Za Rulem

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Za Rulem
Za Rulem 1928-01 cover.png
First Issue of Za Rulem
EditorMaxim Kadakov
Categories Automobile magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation 460,000 / month (2010)
First issue23 February 1928
CompanyZa Rulem publishing house
Country Russia
Language Russian
Websitezr.ru
ISSN 0321-4249

Za Rulem (Russian: Behind the steering wheel) is a popular Russian monthly magazine about cars and the automotive industry. Before 1989, it was the only automobile periodical in the USSR, designed for a wide readership. By the end of 1980 the magazine's circulation reached 4.5 million copies.

Contents

History and profile

Za Rulem was founded on 23 February 1928, and the first issue was published in April 1928. [1]

Quote from the first issue :

We hope that our readers will not only narrow circles of specialists, but the broad masses of the working people, for the first time introduces the ideas of motorization. Our magazine is the first and only experience of mass edition of the popular magazine devoted to cars and roads

The following artists performed design work for the magazine: Boris Efimov and Alexander Zakharov (1976-1988). [2] [3] Vladimir Mayakovsky also worked for the magazine.

During Soviet times, the magazine was a 30-leaf notebook of simple matte paper, but in the 1990s, they began to add more pages. In May 2008, the magazine updated the typeface of the logo, the old style of the journal logo having been used since the 1970s.

Za Rulem is published by a publishing company of the same name on a monthly basis. [4] In August 2009, the publisher created a new website. Since January 2010 the editor in chief has been Anton Chuykin (previously Peter Menshikh was in the post).

460,500 copies of Za Rulem were circulating during the period of 2010-2011, making it the sixth best-selling European automobile magazine. [4]

Other projects of the publishing house

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References

  1. Jukka Pietiläinen (2008). "Media Use in Putin's Russia". Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. 24 (3): 365–385. doi: 10.1080/13523270802267906 .
  2. ru/archive/2003/23/zackharov / refer to the long-awaited album
  3. Interview with Alexander Zakharov Auto Review. 28 February 2003.
  4. 1 2 "World Magazine Trends 2010/2011" (PDF). FIPP. Retrieved 31 March 2015.