Советская Классика

Советская Классика says classical in Cyrillic. A name that describes its own programming is worth reading rather than skipping, because it is a fact stated by the broadcaster rather than a tag added by whoever filed the entry into Russia's listing.

Position 39 of 471 in Russia. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

The station's leading tag is ретро, shared with 11 other entries in Russia. It is a well populated tag here without being one of the country's defining ones, which is a common and unremarkable place for a station to sit.

Советская Классика streams at 96 kbps, under Russia's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

Its audio comes straight from rr-sovclass.hostingradio.ru, an address unique to this entry in Russia's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.