Computerra

Computerra

Computerra #706 cover
Editor-in-Chief	Vladislav Biryukov
Categories	Computer magazine
Frequency	Weekly and online (before December 15, 2009); online-only (after December 15, 2009)
Circulation	64,000 / week (December 2009)
Publisher	C&C Computer Publishing Limited
First issue	December 21, 1992
Final issue — Number	December 15, 2009 #47-48 (811-812)
Company	C&C Computer Publishing Limited
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Website	offline.computerra.ru
ISSN	1815-2198

Computerra (Russian: Компьюте́рра) was a Russian computer weekly publication. The first edition was released on December 21, 1992 and was published by C&C Computer Publishing Limited (Computerra Publishing House). Later, it received the online counterpart at [www.computerra.ru], which supplements the contents of the publication; due to the financial problems and lack of advertisement material, the issue 811-812 on December 15, 2009 was announced as the last issue to be published offline, with only the online version remaining active. The last issue cover lacks a usual cover image, with only the black rectangle instead and the words roughly translatable as "now you can shut down your computerra", as a pun on the shutdown image of Windows 95.

Founder was Dmitriy Mendrelyuk. There are some other magazines founded by him like Business-Journal (Russian: Би́знес-Журна́л).

The typical audience of Computerra magazine includes the working men 25–34 years old, who have high social status, high or medium income level, and use computers.^[1]

The difference of "Computerra" from the most of other computer magazines is that this magazine not only writes about computer hardware and software, but writes philosophical thoughts about life, "computer people" life above all.

Alexa.com traffic rank for Computerra.ru official website is 21,98 as of March 2008^[update].^[2]

Editorial staff (as of January 2007)

The editors

• Editor-in-chief (acting) - Vladislav Buryukov
• Senior editors - Sergey Leonov, Sergey Vilianov, Leonid Levkovich-Maslyuk, Vladimir Guriev
• Coordinator - Irina Voronovich
• Editors - Rodion Nasakin, Ilya Schurov, Constantine Kurbatov
• Style editor - Aleksandr Shevchenko
• Proof-reader - Julia Sleptsova

News department

• Head of department - Artem Zakharov
• Observers - Galaktion Andreev, Timophey Bakhvalov, Aleksandr Bumagin, Stanislav Gobunov, Denis Zenkin, Eugeny Zolotov, Denis Konovalchik, Sergey Kirienko, Igor Kuksov, Aleksey Levin, Ivan Prohorov, Michael Sannikov, Andrey Harlanov, Dmitriy Shabanov, Viktor Shepelev

Design department

• Art director - Oleg Dmitriev
• Designers - Nikolay Velikanov
• Cover designer - Viktor Zhizhin
• Artist - Alexey Bondarev
• Photographer - Lena Belousova

Technical support

• Head of department - Vadim Gubin

Advertising

• Head of department - Elena Chernobaeva
• Senior manager - Irina Shemlakina
• Managers - Marina Timofeeva, Anastasia Vlasenko

History

Editors-in-chief:

• Georgiy Kuznetsov (1995—1998)
• Eugene Kozlovsky (1998—2004)
• Sergey Leonov (2004–2006)
• Dmitriy Mendrelyuk (temporary in 2006)
• Vladimir Guriev 2007-2008
• Vladislav Biryukov

Memorable publications:

• In the paired issue #31—32 (555—556, August 31, 2004) a big article about Wikipedia written by Stanislav Kozlovskiy was published «How to be a Voltaire, or The most free encyclopedia» (Russian).

References

1. ^ Gallup Media (March – July 2006). ""Computerra" audience" (in Russian). Computerra. http://www.computerra.ru/about/offline3.html. Retrieved 2008-12-01. 
2. ^ Computerra.ru traffic rank at Alexa.com

External links

• Computerra website (Russian)
• Computerra Inside (Russian) - editorial blog