Muzykalnaya Gazeta

Muzykalnaya Gazeta was a Belarusian weekly newspaper covered music and show business.^[1]

Muzykalnaya Gazeta

Type	Weekly newspaper
Publisher	Publishing house “Nestor”
Founded	1996 (1996)
Language	Russian
Ceased publication	2008 (2008)
Headquarters	Minsk
Country	Belarus
Circulation	20000 – 1500
Free online archives	http://www.nestor.minsk.by/mg/
Media of Belarus List of newspapers

History

It was founded in Minsk by publisher Anatoĺ Kiriuškin (Publishing house ”Nestor“) in 1996. The newspaper came out once a week initially, later on once every two weeks, in Russian, and was distributed across the territory of the Republic of Belarus, as well as through private distributors in the markets of Ukraine and Russia.^[2] In different years, the circulation ranged from 7,000 to 19,500 copies, then it fell sharply and continued to decline in subsequent years, while the last issue was published in December 2007 with a circulation of 2,514 copies.^[3]

By 2003, the newspaper was published in color and informed on the West and the Belarusian and Russian music scenes. Since 2003, the newspaper began to write only on topics of Belarusian music (Western music coverage migrated into the new magazine “НОТ-7”), changed the design, and switched to 8 pages (instead of 16) in black and white.^[4][5]

Almost from the very beginning, the chief editor was Oleg “О’К” Klimov, a famous Belarusian music journalist.^[6][7][8] During its existence, the newspaper has become a landmark publication for Belarusian music lovers^[9][10] and was a success in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, mainly due to the large number of published materials and the high (in its early years) quality of publications.^[4][11]

Due to financial reasons, the newspaper ceased to exist on the eve of 2008.^[12][13][14]

References

1. Н. Сушкевич (2005). "Белорусская музыка в глобальном пространстве Интернет" [Belarusian music in the global space of the Internet] (PDF) (in Russian) (10) (Музыка и глобализация культуры / Научные труды Белорусской государственной академии музыки ed.). Minsk: Belarusian State Academy of Music: 23–36. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-11-13. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
2. "Музыкальная Газета N 28/2005 (Минск, Беларусь)" [Muzykalnaya Gazeta #28/2005 (Minsk, Belarus)] (in Russian). music.com.ua. 2005-07-27. Archived from the original on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
3. Трохин, Константин (2008-01-04). "Газет все меньше?" [Are there less and less newspapers?] (in Russian). BelaPAN. Archived from the original on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
4. Замировская, Татьяна (2008). "В истории "МГ" не было ошибок" [There were no mistakes in the history of “MG”]. BelGazeta (in Russian). 3 (624). Archived from the original on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
5. Коровайко, Андрей; Памедор Реуцкий, Ян (2012-03-27). "Белорусская "Музыкальная газета" так и не переросла статус "интернета на бумаге"" [Belarusian “Muzykalnaya Gazeta” newer outgrew the status of “Internet on paper”] (in Russian). TUT.BY. Archived from the original on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
6. ""За месяц до релиза прислали "OK Computer"". Читатели и создатели вспоминают "Музыкальную газету"" [«A month before the release, they sent “OK Computer.” ”Readers and creators recall the “Muzykalnaya Gazeta”»] (in Russian). citydog.by. 2016-03-10. Archived from the original on 2019-05-18. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
7. Kaidanovsky, Igor (2017-01-05). ""Хроники «Нестора". Анонс книги!" [“The Chronicles of Nestor.” The announcement of the book!] (in Russian). Шакал.Тудэй. Archived from the original on 2019-05-18. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
8. Климов, Олег (2010-11-08). "Олег Климов: "Угадай мелодию"" [Oleg Klimov: “Guess the melody”]. Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya (in Russian). Experty.by. Archived from the original on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
9. Ружечка, Александр; Самусик, Ольга (2009-07-09). "Сила печатного слова" [The power of the printed word] (in Russian). Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya. Archived from the original on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
10. Шаблонов, Игорь (2013-11-13). "Десять музыкальных мемов Беларуси" [Ten musical memes of Belarus] (in Russian). Ultra-Music. Archived from the original on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
11. ocherkistka; Тарналицкий, Максим (2009-11-18). "Сайт LiveSound закрыт" [The LiveSound site has been closed] (in Russian). another.by. Archived from the original on 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
12. Карпицкая, Катерина (2011). "Пациент скорее мёртв, чем жив" [The patient is more likely dead than alive] (PDF). Read Me (in Russian). 2 (2): 28–30. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
13. Ляшкевіч, Алена (2018-03-27). "Калі ўмееш пісаць, напішаш пра што заўгодна" (in Belarusian). Novy Chas. Archived from the original on 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
14. Mass-media in Belarus: 2008 (Annual Report) (PDF). Minsk: Belarusian Association of Journalists. 2009. p. 38. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-03-03. Retrieved 2020-03-03.