“Russian Fan Herald” is a magazine about the subculture of football fans, the first fan edition of modern Russia [1] .
| Russian fan herald | |
|---|---|
 Cover of the first issue of the magazine | |
| Abbreviation ( ISO 4 ) | RFV |
| Tongue | Russian |
| A country | USSR, Russia |
| Publisher | samizdat |
| Edition History | from 1990 to 2007 |
History
It was founded in 1990 by Andrey Malosolov , known in fan circles as Batumsky. According to Batumsky, the idea of creation - RFV, was born to him after writing a thesis on the topic “Political and Musical Samizdat in the USSR”. The first issue of the Russian Fan Herald was illegally printed in the office of VEB , where at that moment the first copiers in the USSR were located . The magazine appeared at different intervals until 2009 and spawned fashion and a boom in creating fan-made samizdat (fan-zins) in the country. Despite the authors' affiliation with the CSKA movement, “Russian Fan Herald” was always considered fan-made and talked about the activities of the entire fan movement of the country. Andrei Malosolov admitted that the RFV was greatly influenced by rock samizdat, as well as the works of Daniil Kharms and Mikhail Zoshchenko , in connection with which the publication's hallmark was a unique ironic style of presentation, which was called glum on fan slang. Among the achievements of the “Russian Fan Herald” it can be noted that it was this publication that the famous football commentator and editor-in-chief of the NTV-Plus sports channels, Vasily Utkin, gave his first interview. It was also the first time that the author’s interview with the cult British writer Dougie Brimson , known for his works on the fan subculture, appeared on the pages of the RFV.
In total, 27 issues of the magazine were published. The first three issues of the magazine were simply called “Fan Herald” and the final name was confirmed only in the fourth issue. Then the logo of the publication appeared on the cover - the bell, which, according to Andrei Malosolov, symbolized the alarm bell and was also a stylization of the logo of the Society “Memory” . [2] Twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh issues were published under the name "New Russian Fan Herald."