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Moskovskij Komsomolets first appeared on the 11th of December 1919 under the name Yunyi Kommunar. It emerged from the Moscow Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.
Pavel Gusev has held the position of editor-in-chief since 1983. His tenure spans over four decades of continuous leadership at the helm and he remains the longest-serving editor in the publication's modern era.
Autumn 1975 marked the founding of Russia's oldest hit parade known as Zvukovaya Dorozhka by Yu. V. Filonov under the newspaper's banner. The program features both Russian and international musical acts performing on stage and serves as a cultural anchor for the publication beyond its news reporting duties.
On the 16th of March 2013, an article titled Political prostitution has changed gender appeared in the daily edition written by Georgy Yans about three female State Duma deputies from United Russia. That same day deputy Andrey Isayev promised to deal toughly with the authors and seven United Russia deputies requested checks into dubious advertisements within MK.
Current circulation numbers range between 900,000 and 1,980,000 copies per print run. This volume approaches one million readers across the country daily.