{{Short description|Defunct Russian weekly magazine (1899–2020)}} {{for multi|the diacritic mark|Ogonek|the song|Ogonek (song)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2014}} {{lead too short|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox magazine |title = Ogoniok |image_file = Ogoniok.jpg |image_size = |image_alt = first issue |image_caption = |editor = |editor_title = |previous_editor = |staff_writer = |frequency = Weekly |circulation = |category = |company = Kommersant Publishing Group |publisher = |firstdate =21 December 1899 |lastdate =21 December 2020 |country = Russia |based = Moscow |language = Russian |website = [http://www.kommersant.ru/ogoniok/ Ogoniok] |issn = }} thumb|right|Logotype [[File:EL-LISITZKY-OGONYOK-1.jpg|thumb|right|The print shop of ''Ogonyok'' magazine designed by El Lissitzky]] '''''Ogoniok'''''{{efn|{{lang-rus|Огонёк|Ogonyók|t=Spark|p=ɐɡɐˈnʲɵk|a=Ru-огонёк.ogg}}; pre-reform orthography: {{lang|ru|Огонекъ}}}} was one of the oldest weekly illustrated magazines in Russia.
==History and profile== ''Ogoniok'' was first issued on {{OldStyleDate|21 December|1899|9 December}}<ref name=jukka/><ref>{{cite web|title=Media and Journalism in Russia|url=http://www.sras.org/library_journalism|publisher=SRAS|access-date=22 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170528202107/http://www.sras.org/library_journalism|archive-date=28 May 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> (earlier a magazine with the same name was published in 1879–1883). It ceased to be published in 1918 and was re-established in the Soviet Union in 1923 by Mikhail Koltsov. The headquarters is in Moscow.<ref name="Group2004">{{cite book|title=The Europa World Year: Kazakhstan - Zimbabwe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C&pg=PA3566|access-date=27 July 2016|year=2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-85743-255-8|page=3566}}</ref> In 1957 the circulation of the magazine was 850,000 copies.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Ludmilla B. Turkevich|title=Soviet Literary Periodicals|journal=Books Abroad|date=Autumn 1958|volume=32|issue=4|pages=369–374|jstor=40097964|doi=10.2307/40097964}}</ref>
The colour magazine reached the pinnacle of its popularity in the Perestroika years, when its editor-in-chief Vitaly Korotich "was guiding ''Ogoniok'' to a pro-American and pro-capitalist position".<ref>David M. Kotz, Fred Weir (1997). "[https://books.google.com/books?id=sSJRxA8XMBcC&pg=PA65 Chapter 4: Glasnost and the intelligentsia]". ''Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System''. London: Routledge. p. 65. {{ISBN|0-415-14316-0}}</ref> Those years are the subject matter of the book ''Small Fires: Letters From the Soviet People to Ogonyok Magazine 1987-1990'' (Summit Books, New York, 1990) selected and edited by Christopher Cerf, Marina Albee, and with an introduction by Korotich. The magazine sold 1.5 million copies in 1987 and 4.6 million copies in 1990.<ref name=jukka>{{cite journal|author=Jukka Pietiläinen|title=Media Use in Putin's Russia|journal=Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics|date=2008|volume=24|issue=3|pages=365–385|doi=10.1080/13523270802267906|doi-access=free}}</ref>
In the early 1990s, ''Ogoniok'' was owned by Boris Berezovsky, and its popularity started to decline. It sold 0.2 million copies in 1993.<ref name=jukka/> Viktor Loshak, the former editor of ''Moskovskiye Novosti'', took over as editor in 2003. {{As of|2004}}, it was published by the Russian OVA-PRESS publishing house. At the height of the 2008–2009 Russian financial crisis, in January 2009, the publication was suspended due to an ownership change.<ref>Telen, Lyudmila (25 February 2009). "[http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/Article/1499291.html Закроется ли "Огонек"? ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806140940/http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/article/1499291.html |date=6 August 2012 }}" (in Russian). Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 1 December 2009.</ref>
After a four-month break, publication of ''Ogoniok'' was resumed on 18 May 2009, by Kommersant Publishing Group. The first issue published by ''Kommersant'' is the 5079th ''Ogoniok'' since 1899.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1171029|script-title=ru:Перерыв на обет|language=ru|magazine=Ogoniok, no. 1 (5079)|date=18 May 2009|access-date=19 May 2009}}</ref>
In December 2020, release of ''Ogoniok'' was suspended due to financial problems.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|lang=ru|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4624324|title=Новогодний сюрприз|website=www.kommersant.ru|date=2020-12-21|access-date=2020-12-22}}</ref>
==See also== *List of literary magazines
==Notes== {{Notelist}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commonscatinline}} *{{official website|http://www.kommersant.ru/ogoniok/}} {{in lang|ru}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080822003807/http://ogoniok.ru/ Defunct official website] (archival version) *[http://journal-club.ru/?q=image/tid/371 Archive 1945-1991]
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Category:Magazines established in 1899 Category:Defunct literary magazines published in Russia Category:Defunct Russian-language magazines Category:Literary magazines published in the Soviet Union Category:Weekly magazines published in Russia Category:1899 establishments in the Russian Empire Category:Defunct magazines published in Moscow