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Russkoye Radio began broadcasting in Moscow on the 2nd of August 1995. During its initial summer test phase the station aired music-only programming from 08:00 to 22:00 without jingles, and commercial advertising was not introduced until 1996.
The Golden Gramophone is a folk music award established by Russkoye Radio in 1996. The ceremony takes place at the end of each year and has been held at venues including the State Kremlin Palace, Olimpiysky Arena, Crocus City Hall, and VTB Arena in Moscow, with parallel events at Saint Petersburg's Ice Palace and the Minsk Arena in Belarus.
Russkoye Radio set a Guinness World Record on the 22nd of September 2010 for a fifty-two-hour non-stop show called Russkie Pertsy. A second record followed on the 3rd of April 2015 for the longest team radio show, clocking in at sixty hours.
On the 26th of June 2014, program director Roman Yemelyanov terminated the partnership with Russkoye Radio - Ukraine after the Ukrainian branch donated 250,000 hryvnias (ten percent of its ad revenue) to the Kyiv Rus territorial defense battalion. Yemelyanov said the campaign, titled Protect the Army - It Will Protect You, exploited the station's "Russian" name against its branding.
Russkoye Radio Ukraina stopped broadcasting in February 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It had operated in Ukraine since 2001 and was replaced by a new station called Radio Bayraktar.
Russkoye Radio offers several themed channels including Vysotsky (music of Vladimir Vysotsky), Russky Rok (Russian rock), Bessmertny Polk (wartime songs), Hip-Hop, Detsky (children's music and stories), and a Skazki fairytales channel. Two online streams launched in 2012: Russkoye Kino for Soviet and Russian film soundtracks, and a Golden Gramophone stream for award-winning hits.