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Gazprom-Media
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryMass media
Founded1998
HeadquartersSaint Petersburg, Russia
Key peopleAleksandr Zharov, CEO
Alexey Miller, Chairman
Revenue$126 million[1] (2017)
$9.13 million[1] (Į)
$11 million[1] (2017)
Total assets$75.4 million[1] (2017)
Total equity$24.4 million[1] (2017)
OwnerGazprom
ParentGazprombank
SubsidiariesNTV, NTV Plus, Echo of Moscow, Rutube, Tribuna (Russian newspaper), GPM-Radio
Websitewww.gazprom-media.com

Gazprom-Media (Russian: ОАО Газпром-Медиа) is a Russian media holding company established in January 1998 as a subsidiary of Gazprom Media Holdings.[2] It and its parent company are subsidiaries of Gazprom, a large Russian oil and gas company founded in 1989 that is majority owned by the Federal Government of Russia which owns a 50.23% controlling stake in Gazprom.[3][4] The group owns more than 38 television channels and 10 radio stations.

History

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In 2000, under pressure from Mikhail Lesin, Gazprom-Media acquired NTV, the only nationwide television channel independent of the government at the time, as well as other media assets of Vladimir Gusinsky's Media Most [ru] group – including the satellite operator NTV Plus, TNT, the radio station Echo of Moscow, and the Seven Days [ru] publishing house – which resulted in major controversy and considerable changes to the channel's editorial policy.[4][5][6][7]

After taking over Media Most in 2000, Gazprom-Media received assets and personnel from Filipp Bobkov's dissolved Fifth Chief Directorate of the KGB,[a] including its thousands of employees, its database, and the security service founded by Bobkov that had been accused of attempting to assassinate Boris Berezovsky in 1994.[8][9] The directorate's entire archive had been taken to Media Most.[10] In 2000, Bobkov created the Institute of Strategic Studies and Analysis (ISSA), a joint stock company. It was led by Vaqif Hüseynov [ru], the former head of the KGB in Azerbaijan, and operated as a think tank and successor to Media Most's security department. Vladimir Zhizhin [ru] chaired the ISSA's board of directors from 2001 to 2002.[11][12][b]

In 2005, Gazprom-Media purchased Izvestia, a national daily newspaper.[4] In May 2008, the National Media Group bought a 50.19% stake in Izvestia from Gazprom-Media.[14][c]

In August 2005, Gazprom-Media Holdings was sold to Gazprombank for 37.22 billion rubles. In 2012, Gazprombank's ownership was split between Gazprom with a 41.73% stake and NPF Gazfond with a 46.92% stake.[4][2][16] Most of Gazfond's stake was managed by the financial company Lider [ru]. As a part of the SOGAZ insurance company, Lider had been controlled by Rossiya Bank, whose largest shareholder was Yuri Kovalchuk, an associate of Vladimir Putin.[2][16][17] In March 2014, Rossiya Bank sold its indirect control of Lider to Gazfond, which now owns a 45% stake in Lider.[16] Since 2003, Gazfond's president has been Yuri Shamalov, who is also the deputy chairman of Gazprombank.[18][16]

Media assets

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Television

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GPM-Radio

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GPM Radio (Gazprom-Media Radio) is Russia's largest private radio group. Tthe company operates a vast network of nationwide stations that collectively reach an audience of over 39 million listeners per month. The Radio company is managed operationally by Vadim Tereshchuk (General Director) and Yuri Kostin (President).[19]

GPM Radio brings together nine distinct radio brands that cover almost all key target audiences in the Russian market:[19]

  • AvtoRadio, the flagship station
  • Radio Energy NRG, started as Franchise of France based NRJ group, Gazprom canceled the connection. The station is proramming club, dance and chart-music.
  • Yumor FM, a program which mixes pop-music with jokes.
  • Comedy Radio
  • Detskoe Radio, nationwide children-program
  • Like FM
  • Relax FM, ambient-music
  • Radio Romantika (Moscow 98.8 FM, formerly nationwide), aiming womean with soft-pop
  • Radio Zenit (Saint Petersburg 89.7 FM, joint venture with FC Zenit, which is also sponsored by Gazprom)

Paper publications

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  • Seven Days Publishing House[20]
    • Seven Days (TV guide)[20][21]
    • Story Caravan (monthly magazine)
    • Story Caravan Collection (monthly magazine)

Internet

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  • Rutube
  • Вокруг ТВ
    • SRSLY
  • Sportbox.ru
  • УМА-ТЕХ
  • Premier
  • Getintent
  • 2x2.Медиа

Movie and cinema

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Directors general

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  • Viktor Ilyushin (December 1997 – June 1998)
  • Sergey Zverev (June 1998 – May 1999)
  • Alexander Astafyev (1999 – 2000)
  • Alfred Kokh (June 2000 – October 2001)
  • Boris Jordan (October 2001 – January 2003)
  • Alexander Dybal (January 2003 – June 2004)
  • Nikolay Senkevich (since July 2004)
  • Aleksandr Zharov (since March 2020)

Board of directors

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Management

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Source:[23]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ↑ The Fifth Chief Directorate was responsible for disinformation, control of dissidents, religious groups, and executions.
  2. ↑ Zhinzhin was close to Arne Treholt.[13]
  3. ↑ National Media Group was founded in February 2008. Investors include Severstal with a 26% stake as of 2009, Rossiya Bank with a 35.5% stake at the end of 2012, SOGAZ with a 21.22% stake as of 2015, and Surgutneftegas with a 23.98% stake as of 30 March 2016.[citation needed] Since 2014, the National Media Group has been chaired by Alina Kabaeva, who has a strong relationship with Vladimir Putin.[15]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Бухгалтерская отчётность". Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Как создавался и развивался "Газпром-медиа холдинг": Досье" [How Gazprom-Media Holding was created and developed: Dossier]. Kommersant (in Russian). 15 February 2012. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  3. ↑ Цвик, В. (Tsvik, V.); Качкаева, А. (Kachkaeva, A.). "Реформы в обществе и на телевидении" [Reforms in society and on television]. tvmuseum.ru website (in Russian). Archived from the original on 11 November 2007. Retrieved 20 February 2021. See section Телевидение, власть и капитал (Television, power and capital) on page 5.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Газпром" [Gazprom]. Lenta.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  5. ↑ Общество: "Газпром" может стать хозяином "Медиа-Моста" к середине 2001 года [Gazprom can become the owner of Media-Most by mid-2001] (in Russian). Lenta.ru. November 13, 2000. Archived from the original on May 9, 2018. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ Сурганова, Елизавета (Surganova, Elizaveta); Соболев, Сергей (Sobolev, Sergei); Русяева, Полина (Rusyaeva, Paulina) (7 November 2015). ""Я все могу": чем запомнился бывший министр печати Михаил Лесин: Скончался бывший министр печати и до недавнего времени — один из самых влиятельных людей российского медиарынка Михаил Лесин" ["I can do anything": what is the memory of the former Minister of the Press Mikhail Lesin: Former press minister and, until recently, one of the most influential people on the Russian media market, Mikhail Lesin, has passed away]. RBC (РБК) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ "Медиа-Мост: История" [Media Most: History]. Медиа-Мост (mediamost.ru) (in Russian). August 2000. Archived from the original on 18 August 2000. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  8. ↑ Ideologist for all times Archived 2005-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, by Felix Shemedlovsky, (in Russian) Vedomosti
  9. ↑ Григорьев, Андрей (Grigoriev, Andrei) (28 March 2000). Аполитичный Гусинский[link removed]. Apolitical Gusinsky. (in Russian). «Компания» — деловой еженедельник (Company). Archived from the original on 12 February 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  10. ↑ Ideologist for all times Archived 2005-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, by Felix Shemedlovsky, (in Russian) Vedomosti, A slightly different version Archived 2025-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ "Записки бывшего подполковника КГБ: Секретная служба "телекиллера" Доренко. В этой части Попов пишет об исследовательских институтах, работавших на КГБ, гибели экс-мэра Санкт-Петербурга Анатолия Собчака и роли спецслужб в судьбе телеведущего Сергея Доренко" [Notes of Former KGB Lieutenant Colonel: Secret Service of "Telekiller" Dorenko. In this part, Popov writes about research institutes working for the KGB, the death of the ex-mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak and the role of the special services in the fate of TV anchor Sergei Dorenko.]. Gordonua (in Russian). 20 May 2020. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  12. ↑ "Гусейнов Вагиф Алиовсатович" [Huseynov Vagif Aliovsat]. viperson.ru (in Russian). 15 May 2003. Retrieved 20 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  13. ↑ Смирнов, Алексей (Smirnov, Alexey) (24 September 2010). "ндал, шитый клейкой лентой" [Scandel sewn with duct tape]. Novye Izvestia (in Russian). Retrieved 20 February 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ "«Национальная Медиа Группа» консолидировала крупнейший пакет акций «Редакции газеты «Известия»". Mergers.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 13 August 2025. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  15. ↑ Рождественский, Илья (Rozhdestvensky, Ilya) (19 November 2019). "Стоимость недвижимости семьи Кабаевой достигла 1,25 млрд рублей. Как получены дома и при чем тут "Газпром"" [The value of the real estate of the Kabaeva family has reached 1.25 billion rubles. How did you get at home and what does Gazprom have to do with it?]. «Открытые медиа» (in Russian). Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. 1 2 3 4 Grey, Stephen; Bergin, Tom; Musaieva, Sevgil; Anin, Roman (26 November 2014). Woods, Richard (ed.). "Comrade Capitalism the Kiev Connection: Sidebar Graphic Gazprombank". Reuters. Moscow/Kyiv. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  17. ↑ Belton, Catherine (30 November 2011). "How Gazprom lost control of Gazprombank". Financial Times. Retrieved 20 February 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  18. ↑ "Yuri Shamalov: President, Npf Gazfond". Bloomberg News. Retrieved February 20, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  19. 1 2 https://tadviser.com/index.php/Company:Gazprom-Media_Holding_(GPMKh)
  20. 1 2 "7Дней.ру - Новости, интервью, фото и видео звезд". 7Дней.ру. Archived from the original on December 24, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  21. ↑ 7 Days: The Russian Oracle, 7 April 2010 Archived 30 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine.Accessed: 5 December 2010.
  22. ↑ "Gazprom-Media Holding Leadership". gazprom-media.com. Archived from the original on 2021-09-08. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  23. ↑ "Leadership". Archived from the original on 2018-05-17. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
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