Radio Mayak was formally established in accordance with a resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union issued on 24th of June 1964.

An excerpt from the memoirs of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya about her work at Poslednie Izvestiya: Our chief, Vladimir Tregubov, a handsome man, married many times, completely gray, tanned, whistling through the corridors like a torpedo, Volodya, who spoke abruptly, was always in a hurry and looked over people's heads, he did not delve into details, did not get under people's skin, like many of my later bosses; but at one key moment Tregubov put a final end to his life: at a party meeting, so to speak, he committed suicide by refusing to vote for the introduction of troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Then he was gradually driven out...Since 1966, the outstanding Soviet journalist Yuri Letunov was appointed editor-in-chief, under whom the radio station acquired its characteristic image.

the third and fourth, "major" bars were heard ("Everything here froze until the morning"), which made it easy to determine the time by ear with an accuracy of up to half an hour.

823 "On improving the structure of state radio broadcasting in the Russian Federation",[7] and on November 14, 1997, the Government of Russia adopted resolution No.

Since 2007, a new broadcasting concept was proposed by the famous businessman from RMG Sergey Arkhipov, he tried to reorient the radio station to an audience of 25-35 years old.

Since March 14, 2013, due to the termination of payment by VGTRK for transmitters retransmitting the signal, the radio station stopped broadcasting on long and medium waves and became unavailable in rural and remote settlements, as well as on highways outside cities.

[12] According to research by TNS Gallup Media (Russia, cities with a population of over 100,000 people) for July-December 2014, Mayak once again confirmed its leadership among all federal radio networks of the information and talk format in terms of average daily listener coverage.

During the specified period, the daily audience of the radio station in large cities of Russia amounted to about 4.2 million people (or 6.6% of the total population over 12 years of age).