Za Rulem
Russian automotive magazine
Za Rulem (Russian: Behind the steering wheel) is a popular Russian monthly magazine about cars and the automotive industry. Before 1989, it was the only automobile periodical in the USSR, designed for a wide readership. By the end of 1980 the magazine's circulation reached 4.5 million copies.
History and profile
Za Rulem was founded on 23 February 1928, and the first issue was published in April 1928.
Quote from the first issue :
We hope that our readers will not only narrow circles of specialists, but the broad masses of the working people, for the first time introduces the ideas of motorization. Our magazine is the first and only experience of mass edition of the popular magazine devoted to cars and roads
The circulation of the magazine in 1972 was 2.1 mln copies. In 1978, the magazine was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
The following artists performed design work for the magazine: Boris Efimov and Alexander Zakharov (1976-1988). Vladimir Mayakovsky also worked for the magazine.
During Soviet times, the magazine was a 30-leaf notebook of simple matte paper, but in the 1990s, they began to add more pages.
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