Orest Kostiv
Historian, guide lecturer at the National Museum of History of Ukraine. Research interests: history of late Soviet Ukraine, cultural and social history, history of everyday life, memory politics and historical policies, urban history, history of radio broadcasting.
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Directorate of Foreign Broadcasting of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting on the Secrecy Regime and Work with Foreigners, 1977
This report, delivered by Leonid Avksentiev, editor-in-chief of the Main Directorate of Radio Broadcasting to Foreign Countries (Directorate of Foreign Broadcasting) under the Ukrainian SSR State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, was presented at the Directorate’s general party meeting in August 1977. The document is held at the Central State Archive of Public Associations and Ukrainian Studies (ЦДАГОУ) in Kyiv. The Directorate of Foreign Broadcasting of the Ukrainian SSR State TV and Radio Broadcasting managed Radio Kyiv, the Ukrainian Soviet broadcasting station that operated on shortwave radio, primarily aimed at Europe and North America, from 1950 to 1991. As part of the broader network of Soviet international broadcasting, Radio Kyiv focused on...
Ministry of Communications of the Ukrainian SSR on Jamming Foreign Radio Stations in the Republic, 1982
This document is a report from Heorhii Sinchenko, Minister of Communications of the Ukrainian SSR, to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine on the subject of “counteracting anti-Soviet radio broadcasting.” The report includes a list of shortwave radio stations targeted for jamming and provides an overview of the relevant infrastructure in 1982. In addition to Western stations such as Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, the BBC, Deutsche Welle, South Korea’s Radio Korea, and the Voice of Israel, broadcasters from socialist countries with strained relations with the USSR—like Albania’s Radio Tirana and China’s Radio Beijing—were also jammed. In total, 37 "anti-Soviet" radio stations broadcast into Soviet Ukraine. During the early 1980s, as...