On February 27, 1919, a human voice was heard on live radio for the first time instead of Morse code. The announcer said, “Hello, hello. This is the Nizhny Novgorod laboratory speaking. One, two, three. Can anyone hear me?” The range of the signal was 500 kilometers and puzzled the locals extremely: Nizhny Novgorod started receiving telegrams reading “Heard a human voice on the radio. Demand explanations!”
That experiment encouraged the first irregular broadcasts from the Nizhny Novgorod laboratory, and a year later the broadcasting was joined by professional stations in Moscow, Kazan, Sverdlovsk, and other cities.
In 1922, a radio station named after the Comintern was opened in Moscow and organized the first voice transmission and the first radio concert of the Bolshoi Theater artists. This influenced the formation and popularization of the public amateur radio movement.
Regular broadcasting began two years later with the debut program of the all-news radio. A little earlier, the “Decree on the permission to use private radios” had been issued, and the number of Soviet radio fans experienced a tenfold increase. However, the general public acted on sheer enthusiasm: they neither had specialized literature nor formed a purposeful movement.
The creation of the Radio Friendship Society (RFS) in 1924 was positively viewed, and the number of people joining the organization grew rapidly. Thus, over the course of three years, more than 150,000 people became members of the RFS. In addition to their initiative and technical assistance, which helped establish almost half of the Soviet Union’s broadcasting stations, the Radio Friendship Society provided radio enthusiasts with informational assistance by publishing a specialized magazine.
The main almanac of the RFS was the “Radio vsem” magazine (Radio for Everybody), published every two weeks between September 15, 1925 and June 1930. In the pre-war decade, “Radio vsem” merged with another specialized magazine called “Radiolyubitel” (Radio Enthusiast) into the state-controlled journal named “Radiofront”. The magazine was distributed in thousands of copies and provided information about the most important achievements in radio-frequency engineering and communications, popularized amateur radio and radiosport, featured descriptions of industrial and amateur devices, and had a Q& A column.
After the war and to this day, the main specialized magazine has been called “Radio” and it still publishes extensive organizational, technical and educational materials on the issues of radio in Russia and around the world.
That experiment encouraged the first irregular broadcasts from the Nizhny Novgorod laboratory, and a year later the broadcasting was joined by professional stations in Moscow, Kazan, Sverdlovsk, and other cities.
In 1922, a radio station named after the Comintern was opened in Moscow and organized the first voice transmission and the first radio concert of the Bolshoi Theater artists. This influenced the formation and popularization of the public amateur radio movement.
Regular broadcasting began two years later with the debut program of the all-news radio. A little earlier, the “Decree on the permission to use private radios” had been issued, and the number of Soviet radio fans experienced a tenfold increase. However, the general public acted on sheer enthusiasm: they neither had specialized literature nor formed a purposeful movement.
The creation of the Radio Friendship Society (RFS) in 1924 was positively viewed, and the number of people joining the organization grew rapidly. Thus, over the course of three years, more than 150,000 people became members of the RFS. In addition to their initiative and technical assistance, which helped establish almost half of the Soviet Union’s broadcasting stations, the Radio Friendship Society provided radio enthusiasts with informational assistance by publishing a specialized magazine.
The main almanac of the RFS was the “Radio vsem” magazine (Radio for Everybody), published every two weeks between September 15, 1925 and June 1930. In the pre-war decade, “Radio vsem” merged with another specialized magazine called “Radiolyubitel” (Radio Enthusiast) into the state-controlled journal named “Radiofront”. The magazine was distributed in thousands of copies and provided information about the most important achievements in radio-frequency engineering and communications, popularized amateur radio and radiosport, featured descriptions of industrial and amateur devices, and had a Q& A column.
After the war and to this day, the main specialized magazine has been called “Radio” and it still publishes extensive organizational, technical and educational materials on the issues of radio in Russia and around the world.
