Learn the main thing. Livejournal. Alexey Yablokov: “I don’t have any special relationship with the Internet”

On the night of June 3-4, 2010, there was a short-term glitch in the operation of LiveJournal.com, noticeable only to Russian-speaking users.

Bloggers pointed out the strange coincidence of the names of suicide bombers
The full namesake of Maryam Sharipova, who staged a terrorist attack in the capital’s metro, blew herself up in Tushino at a rock festival in 2003.

Bloggers warn
The Federal Medical and Biological Agency is preparing a program for closing blood transfusion departments at hospitals.

Bloggers will choose “National bestseller - 2009”
In 2009, the All-Russian literary award “National Bestseller” begins cooperation with the Internet resource Livejournal.com.

Olga Bakushinskaya

LiveJournal in Russia - more than LiveJournal

Five ways to become a famous blogger

The more a person reads you, the easier it is to create the illusion within yourself that you are not alone and someone needs you. I can understand people who have been busy for years with only one thing - acquiring readers in any way.

Eva Rapoport

LJ as a tool of social justice

What does it mean to be a thousandaire

An Internet blog that has many or very many readers is an independent media outlet independent of anyone, an instrument of social justice, and anything else (not excluding the possibility of earning a significant amount of money).

Arthur Welf

Live VKontakte

What will happen to LiveJournal if Pavel Durov takes over it?

In comments on Roem.ru, Pavel Durov offered to sell him LJ so that he could “revive the legendary resource.” I tried to imagine what LiveJournal would look like if its management was transferred to the founder of VKontakte.

Anton Nosik

LJ strikes back

Rumors about LiveJournal's death have not yet been confirmed

LiveJournal has been buried for a long time. Lately - with special pathos associated with the sharp growth of social networks, in particular Facebook. The founder of VKontakte, Pavel Durov, even offered to help the “dying” person. On LiveJournal and Facebook, the latest “funeral” of LiveJournal sparked an active discussion. Longtime LiveJournal resident Anton Nosik and Facebook apologist Arthur Welf spoke out on this issue. “Private correspondent” decided to figure out what is happening with social networks.

Sergey Taranov

Drugoi vs. Interfax

The victory of a blogger over a journalist in a single hydroelectric power station

So the long-awaited conflict of the modern era was born. Blogging and professional journalism, which previously existed parallel to each other, came face to face at one time and in one place - at the dismantling of the rubble of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station. According to Interfax, the Russian “number one blogger” - drugoi, also the head of the multimedia blogging department of the SUP company Rustem Adagamov, survived from the scene of the events of the correspondent of the respected Interfax agency Dmitry Afonin.

Anton Merkurov

Blogger Mikhail Kovalev, unable to tolerate the regular appearance of uncensored language in blogger Artemy Lebedev’s diary, wrote a statement to the Russian prosecutor’s office, the purpose of which is to prohibit the use of invective language throughout the American portal Livejournal.com. The blogger cares about the moral health of Mr. Lebedev personally, as well as all his subscribers, and indeed all Internet users. The blogger cannot sleep peacefully and cannot understand that a blog is, in general, a kitchen. And Mr. Lebedev does not owe anything to anyone.

Svetlana Ivannikova: “You can achieve a lot in LiveJournal with one word”

What will change at LiveJournal Russia under the new leadership

Last week it became known that there had been personnel changes in the SUP company, which owns LiveJournal and Gazeta.Ru. Svetlana Ivannikova, who previously headed the marketing department, has been appointed the new head of LiveJournal Russia. Svetlana graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University several years ago and wrote a diploma on LJ, which was read by both teachers and students.

Alexey Yablokov: “I don’t have any special relationship with the Internet”

Alexey Yablokov gave an interview to Chaskor

The new chief editor of the magazine “Smena” about consumers and creators, a year and a half of idleness and the benefits of it, blogs and LJ glavred, the village “Paradise” and people who fell out of the business plan, universal values ​​and New Year’s garlands.

Cheap life - smart life

The practice of reasonable consumption in one experiment

Several friends decided to try to spend wisely for four weeks and write about it on LiveJournal. Their experience turned out to be so interesting that more than 700 readers are already following the community. Maybe this is what we all lack in a consumerist society?

Vasily Esmanov: “The only way to entertain yourself is to do something yourself”

On July 9, the ceremony of presenting the IX National Award “Media Manager of Russia - 2009”, one of the main domestic awards in the field of media business, took place. The winner of the award in the “New Media” category, by unanimous decision of the jury, was Vasily Esmanov, the 25-year-old creator of the youth web project Look At Me, “For the creation of the only media youth Internet in Russia.”

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Apparently it’s worth describing at least once what LiveJournal is for those who have never encountered it. Many who are not part of the LiveJournal community for a long time cannot understand what it is - LiveJournal? Why him? Who runs it and how does it all work? When someone asks me, I start to explain every time, but then I get confused, get carried away by the details and go off into other steppes. In my opinion, all these confusing explanations need to be somehow streamlined and laid out so that beginners have something to start with.

So, what is LiveJournal, aka LJ, aka LiveJournal, aka LJ?

LJ is a unique online community of people who love to think. These people think often and a lot. In the process of thinking about various life phenomena, they develop emotions, opinions, conclusions, ideas and much more. It is quite possible to put some of this endlessly and unceasingly born flow into words. People don’t want to keep some of these words to themselves. Some of what they don't want to keep to themselves, they want to record somewhere where it will be stored. Also, for example, how a Mesozoic mosquito is stored in an amber drop for millions of years, and is stored until surprised scientists find it in Egypt and pick it out with thin needles in order to recreate exactly the same mosquito from the DNA preserved in its tissues in our time. the time to breed it is now in our time, so that new mosquitoes will re-arrange here what killed the old mosquito millions of years ago. Perhaps I’ll write about this on LiveJournal, but we’re a little distracted. However, we will consider this an illustration of those very thoughts recorded on paper. Go ahead.

So, we have some thoughts that, due to congenital sclerosis or due to the ambitious desire to capture our thoughts for centuries, we want to write down somewhere. Theoretically, our brilliant thoughts can be written down in a paper notebook and put in the nightstand. This option has its advantages and many people do it. But even these crazy people clearly understand that sooner or later mom will throw this diary in the trash, grandma will give it to grandpa to read, and dad might even use it to roll cigarettes. In addition, paper is short-lived. What is the point of keeping a diary if he is destined to die sooner or later? Have you seen many diaries kept by young ladies in the 19th century? Almost all of them disappeared in the mists of time.

Therefore, after the Internet was invented, after some time the unforgettable Brad Fitzpatrick thought: “Why not keep and store a diary on the Internet?” And he immediately registered the site and began programming the engine of this site. Just like that, a brilliant idea was born. He decided to call his website Live Journal and, accordingly, registered it at www.livejournal.com. With this site, people could save their thoughts for a little longer than a year or two. For example, this entry was made in 2002 and slightly corrected in 2010. That is, it has been stored for 8 years, and the paper diaries of those times have become quite yellowed.

By the way, this is another advantage of an online diary - you can correct your entries. Moreover, this is done a little easier than scratching with a razor the phrase on paper “Mashka is such a fool!”, and then writing on top of it “I was a fool, but Masha is cool!”

And so a community appeared, consisting at first of just a few diaries, then of several dozen, then hundreds, then thousands. Today there are millions of diaries on LiveJournal, kept by people of all nationalities and religions.

Why is the diary “Alive” you ask in bewilderment?

Well, that's a reasonable question. Imagine that each of the millions of writers who run their own magazines every second shares their joys, sorrows, revelations and secret fantasies with the outside world. Moreover, the exchange of thoughts is really similar to a living organism. Each of us not only keeps his own journal, but also reads other people's journals. Isn't it a joy to see what your friend or neighbor wrote today or yesterday? Moreover, on LiveJournal you can not only look at a friend’s journal, but also spy on a stranger’s journal. Depending on the wishes of the owner of the diary, you may or may not be able to read his diary. If the owner allows (there is such an option in the settings) all strangers to read his diary, you can easily open his journal and not only read all his thoughts over the last 10 years, but also easily respond to any entry.

Let's say you went to the journal of your friend or classmate. And he, for example, on Monday morning already managed to write: “Eh, it would be nice to have beer today!” You answer him right in his journal and right under this entry: “You are an alcoholic, Vasily Apollinarievich!” Here, of course, he quits work and tells you under your answer everything that he thinks about you and about all your hobbies, including marijuana, higher mathematics, building anthills and writing hymns. Then you answer him, and he answers you again. This is how the conversation goes. Conversations go on for many pages and for many years. The comments on this post are also a conversation. If you scroll down this page - you'll see that it's been going on for eight years - there's a date and time next to each answer.

Replies to posts are called “comments” or, more simply, “comments”. Both the post itself and the comments on it are seen by everyone you allow - you, your friends, or even strangers who just dropped in for a glimpse. All of them can answer any of you at any time or simply on the sidelines - in their own or someone else's diary - write something about both of you.

In each entry and in each answer, you can insert not only text, but also links to sites, pictures, videos, music files and anything else you want. The diaries - or, otherwise, blogs - of popularly famous personalities, for example, Artemy Lebedev (tema.livejournal.com) or Anton Nosik (dolboeb.livejournal.com), are dotted with thousands of comments from zhezhists of all stripes and options - from the most enthusiastic to angry - three-story. All this is quite common for LiveJournal.

If you don't like intrusive attention, you can keep your journal so that no one sees it. Even friends. Then it will be like your paper notebook, only on the Internet, so grandma won’t find it. At any time, you can make any entry open to everyone or your friends. “Friends” in LiveJournal are those users whom you have added to your friend list. That is, as soon as you said - this is my friend! - and clicked the appropriate button - this person can see your posts that you marked “Only friends can read.”

Of course, when you don’t know what to write in your diary, you can go through the diaries of your friends or just any open diaries and see what new and interesting things are happening in the world and in LiveJournal. It's very easy to do. Any friend of yours can go to your journal to find all the public entries there.

If this morning you wrote something like: “The world is still structured unfairly - a spider has a four-chambered heart, like a human, and there are not two legs, but eight! Why such injustice?” - your friend, if he has time and he likes you, most likely will not fail to answer you that it’s good that a person has only two legs, otherwise, how long would you have to cut your nails? Not only you, but also your friends would probably respond to this smartest comment. In the end, it would be an interesting scientific debate, completely recorded in your journal on one page, where it will be stored for as long as you want. At any time, you can delete any comment, an entire conversation (comment thread), your post with all the comments, or even your entire diary.

It would be a great pity if you turned out to be one of those fools who, in a fit of momentary outburst, deleted a journal with a thousand entries, and then cried bitterly that a huge period of their life with thoughts, emotions and ideas had sunk into oblivion. Now LiveJournal is designed in such a way that the journal is not deleted immediately, but remains in a secret place for another month or two. This saved a lot of diaries.

In LiveJournal it sometimes happens that groups of users unite into communities of interest. Such groups are called communities. For example, those who like to read books publish reviews in the Ru_Books community. Each community has its own separate magazine. In general, this is exactly the same diary, the only difference is that any member of the community can post entries in the community diary. That is, this is a diary of many people at once.

You can join any community. That is, join a club of interests and follow the publications that other club members put in the magazine. You will have the opportunity to publish your entries there, or simply read others’, without joining the club and remaining an outside observer. Culinary enthusiasts or car enthusiasts, cactus lovers and Chinchilla Girls groups, builders and businessmen - there are so many communities that it’s dizzying. Many Russian and foreign companies have their own communities on LiveJournal, into which they try to attract customers and fans.

For example, when this post was written, the most popular communities in LJ were the “Ru_sex” and “Girls_on_diet” communities. Later, a wonderful community appeared, “I will give it away for free,” in which they publish advertisements about things that people want to get rid of for free. From there I received a wonderful computer desk, which served me faithfully for many years, after which I myself gave it to other users.

Of course, as the owner of the diary, you yourself can organize your own club of interests. Choose any topic and go ahead. For example, no one has yet created a Society for Fans of Inflating Airships. By the way, some users join LiveJournal only to participate in communities. They do not keep their own diaries and do not read the diaries of their friends.

Each LiveJournal user has a page with your profile (and face). There you can find information about yourself, your interests, photographs and much more. There you can also post rules for commenting on entries in your diary. For example, prohibit swearing in your diary or prohibit writing to those who believe that prohibiting swearing is snobbery.

You can often come across rules like “If you don’t like what I write, gather in columns and go to...”. Or “Only people from planet Earth are allowed to comment on my blog.” If you want to describe your interests, you can do it briefly, for example, “I like to think” or “dig,” or you can do it long and boring (as I like to write). Then, simply by clicking on any “interest” with the mouse, you can easily check whether someone else likes to dig or whether you are the only one so smart.

To make things even more special, you can assign yourself an avatar. An Avatar is not a movie, but a small little picture, 100 by 100 pixels, personifying you or your spirit while you are hovering somewhere. From this picture you can sometimes tell a lot about the owner of the diary. Some people put their portrait there. But if you don’t need extra fame, any image that most closely matches your Ego will do. For example, a dog or a flower would do. Axe, rainbow or eye. The pictures are often very interesting. What will be on your avatar is up to you.

You are the author of your diary. You can design it according to your tastes. Paint, paint, disfigure or turn into a masterpiece. There are many ready-made options. The content of your diary can also be anything. Narrowly thematic or broadly public. Political, automotive, musical or mushroom. You can write at least one word a year, at least a thousand pages a minute. There are no restrictions. There are paid versions of the magazine with advanced features, but the free version is enough for the vast majority. In order not to forget or lose anyone, you can bookmark the magazines of friends or any interesting comrades from different countries and cities. And then open them with one click. That's how it all works.

By the way, you can meet especially interesting friends in real life, go to cafes, and maybe even restaurants. Dating “in real life” after correspondence on LiveJournal is a very common thing. The author of this entry knows many ZheZhysts personally. But, of course, you don’t have to meet anyone ever, limiting yourself to just posts or comments. There are numerous known friendships, cohabitations and marriages of people who met on LiveJournal. In the first years, when the magazine first appeared, we all went to the same places (in Moscow, the most famous meeting place was PND - Cafe "Pirogi" on Dmitrovka) and we knew each other by sight.

People write their own diaries, read others’, comment on all this every day, from year to year. The magazine is seething, seething and living its own life. This is indeed a very lively Magazine. Gossips and rumors circulate around it, someone deletes their magazines, someone comes to you in some unknown way and adds your magazine to their bookmarks. And you, having found an interesting person, add his magazine to your list of friends. And so on ad infinitum! People write their thoughts, post pictures, send links to interesting sites, discuss the latest news and philosophize about everything in the world.

All this is difficult to describe, but for greater clarity, you should just go to LiveJournal and read several entries and comments to them. Try writing something to any LiveJournal user. For example, me. Right below this entry at the very bottom there is a window into which you can paste a couple of words and click the “Save” button. Also, like in my magazine, in most magazines you can leave a comment without even being a registered user. If I and other users answer you, all this may seem extremely exciting and interesting to you. Or maybe not.

LJ should be perceived more as a part of life than as a part of the Internet. Journaling is both a very private and very public activity. To what extent one thing and to what extent another is up to the owner of his magazine to decide. Since 2002, LJ has become an integral part of the Runet (the Russian part of the Internet) and now there are almost no people left who still (as one commentator writes) widen their eyes in surprise at the word “LJ.” But even if everyone knows well what LiveJournal is and what it is eaten with, this entry will hang here as long as my magazine exists.

Welcome to LiveJournal!

Yours sincerely,
Mikhail Lyufanov,
aka LJ user Mycroft

I consider Live Journal (www.livejournal.com) to be a most valuable and unique source of information, and I dream of organizing this information into “shelves” and “business cards” (like “multimedia index cards”) of my Panlog. But to do this, we first need to highlight the most popular “live journals” (blogs, diaries), although, of course, mass popularity is by no means a guarantee of informativeness and thoroughness. I myself dream of slowly evaluating every significant blog, but only during the contentization of the Personalities section of my Panlog. However, an overview of the most interesting blogs, including political ones, is presented in LJ itself in the blogs of Ilya Peresedov and Denis Tukmakov. I would add some people, including from the list of my friends. What is important is not so much the discussion of important topics as the receipt of important information and stimulating intellectual impulses. First, here’s what Ilya Peresedov, after spending a colossal amount of work, selected in the material “Who’s Who in LiveJournal”:

A summary review (about 200 names) of readable LJ magazines.

Blogs that are informative (with a distinct topic), meaningful, and, as a rule, do not develop a mental disorder in friends.

The review is incomplete and very biased. It is divided into categories by eye.

I ask those who found it useful to announce the list in magazines to supplement the information and sections.

Utamusic - singer Utah - talented, friendly, sociable. Cultural, albeit popular.
olga_arefieva - Olga Arefieva is a famous rock singer, writer, guru.
khaloymes - Psoy Galaktionovich Korolenko - poet, singer, avant-garde artist
polittechno - Alexey Vishnya - musician, cult sound engineer, author of legendary sample clips.
kalugin - Sergei Kalugin - rock musician, good poet, professional guitarist, leader of the group "Orgy of the Righteous" (unfortunately).
sourdummy - Vitaly Loginov - simply a stylish magazine about modern music.
rock_meloman is a competent magazine on the history of rock.
bogushevich - Irina Bogushevskaya is a popular singer.
zaxar_borisych - Zakhar Mai is a rock musician, a cult favorite for many.
ylgur - Helavissa - lead singer of the group "Melnitsa".
p0grebizhskaya - singer Butch.
umkaumka and ru_umka - Umka (Anna Gerasimova) - leader of the rock group "Umka and the armored car", the last hippie.
chernetsky - Alexander Chernetsky - leader of the rock group "Different People", a veteran of rock and roll.
liapin - Alexander Lyapin, a guitarist who played with the Aquarium classic line-up and DDT, demonstrated a master class in London at the invitation of Paul McCartney.
ylores - Yuri Lores - bard, member of the Writers' Union, bard, director-teacher of acting skills, bard.
klodonis - Andrey Emelyanov - experimental music theorist, musicologist.
corny_joke - Andrey Volkov - artist, musicologist, historian of avant-garde rock.
m_u_s_t_a_f_a - Oleg Starodubtsev is a music lover, music collector, Muslim, writer.
sexfunk - Vis Vitalis - rapper, poet, rock musician.

Theatre, cinema, animation, television

Pavelrudnev - Pavel Rudnev - theater critic, art director of the Center. Meyerhold.
samoleg - Oleg Kuvaev - cult animator, creator of Masyanya.
vanya_maximov - Ivan Maximov is a brilliant animator, author of the films “The Wind Along the Shore” and “Provincial School”
aldashin - Mikhail Aldashin is a director, screenwriter and producer of the animation studio "Pilot". author of the most magnificent films.
oleg_kozyrev - Oleg Kozyrev is a writer, screenwriter, witty person.
e_grishkovets - Evgeny Grishkovets is the author of popular solo performances.
kolyadanik - Nikolay Kolyada - playwright, editor-in-chief of the Ural magazine, artistic director of the Kolyada Theater, Yekaterinburg
spitzruten - Alexander Rozanov - video artist, video clip director.
cinemapages - Pavel Ruminov - film director, (film "Dead Daughters").
tuganbaev - Askar Tuganbaev - journalist, TV presenter, producer of the Rutube.ru portal. A very bright person.
dmitrydibrov - Dmitry Dibrov - TV presenter, showman.
koroed - director of Internet television "Russia.Ru".
pushnoy_ru - Alexander Pushnoy - TV presenter, KVN star, musician.
awas1952 - Anatoly Wasserman - mathematician, veteran of intellectual games "What? Where? When?" and "Brain Ring".

Art

Corso_ - art critic, publisher, specialist in ancient Russian art, senior researcher at the Tretyakov Gallery.
clement - art critic, historian, archivist.
galerist - Marat Gelman - gallery owner, political strategist, "patriarch" of modern fine art.
dmitrivrubel - Dmitry Vrubel is a famous contemporary artist, the author of the iconic portrait “the kiss of Brezhny and Honecker” on the Berlin Wall, the great-nephew of “that same Vrubel.”
teterin - Sergey Teterin, media artist.
cmart - Oleg Pashchenko is an endlessly talented designer and illustrator. This is already art.
winzavod is the magazine of Moscow's largest exhibition site for contemporary art.
dadakinder - Anatoly Ulyanov - Ukrainian journalist, critic, writer, editor-in-chief of the Proza publication about contemporary art.
teroganian - Avdey Ter-Oganyan is the same infamous artist who left the country due to threats from Orthodox fundamentalists.
irinshka - Irina Gabiani - a talented artist from Georgia (examples of work).
lena_hades is a nonconformist artist and a whole other thing.
borya_spec - Boris Spec is a philosopher-cartoonist.
zhgun is a talented and very witty illustrator from Artemy Lebedev's studio.
akuaku - Andrey Kuznetsov is a very talented and witty illustrator.
ellustrator - Sergey Elkin is a talented and popular cartoonist.
soamo - Vladimir Kamaev is another cult illustrator, only from St. Petersburg.
gordei - Andrey Gordeev is simply a good and witty artist and designer.
a_asz - Alexander Zavarin - artist, restorer, art historian.

Literature

Levrub - Lev Rubinstein - poet, writer, activist of the sixties.
maccolit - Alexander Zhitinsky - writer, publisher, Internet guru.
izubr - Alya Kudryasheva - the most popular online poetess
vero4ka - Vera Polozkova - the most popular online poetess
shenderovich - Viktor Shenderovich - humorist, writer, journalist, public figure.
ganja_jungle - Dmitry Gaiduk - writer and storyteller, author of the project "Rastafarian Tales"
tom_stoppard - Tom Stoppard is a great modern English playwright, the journal is maintained in Russian by an assistant.
snorapp - Linor Goralik is a cult modern writer, author of a series of philosophical comics about the PC hare and his imaginary friends.
hildegart is simply a brilliant online writer
aspida - these are the names that LiveJournal exists for. A unique series of texts “the world through the eyes of a cat” is here:
immoralist - Almat Malatov - folk-bohemian writer.
doctor_livsy - popular science fiction writer Sergei Lukyanenko.
chemodanov - Andrey Chemodanov is a poet, a sincere person.
bachilo - Alexander Bachilo - poet-humorist, science fiction writer.
lleo - Leonid Kaganov - writer, poet, very witty person.
mysch_glikeria - magazine of children's fairy tales.
solipsistka - Ella Derzai, writer, editor, works in the style of glamorous trash.
frumich - Sergey Uzun - writer, humorist, storyteller.
gardenerm - Yuri Smirnov, film producer, poet, writer.
labas - Igor Petrov - poet, writer, Internet legend.
beauty_n_beast - Spouses Divov and Prokopchik, writers (mostly science fiction), good storytellers.
afranius - Kirill Eskov - writer, author of "The Gospel of Afranius", scientist.
vanda_va - Marina Yudenich - bestselling author, socialite.
chingizid - Max Fry.
aptsvet - Alexey Tsvetkov - poet, translator. Honored and loved.
borkhers - Boris Khersonsky - Russian poet and psychiatrist.
berezin - Vladimir Berezin is a science fiction writer and a good storyteller.
mrparker - Maxim Kononenko - the same one, the creator of the site Vladimir.Vladimirovich.Ru, the author of the book "The Day of the Excellent Student", a popular blogger.
urus_hay - Andrey Lazarchuk is a talented science fiction writer.
fayzov - Danila Fayzov is a poet, organizer of poetry parties, and an expert on the poetic life of Moscow.
vodennikov - Dmitry Vodennikov is a popular poet, handsome.

Journalism

Drugoi - Rustem Adagamov is the most read and popular LiveJournal user. Unique photo reports, news from around the world.
labazov - reviews of historical dates, thematic selections of e-books.
dimagubin - Dmitry Gubin is an excellent journalist, a good conversationalist, a regular contributor to Ogonyok and other publications.
malutka_du - Igor Dudinsky - editor, journalist, living legend.
m_yu_sokolov - the same Maxim Sokolov - Kremlin journalist, bearded and boring.
smitrich - Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich - leading journalist of the Izvestia newspaper, author of the scandalous book "Net-Tajik Girls, Non-Chechen Boys."
e_dikiy - Sergey Ilyin - journalist, political and economic commentator, "Expert" and other publications.
yatsutko - Denis Yatsutko is a journalist and network thinker. Great. Moody.
avmalgin - Andrey Malgin - journalist, publisher, anti-adviser, know-it-all. Very nervous, inclined to believe conspiracy theories.
nl - Nikolay Danilov (“Norwegian Forester”) - journalist, photographer, editor, Internet guru.
anticompromat - Vladimir Pribylovsky - journalist, chronicler, former historian of the Middle Ages. Editor of the website "Antikompromat.Ru" - a library of texts about Russian politics and life in general. Facts are always served hot and with pepper.
xlarina - Ksenia Larina - radio presenter "Echo of Moscow", editor-in-chief of the magazine "Teatral".
leonid_b - Leonid Bleher - publicist, critic, head of the Internet project "Club Discourse".
timur_aliev - Timur Aliev is the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chechen Society" (Grozny).
golishev - Vladimir Golyshev is the editor of the independent information portal "Nazlobu.Ru". Very, very independent.
kotoeb - Ilya Barabanov - journalist, columnist for The New Times magazine
ymalbats - Evgenia Albats - journalist, presenter of original programs on radio "Echo of Moscow", editor of the "Politics" section of "The New Times" magazine, professor at the Higher School of Economics.
scottishkot - Yuri Vasiliev - journalist, editor of the "Society" department of the magazine "Ogonyok", provocateur and writer.
kozenko - Andrey Kozenko is a correspondent for the society department of the Kommersant newspaper.
receiver - Ruslan Linkov - writer, journalist, human rights activist.
vad_nes - Vadim Nesterov - head of the "Culture" department of the Gazeta.Ru website, literary critic.
avvas - Andrey Vasilevsky - literary critic, employee of the magazine "New World".
arkhangelsky - Alexander Arkhangelsky - journalist, columnist for Izvestia, author and host of the program "Meanwhile"
_kutuzov - Nikolai Troitsky - journalist.
askerov - Rovshan Askerov - sports columnist, player "What? Where? When?"
clear_text - Denis Dragunsky - publicist
gospodi - Alexander Shatalov - literary critic, publisher, TV presenter.
corpuscula - Anastasia Chastitsyna - gossip columnist, regular contributor to Rolling Stone magazine.
sumlenny - Sergei Sumlenny - journalist, special correspondent for Expert in Germany.
plushev - Alexander Plushev - presenter of radio "Echo of Moscow", Internet guru.
barros - Sergei Berezhnoy - literary and film critic.
pavell - Pavel Svyatenkov - analyst, political commentator.
pintrader - Dmitry Romendik - journalist, poet, editor of innovative network projects.
shmelev - Alexander Shmelev - editor-in-chief of the online newspaper "Vzglyad", politician, political scientist.
zt - Dmitry Butrin - head of the economic policy department of the Kommersant newspaper.
good_boy is a high-quality film magazine.
cook - Sergey Parkhomenko - publisher, journalist, radio host of "Echo of Moscow", restaurateur.
agavr - Alexander Gavrilov - literary critic, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Book Review"
kinanet - Sergey Kudryavtsev is a legendary film encyclopedist.
yellow_reporter - Sergey Kozakov - journalist, organizer of television programs and political debates.
a_nikonov - Alexander Nikonov - writer, publicist, author of provocative books, editor of the site "Without Censorship".
parfenov_l - Leonid Parfenov - journalist, TV presenter, media guru.
uskov - Nikolai Uskov is the editor-in-chief of GQ magazine.

Humanitarian sciences

Victorsolkin - Victor Solkin, professional Egyptologist, author of scientific articles, collector of photographs of ancient art.
dmitry_loevsky - Dmitry Loevsky is a historian, translator of monographs on cultural history.
ivanov_petrov - LiveJournal star, biologist, researcher, sociologist-practitioner.
r_l - Roman Leibov - analyst-observer, semiotician, teacher at the University of Tartu, the first Russian-speaking user of LiveJournal.
shaherezada - Larisa Lisyutkina - cultural scientist, teacher at the Free University (Berlin).
pigbig - Elena Gapova - Director of the Center for Gender Studies at the European Humanities University in Minsk, the women's issue as it is.
ksonin - Konstantin Sonin is a professor at the Russian economic school, a famous political economist.
alik_manov - Oleg Lekmanov - literary critic, professor at Moscow State University and Russian State University for the Humanities, author of the famous book "Yesenin", which completely destroys the version of the violent death of the poet, the biography of Osip Mandelstam in the series "ZhZL".
Galkovsky is a free philosopher, the author of the first Russian postmodern novel “Endless Dead End” (he considers himself a genius and behaves accordingly).
alwdis - Alexandra Barkova - mythologist, Buddhist scholar.
kosilova - Elena Kosilova - philosopher, employee of Moscow State University.
hentiamenti - Pavel Kostylev - religious scholar, researcher at Moscow State University.
u_96 is a diary of a national professional historian - everything about military history and more, deeply and with excellent humor. As befits a pirate - purely masculine style and swearing to the point.
ashako - pro from State. Hermitage, a lot of interesting information and thoughts about China, Tibet and oriental art in general. A look at the museum from the inside.
yamauba - pro from State. Hermitage, subtle, deep and imaginative posts about Japan, Japanese art, museum life. A look at the museum from the inside.
nikto001 - Kirill Alekseev - art critic, antique dealer, artist. A lot of interesting and high-quality information about the history of art.
hitrovka - Nikolay Avvakumov - a serious magazine dedicated to architecture, the preservation of cultural heritage monuments, and Russia of past centuries.
pulman - Andrey Gordienko - historian and publisher from Minsk. Domestic history, space history, history of the Afghan war and modern history of Afghanistan.
a_barhin - A. Barkhin - architect, art historian. Lots of information and photographs on the history of architecture, architectural masterpieces and styles. Abundance of useful links.
centaurito - archaeologist and ancient historian from St. Petersburg; the magazine contains a lot of useful, mostly scientific information on the archeology of Asia and related disciplines. Interesting discussions.

Internet

Tema - Artemy Lebedev - cult designer, Internet guru, author of the Yandex design.
avva - Anatoly Vorobey - programmer, once participated in the development of LiveJournal, Internet guru.
dolboeb - Anton Nosik, journalist, Internet guru, “patriarch” of LJ.
exler - Alex Exler is a writer, journalist, professional "advanced" PC user.
skuzn - Sergey Kuznetsov - journalist, writer, author of a book on the history of the Runet "Feeling the Elephant."
kukutz - Roman Ivanov - programmer, Yandex employee, Internet guru.
elissa - Natalya Loseva - head of Internet projects at the Ria-Novosti agency, Internet guru.
moshkow - Maxim Moshkov is the creator of the site Lib.Ru - the most famous Internet library, guru.
valkorn - journalist, editor, designer.

Women in LiveJournal

Katechkina is an online writer, the author of an endless series of stories about the obstacles in the life of a married woman. Optimistic and witty.
radulova - Natalya Radulova is a talented journalist who writes about the share of women in general in this most difficult of worlds.
marta_ketro is an almost cult writer about women, dignity and truth.
muramur - writer, artist, about life through the prism of beauty.
otte_pelle - human psychology in all its manifestations.
feruza - Dina Sabitova - children's writer, winner of the national literary award "CHEASURED DREAM", keeper of the hearth.
sol_tat - doctor, writer, woman-razor, girl-scalpel.
bluecaffe - notes from a St. Petersburg woman living in Sweden, sweet, observant, witty. She also “does everything!!!”
becky_sharpe - Bozena Rynska - gossip columnist for the Izvestia newspaper.
hrivelote - Anna Hrivelote - writer, alcoholic in the end, glamorous decadence.
snandulija - Olga Maksimova - radio presenter, "Morning Lark".
beth4ever - Elizaveta Ponomareva - editor of the magazine "Friend of Cats", literary agent and critic.
garpia2 - Svetlana is the chief zoologist of LiveJournal, a specialist in amphibians and reptiles.
pilka - Lena is the author of entertaining stories about the life of a married woman, a gynecologist, a person of interesting destiny.
belik - Olga Belik - gossip columnist, creator of the website "StarsLife.Ru", main LiveJournal specialist on Johnny Depp.
xvii is an interesting women's magazine.
mrs_majorsha - as refined as a madrigal, she writes about love and its consequences.
phenobarbidol_ - Sofia Bakhurina - nonconformist, poetess, translator, fashion model.
pepel - Elena Pepel is an online writer.

UPD. At the request and requirements of readers, a section was added: Men in LiveJournal
section compiled by muramur, original entry: http://muramur.livejournal.com/220661.html, mirror: http://peresedov.livejournal.com/616726.html

Politics, social activities

Belyh - Nikita Belykh - leader of the Union of Right Forces, it seems.
roizman - Evgeniy Roizman is a patriotic deputy without a mandate, a drug fighter, some kind of shady guy.
yashin - Ilya Yashin - leader of the Yabloko youth party, playboy of Russian youth politics.
b_nemtsov - Boris Nemtsov is an ever-young politician.
navalny - Alexey Navalny - journalist, TV presenter, liberal patriot, one of the leaders of the public movement "NAROD"
alex_lebedev - Alexander Lebedev - diadoch, millionaire, media tycoon, politician.
shargunov - Sergei Shargunov - writer, politician, failed third number of the top three of the A Just Russia party, victim of the Kremlin Agitprop.
nevzlin - Leonid Nevzlin - banker, businessman, one of the co-owners of the YUKOS company, former rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities, emigrated to Israel to escape Russian justice.
doctor_liza - Elizaveta Glinka - head of the ambulance service for the hopelessly ill, holy LiveJournal.
chistyakova - Ekaterina Chistyakova - doctor, donor.
vnovodvorskaia - Valeria Novodvorskaya - will, conscience and honor of independent Russian democracy. The leader of the Democratic Union party conducts endless dialogues with readers on the principle of “ask and we answer.”
abstract2001 - Marina Litvinovich - political strategist, professional oppositionist, journalist.
den_shi - Denis Shilnikov - political strategist, press secretary of the Democratic Party, musician.
bonych - Andrey Bogdanov - political strategist, leader of the Democratic Party, candidate for president of the Russian Federation.
v_alksnis2 - Victor Alksnis - former State Duma deputy, professional patriot, great fighter.
sapojnik - Alexey Roshchin - political strategist, journalist, leader of the Free Party.
tosainu - Laura Beloivan - writer, environmentalist, animal advocate.
karimova - Anastasia Karimova - journalist, young politician, volunteer of charitable organizations.

Yakov_krotov - O. Yakov Krotov - priest, theologian, host of his own program on Radio Liberty, student of Alexander Men.
hgr - oh. Gregory (Lurie) - Byzantinist, Church historian, social activist, leader of a small but friendly Orthodox Church.
klangtao - Oleg Doroshenko - theologian, Internet author (Orthodox).
zamorin - Miroslav Bakulin - journalist, teacher, editor-in-chief of the Russian Week website.
piotr_sakharov - Peter Sakharov, philologist, liturgist, Christian publicist, one of the authors of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
gurbolikov - Vladimir Gurbolikov - deputy. editor-in-chief of the magazine "Foma".
petru44o - Petr Korolev is the editor-in-chief of the student Orthodox magazine “Vstrecha”.
ann_d - Anna Danilova - editor-in-chief of the website "Orthodoxy and Peace"
kot_begemott - Igor Lebedev - online writer, Orthodox layman.
priestal - Alexander Shramko - a priest from Belarus with philanthropic views.
steba - biblical scholar at the behest of his heart, Orthodox.
berggeist - Gleb Yastrebov - teacher at the Biblical Theological Institute, translator, New Testament biblical scholar.
reverendsfd - Sergey Dezhnyuk is an American Episcopal priest of Ukrainian origin, public figure, and interesting conversationalist.
ezh108 is a practicing yogi, writes sketches about trips to India, posts YouTube videos containing examples of Indian religious culture.
dharmena - blog of a member of the Society for Krishna Consciousness, links to Krishna Consciousness resources on the Internet, festival announcements, quotes from sacred texts with comments.
boris_yakemenko - Boris Yakemenko is the head of the Orthodox corps of the Nashi movement.

Ostrich_san - Alexey Gavrilets - hooligan, erotomaniac, virtuoso of artistic swearing.
adolfych - Vladimir Nesterenko - writer, truth-teller, punisher, curse of the Turgenev family.
bagirov - Eduard Bagirov - "people's" writer (novel "Guest Worker"), editor-in-chief and leading author of the website litprom.ru, rude and rowdy.
bugzzz - Stepan Eremin - creator, owner and editor-in-chief of the site padonki.org
karmakom - Ilya Kormiltsev (09/26/1959 - 02/04/2007) - poet, translator, cultural theorist, publisher.
chich8 - Evgeny Chichvarkin is a successful businessman, creator of Euroset, a hybrid of O. Bender and B. Gates.
emelind - Vsevolod Emelin is a poet, author of deliberately politically incorrect poems.
susel_times - Oleg Borichev - poet, foul-mouthed, romantic.

Writers of everyday life, simply interesting interlocutors

Kitya is a professional traveler who has lived in Japan for a long time.
hectop - pilot, aviation specialist.
letchikleha - pilot-photographer.
alexbogd - Alexey Bogdanovsky is a special correspondent for Ria-Novosti in Greece.
stilo - Anna Polyanskaya - journalist, observer of Parisian everyday life, anti-Islamist.
iraan - Irina Antanasevich - writer, observer of Yugoslav everyday life.
tttkkk - Andrey Lankov - political scientist, expert on North Korea.
langobard - Sergei Shmidt - philosophy teacher, ironic observer of life.
willie_wonka - Anna Korosteleva - teacher of Russian language for foreigners at Moscow State University, specialist in the Irish language. Interests: China, Japan, American Indian languages, etc.
smartnik - Nikolenko Sergey - mathematician, artificial intelligence specialist, player of the club "What? Where? When?"
zina_korzina is a magazine about fashion, its history and in general.
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stas_kulesh - Stanislav Kulesh is a life columnist from New Zealand.

Photographers, photo collectors

D_konstantinov - Dmitry Konstantinov is a professional photographer.
mi3ch - Dmitry Chernyshev - art director of an advertising agency, collector of rare photographs.
paszec - Pavel Kiryukhin - artist, designer, photographer, stove maker, bell ringer, carpenter.
russos - metro photographer.
kotiy_pilat - Alexander Belenky - photographer, traveler.
usachev - Alexey Usachev - photographer, designer, reporter.
semas - Sergey Semkin - St. Petersburg photographer, singer of the beauty of young maidens.
dolgachov - Lev Dolgachev - secular photographer.
remetalk - Sergey Maximishin is a St. Petersburg photojournalist, one of the most famous photographers in Russia, a World Press Photo laureate.
wildrussia - Viktor Petrovich Gritsyuk - photographer, photojournalist, photo editor.
konst_d - Konstantin Dyachkov - photographer, photojournalist, author of many photo stories from church life.
im_foto - Igor Mukhin is one of the most famous genre photographers of the post-Soviet period.
allanrannu - Allan, traveler, artist, photographer, philosopher. Amazingly beautiful author's photographs taken in the Himalayas, Tibet, India, and other Asian countries.
nikolkaya - Nicole - photographs from all corners of the world from the North Cape to Cape Horn, journalist.

Economics and business.

Today, when LiveJournal is no longer a cake, it is rapidly changing with the times, with the help of financial instruments, a blog with almost any content can get to the top of the ranking. If previously interesting exclusive content ruled the roost, now it’s mostly cash injections, provocative headlines and other ways to get to the top. But most newcomers begin their acquaintance with LiveJournal from the TOP. So which blogs are really interesting?

1. varlamov.ru . Everyone knows about Varlamov, and yet, among the daily bombardment of top posts, in my opinion, the most interesting ones are about cities. From the "bad"/"good" series. Travel notes from abroad are also good. Everything else is for everyone, but there are also many such amateurs among his army of readers.

2. macos . Varlamov is wrong about Alexander Belenky, I don’t know what went wrong between them. In fact, he’s a normal guy, I’ve known him for a long time. Which one of us doesn’t get carried away from time to time? You literally read his photo stories from different countries avidly, they are so interesting and professionally made. It’s a pity, there are fewer and fewer of them on Alexander’s blog, and more and more yellowness. But this is understandable; what is the demand, so is the supply.

3. theme . Behind the mask of an Internet boor and outrageous person lies an erudite and intelligent citizen. It’s enough to read his posts about design, urban structure, and Tyomin’s notes from ALL corners of the world (even with mediocre photos) - generally unique material that no one else has. And courage... Maybe from some complexes.

4. sergeydolya . I have been following Sergei’s blog since 2008, and I met him personally around 2012. I learned a lot (it seems to me) from him. Lump, what else can I say. It’s a pity, after switching to NIKON, for some reason the photographs became much worse.

5. nemihail . Misha has found his niche and works well, with a quickdraw. By the way, provocative headlines and a clever introduction to the cut are largely his invention, adopted today. There is even such an expression - “not to be mischievous”. In real life he is a very sociable and not at all star-studded person, respect.

6. aquatek_filips . Sergei Anashkevich is a very cool photographer and traveler. I still remember how I filmed the night sky with him in Jordan, and I also learned something from him. I am always glad to meet and travel together with Sergei.

7. dpmmax . Psychiatrist from Togliatti Maxim Malyavin, who runs a blog together with his wife, is a very pleasant person in personal communication. Besides, he’s a colleague, so it’s very, very interesting to be with him. The blog contains the most sparkling psychiatric stories, I recommend it.

8. kiss_my_abs . Sonya Gudim's blog will be primarily of interest to fit young ladies, but even for me, a person far from this topic, it is interesting to read her stories.

9. dolboeb . Anton Borisovich Nosik is the guru of Runet and LiveJournal, this is indisputable. His sophisticated analytical articles “on the topic of the day” will seem too contradictory to many, but reading them is certainly useful.

10. dubikvit . A blog filled with interesting stories from the past - mainly about how certain films were made. Very exciting.

11. popados . Arthur Shigapov, who has traveled most of the world and written many guidebooks to different countries, is bright and sharp-tongued, his posts are read in one breath. The sweetest person in life.

12. mossudmed . Notes from a Moscow forensic expert, accompanied by vivid and ominous macro photographs telling the story of why a particular person died. It will be interesting for readers with strong nerves.

13. ammo1 . Alexey Nadezhin writes daily about all kinds of gadgets and electronic accessories, conducts tests of various pieces of hardware - from light bulbs to computers.

14. doctorbel . Notes from a resuscitator.

15. lovigin . Everyone knows Peter Lovygin as a talented photographer who gets into various assholes of the world and vividly talks about them. His photographs cannot be confused with anyone else's. Master of his craft.

16. stalic . An expert in oriental cooking and the author of several books on this topic. In addition, even before the advent of Instagram, I was a professional in terms of taking perfect food photographs.

17. ljpromo . Oleg Ovchinnikov, who lives where there is a cloudless sky over the entire country, is a LJ expert. It is from his blog that you can glean secrets and lift the veils hidden from prying eyes. With all questions about ratings and other insurance companies, go to him.

18. vmenshov . The same focus of the blog as Oleg’s, plus very cool macro photographs of insects.