The magazine was published twelve times per year (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December).

[4] In August 1997 it was reported that Condé Nast had formed a joint-venture with SK Communications International to publish Vogue Russia, with the first issue planned for Spring 1998.

[9][10] However, in October 1997 it was reported that the partnership was scrapped and instead a subsidiary (fully-owned by Condé Nast International) would be set up to launch Russian Vogue in mid-1998.

[14] On the cover of the first issue were Kate Moss and Amber Valletta (as can be seen above in the infobox at the top of the page) and they were photographed by Mario Testino, Doletskaya (the magazine's Editor-in-Chief) agreed in a 2016 interview with Rebecca Kesby for the BBC that the magazine helped to build the national identity of Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

[12] Russian Vogue's launch issue was 308 pages and earned $1 million from advertisers and was projected to sell over 100,000 copies.

[21] At the time there was a "changing of the guard" in the Russian publishing industry with Evelina Khromchenko of L'Officiel Russia since 1997, being fired in May 2010.

[6] She caused controversy with her debut issue which featured Uzbek-Russian gymnast turned politician Alina Kabayeva (rumoured to be in an affair with Vladimir Putin) on the cover with netizens calling it a "disgrace".