16 1962 October, the
The first call signs of the radio station "Youth" were heard in the USSR.
The melody of the call sign was chosen to match the era of the romantic sixties - "Song of an Anxious Youth" by Pakhmutova.
And snow, and wind, and the night flight of stars
My heart calls me to the anxious distance
The first youth program on All-Union Radio aired back in 1957. It was a report from the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. The festival's 13-person editorial team became the backbone of the new department at Gosteleradio.
The first episode of "Yunost" took four months to prepare: out of 40 pilot programs, only one was aired. It consisted of several sections: the Komsomol chronicle "Steps of a Generation," a journalistic dialogue "Protect Your Honor from a Young Age" based on listener letters, "Stories about Your Comrades" featuring radio novellas, a collection of funny news stories "That's Interesting," and a competition for the best professional story "The Cause You Serve."
The program was a hit—it offered such diversity and lively interactions as never before. At the end, a call to radio listeners was made:
Let's think about Yunost's programs together. After all, we are the owners of the new radio station.
Gradually, broadcasts "from the wheel" became the show's calling card—the censors were forced to allow them (because they couldn't keep up). Thus, "Yunost" became the forerunner of live radio broadcasts.
It broadcast more than 90 hours a month on the airwaves of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, but did not have its own airwave.
She organized radio bridges and radio roll calls, broadcasting the voices of worker and military correspondents from army units, and bard songs. Morning programs featured songs by Nautilus, Alisa, Kino, and foreign music. On Yunost, they began Vizbor, Pugacheva, Tukhmanov, Talkov.
Everything that wasn't spoken live into a microphone was played from reel-to-reel tape recorders: there were occasional bloopers and reports played backwards. Editors eagerly scooped up rare records at flea markets, from which they copied the music onto reels and broadcast it.
(Nikolai Fandeev)
During perestroika and the 90s, programs were broadcast on different stations.
In 2008, it became part of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) as "UFM." Its broadcasts are now available on the website of the same name.
