Radio Moscow

For the blues rock band, see Radio Moscow (band).
Radio Moscow
Radio Moscow QSL card of 1969
TypeRadio network
Country
Soviet Union
History
Launch date29 October 1929; 95 years ago (29 October 1929)
Closed22 December 1993; 30 years ago (22 December 1993)
Replaced byVoice of Russia
Coverage
AvailabilityInternational

Radio Moscow (Russian: Pадио Москва, romanized: Radio Moskva), also known as Radio Moscow World Service, was the official international broadcasting station of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics until 1993, when it was reorganized into Voice of Russia,[1] which was subsequently reorganized and renamed into Radio Sputnik in 2014.[2] At its peak, Radio Moscow broadcast in over 70 languages using transmitters in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Cuba.

Radio Moscow's interval signal was "Wide Is My Motherland" (Russian: Широка страна моя родная, romanized: Shiroka strana moya rodnaya). Moscow Nights was the station's signature tune since its relaunch as the Radio Moscow World Service in 1978.

  1. ^ "Boris Yeltsin's decree in Russian language" (in Russian). 22 December 1993. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Voice of Russia becomes Sputnik". Voice of Russia. 10 November 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 18 November 2014.