History and profile
Za Rulem was founded on 23 February 1928, and the first issue was published in April 1928.
Quote from the first issue :
We hope that our readers will not only narrow circles of specialists, but the broad masses of the working people, for the first time introduces the ideas of motorization. Our magazine is the first and only experience of mass edition of the popular magazine devoted to cars and roads
The circulation of the magazine in 1972 was 2.1 mln copies. In 1978, the magazine was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
The following artists performed design work for the magazine: Boris Efimov and Alexander Zakharov (1976-1988). Vladimir Mayakovsky also worked for the magazine.
During Soviet times, the magazine was a 30-leaf notebook of simple matte paper, but in the 1990s, they began to add more pages. In May 2008, the magazine updated the typeface of the logo, the old style of the journal logo having been used since the 1970s.
Za Rulem is published by a publishing company of the same name on a monthly basis. In August 2009, the publisher created a new website. Since January 2010 the editor in chief has been Anton Chuykin (previously Peter Menshikh was in the post).
460,500 copies of Za Rulem were circulating during the period of 2010-2011, making it the sixth best-selling European automobile magazine.
