vokrug sveta (, literally: "around the world") is a russian geographic magazine. it is the longest running magazine in the russian language. the first issue was printed in saint petersburg, in december 1861, almost thirty years before the establishment of the "national geographic magazine". thus, it is one of the oldest popular science magazines in the world. release of "vokrug sveta" was suspended twice: from 1918 to 1927, during the russian revolution, and from 1941 to 1945, during world war ii. nevertheless, the magazine always resumed and continues to be published to this day.