All Union First Programme

The All-Union Radio was established in Moscow and began broadcasting on November 23, 1924, initially on long and medium waves, later also on ultra-short waves, distributed via the wire broadcasting system on Channel 1 (directly in the audio frequency band, as a result of which the simplest subscriber loudspeaker was required for reception). The channel was changed to the All Union First Programme in 1945 with a political focus. In 1960, a duplicate of the First Program of All-Union Radio for the Russian Far East was introduced (Khabarovsk 270 kHz), in 1964 a second duplicate of the First Program of All-Union Radio was introduced. By the end of the 1970s, there were four duplicates of the First Program of All-Union Radio.^[1][2] On January 1, 1991, the name Radio-1 was assigned to the 1st Program of All-Union Radio.^[3]

On September 2, 1991, the retransmission of Radio-1 was transferred from the 1st to the 3rd channel of wired broadcasting, the frequencies of Radio-1 on ultra-short waves were transferred to Radio Russia, and in those regions and areas where Radio-2 was retransmitted in this range, Radio-1 was transferred to its frequencies.^[4][5][6][7] The other open frequencies of the All Union First Programme were taken over by the state radio channels of the newly independent republics.

• Broadcasting in the Soviet Union
• Eastern Bloc information dissemination