Radio Orfey (
Russian
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*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: Радио Орфей) ("Radio Orpheus") is a Russian radio station broadcasting
classical music from studios in
Moscow
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. Its programmes – which are broadcast on
FM from transmitters in Moscow (99.2 MHz),
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
(71.66 MHz),
Yekaterinburg
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(69.92 MHz),
Volgograd
Volgograd ( rus, Волгогра́д, a=ru-Volgograd.ogg, p=vəɫɡɐˈɡrat), formerly Tsaritsyn (russian: Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn, label=none; ) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (russian: Сталингра́д, Stalingrád, label=none; ) ...
(71.33 MHz),
Perm
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Places
*Perm, Russia, a city in Russia
** Permsky District, the district
**Perm Krai, a federal subject of Russia since 2005
**Perm Oblast, a former federal subject of Russia 1938–2005
**Perm Governorate, an administra ...
(66.8 MHz),
Lipetsk
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(70.07 MHz),
Tula (71.93 MHz),
Kurgan
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(106 MHz), and
Smolensk
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(104.3 MHz) –
are also streamed on the
Internet
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.
The station, which was created in August 1960, has had various owners throughout its history:
*1960-1991:
All-Union Radio
All-Union Radio () was the radio broadcasting organisation for the USSR under Gosteleradio, operated from 1924 until the dissolution of the USSR. The organization was based in Moscow.
History Beginning
Following the October Revolution control o ...
*1991-1995: State TV and Radio Company "Ostankino"
*1995-2007: the
All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company
*2007–present: the Russian State TV and Radio Music Centre (a self-governing state-owned enterprise)
External links
Radio Orpheus website
{{European Broadcasting Union Members
1960 establishments in Russia
Classical music radio stations
Mass media in Moscow
Radio stations established in 1960
Radio stations in Russia
Radio stations in the Soviet Union