• Zoya Kravchuk - host of the St. Petersburg Panorama program
• Konstantin Petruk - host of the St. Petersburg Panorama program
• Alexander Fedorov - host of the program “City and Citizens”
• Marina Filistovich - music editor of the radio "Petersburg"
• Nina Lukicheva - editor-in-chief of the morning broadcasting of Petersburg radio

• Yuri Radkevich - Head of the Broadcasting Department
• Elena Kiyko - Deputy Head of the Broadcasting Department
• Alexander Alexandrovich Barten - Host of Writers at the Microphone

This list lists the broadcast frequencies of the radio station by broadcasting city ^[9] :

• St. Petersburg - 801 NE
• Vyborg - 67.79 VHF
• Kingisepp - 68.93 VHF
• Meadows - 70.88 VHF
• Priozersk - 70.82 VHF
• Tikhvin - 66.92 VHF

• Channel Five (Russia)
• Open studio
• Author’s channel "Nevsky Prospect"
• Children's choir of television and radio of St. Petersburg

• Official site of the radio "Petersburg"
• Radio program "Petersburg"
• Interview with the Director of Radio Petersburg Yuri Radkevich
• Federal State Unitary Enterprise Radio Broadcast Network of St. Petersburg
• Tour of the Fifth Channel. Information factory
• Broadcasting Company "Petersburg-Fifth Channel". Photoreport from the Leningrad television center and the Radio House
• Unofficial archive of programs of the St. Petersburg Historical Club
• Selected issues of the St. Petersburg Historical Club on the site of the magazine "Kokurentsiya and market"