After 1991, the structure of “Melodiya” (primarily the centralized system of orders and sales) began to fall apart, and the record plants included in it received unexpected and, as it turned out, burdensome freedom.

Demand for vinyl records began to decline sharply: the purchasing power of the population fell, the production of turntables decreased, and a new optical audio format, CD, entered the market.

In 2002, the Aprelevka gramophone record plant was declared bankrupt by decision of the Moscow Region Arbitration Court.

[2] In August 2014, information appeared in the mass media[3] that in Aprelevka it was planned to reconstruct the territory of the Melodiya phonograph record plant.

Instead of the closed territory of the industrial zone, it is planned to build a city square and a main street with a shopping arcade, set up a park, organize a cultural center, a record museum and a mini-hotel with 100 seats.