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{{Short description|Russian magazine and website dedicated to computer technology}}
{{Infobox magazine
|title = Computerra
|image_file = Computerra-cover-706.jpg
|image_size = 200px
|image_caption = ''Computerra'' #706 cover
|editor = [[Vladislav Biryukov]]
|editor_title = Editor-in-Chief
|frequency = Weekly and online (before December 15, 2009); online-only (after December 15, 2009)
|circulation = 64,000 / week (December 2009)
|category = [[Computer magazine]]
|company = [[C&C Computer Publishing Limited]]
|publisher = C&C Computer Publishing Limited
|firstdate = December 21, 1992
|finaldate = December 15, 2009
|finalnumber = #47–48 (811–812)
|country = Russia
|based = Moscow
|language = [[Russian language|Russian]]
|website = {{URL|https://old.computerra.ru}}
|issn = 1815-2198
}}
'''''Computerra''''' ({{lang-ru|Компьюте́рра}}) was a Russian [[computer]] weekly publication. The first edition was released on December 21, 1992 and was published by C&C Computer Publishing Limited (Computerra Publishing House).<ref name="lulu">{{cite book|title=Russian Mass Media Directory Volume 1 Strategic Information and Contacts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PTn_CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA119|access-date=26 November 2016|date=7 February 2007|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-4330-4173-0|page=119}}</ref> Later, it was supplemented by a website at www.computerra.ru. Due to financial problems and lack of advertisement material, the issue 811–812 on December 15, 2009 was the last issue to be published offline, with only the online version remaining active. The last issue cover lacks a usual cover image, with only the black rectangle instead and the words roughly translatable as "It's now safe to shut down your computerra", as a pun on the shutdown image of [[Windows 95]].

The founder was [[Dmitriy Mendrelyuk]]. The magazine was based in Moscow.<ref name=lulu/> There are some other magazines founded by him like ''[[Business-Journal (magazine)|Business-Journal]]'' ({{lang-ru|Би́знес-Журна́л}}).

The typical audience of ''Computerra'' magazine was working men aged 25–34, with high [[social status]], high or medium income level, using computers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.computerra.ru/about/offline3.html|title="Computerra" audience|publisher=Computerra|language=Russian|date=March–July 2006|access-date=1 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813214109/http://www.computerra.ru/about/offline3.html|archive-date=13 August 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The difference of ''Computerra'' from other [[computer magazine]]s is that it writes not only about computer hardware and software, but includes philosophical thoughts about life, and "computer people" life above all.

[[Alexa.com]] traffic rank for Computerra.ru official website is 36,816 {{As of|2016|01|lc=on}}.<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/computerra.ru Computerra.ru traffic rank] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204072002/http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/computerra.ru |date=2007-12-04 }} at [[Alexa.com]]</ref>

== History ==
'''Editors-in-chief:'''
* [[Georgiy Kuznetsov]] (1995–1998)
* [[Eugene Kozlovsky]] (1998–2004)
* [[Sergey Leonov]] (2004–2006)
* [[Dmitriy Mendrelyuk]] (temporary in 2006)
* [[Vladimir Guriev]] 2007–2008
* [[Vladislav Biryukov]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.computerra.ru/ Computerra website]{{in lang|ru}}
* [https://old.computerra.ru/ old Computerra website]{{in lang|ru}}
* [https://old.computerra.ru/offline/ archive]{{in lang|ru}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080202124130/http://inside.computerra.ru/ Computerra Inside] {{in lang|ru}} – editorial blog

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