Best Amateur Radio Hub in Ivanovo: Stitching Signals in Russia’s Textile Capital
In Ivanovo, long known as Russia’s textile heartland, another kind of weaving takes place — not of fabric, but of voices, callsigns, and invisible threads of radio waves. The Ivanovo branch of the ...
Best Amateur Radio Hub in Kostroma: Signals Over the Volga
Kostroma, a city where the Volga bends wide and history runs deep, is better known for its monasteries and textile heritage than for high-frequency chatter. Yet, behind an unassuming address on Pro...
Amateur Radio in Kursk: Signals from the Heart of Black Earth
Kursk, famed for its fertile black earth and storied wartime history, is also home to a quieter kind of strategic network — the Kursk branch of the Union of Radio Amateurs of Russia (СРР). From a m...
Lipetsk: Steel, Signals, and Steadfast Connections
In the industrial heart of western Russia, Lipetsk is better known for its steel mills than for its radio traffic. Yet, every evening at 21:00 local time, a clear voice cuts through the ether on 14...
Moscow: The Capital’s Call Sign
In the sprawl of Moscow, where digital networks hum and fibre optics pulse beneath the pavements, one might imagine amateur radio to be a quaint relic. Yet behind the brick walls at Novotetërki Str...
Best of Moscow Region: A Constellation Beyond the Capital
Moscow’s political centre is well known; less familiar is the intricate web of amateur radio life that surrounds it. The Moscow Regional Branch of the Union of Radio Amateurs of Russia serves as th...
Best of Oryol: Small Circuits, Strong Signals
On paper, the Oryol Regional Branch of the Union of Radio Amateurs of Russia looks modest: a compact council, no fixed “round table” schedule, and activities coordinated largely by prior arrangemen...
Ryazan on the Air: Order in the Ether
Some regional branches of the Union of Radio Amateurs of Russia thrive on informality; Ryazan’s thrives on structure. From daily VHF round tables to Sunday HF check-ins, this is a community that ke...
Best of Smolensk: Discipline on the Dnieper
Smolensk, a city better known for its medieval kremlin and its role as a gateway between Moscow and Europe, is also home to one of Russia’s more structured amateur radio branches. The regional divi...
Best of Tambov: Signals from the Sugar Beet Capital
Tambov, better known for its fields of sugar beets and its role in Russia’s agricultural heartland, is also home to a disciplined amateur radio outpost. The regional division of the Union of Radio ...
Tver on the Air: Steady Signals from the Upper Volga
Tver, perched between Moscow and St. Petersburg on the banks of the Volga, is a city used to being a waypoint. Its regional branch of the Union of Radio Amateurs of Russia mirrors that role — a lin...
Tula: Forging Signals in a City of Arms and Airwaves
Tula, long famed for its armories and samovars, has another craft it tends with equal care — amateur radio. The regional branch of the Union of Radio Amateurs of Russia (SRR) here operates with the...
Yaroslavl: A Network Across the Volga
The Yaroslavl branch of the Union of Radio Amateurs of Russia (SRR) is not a single club, but an archipelago of stations, committees, and meeting halls scattered from the regional capital to the Vo...
Astrakhan: Radio on the Edge of the Caspian
At the southern fringe of European Russia, where the Volga fans into the Caspian Sea, the Astrakhan branch of the Union of Radio Amateurs of Russia keeps its aerials pointed both inland and out to ...
Volgograd: Signals Along the Volga Bend
In Volgograd, a city whose name still resonates from its wartime past, the airwaves carry a quieter but no less enduring signal. The Volgograd Regional Branch of the Union of Radio Amateurs of Russ...