BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

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In June 19 RTRN has destroyed MW site in Astrakhan 46 21 10N, 48 04 13E hi
res. 576 RV-50 and 792 RV-35 are perished for ever too. FM and residential
areas are coming.
(Victor Rutkovsky-RUS, dxld July 24)
Ufa, Novosemeykino; Yekaterinburg and Kurovskaya silent?
My earlier notes about the Ufa transmitter sites were in part wrong. Notes
on this topic in Russian can be found here:
The Komintern station operated on longwave only, on both 162 (moved to
this frequency from ex-153 during the nineties) and 198. The dxing.ru page
speculates about 198 being moved to a former jamming site, but of course
this would have to be discussed only in case there is still a signal on
this frequency.
Photos of the Komintern site taken as recently as in last March, including
a mast climb:
Large thread with photos of the still intact site on pages 1 and 2 and
pictures of its demolition on pages 3 and 4:
Yazykovo has mediumwave transmitters instead, the mentioned 693 as well as
another one on 1278. Photos of the site, prominently featuring the
shortwave antennas:
Fascinating stuff: A report about the Novosemeykino site northeast of
Samara, inaugurated in 1942 with 1200 kW (so much for Erching being the
world's largest transmitter when it went on air in 1953). Unfortunately I
get only garbled characters on this page, but the pictures really speak
volumes:
Note the RV-390 transmitter. Earlier it was believed that the more recent
Samara high power LW/MW transmitters were located elsewhere, cf.
but at least without the text it appears that indeed Novosemeykino
remained in use with upgraded equipment. Could it be in fact a VLF site
what had been spotted near Syzran?
gives Novosemeykino as site for both 234 and 873 with 2000 kW each,
mentions a shut-down of this ancient site as recently as in 2005
(apparently in accordance with the feature I can't read) and speculates
about the current site of Radio Rossii on 873, if it is still on air at
all. 234 had been shut down already in the early nineties.
More photos of the Novosemeykino antennas:
Are all of the big shortwave sites in Russia still on air? Until recently
the answer was apparently "yes", but now it looks as if Yekaterinburg went
silent. A few registrations are still included in HFCC, but at least 9610
and 11920 are obviously wood; when checking two days ago after 1900 I
found on 9610 only a preacher in English which turned out to be Family