The Sound of the USSR

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Throughout almost the entire game, you’ll be accompanied by the sound of the radio—provided you choose to leave it on.

Unlike many games where radio exists simply as background ambience, every broadcast in Selsoviet is based on authentic Soviet radio recordings from the 1970s.

  • Real news
  • Real interviews
  • Real music
  • Real voices that millions of Soviet citizens once listened to

As you work behind the counter, you’ll hear the optimistic picture painted by state radio while watching a very different reality unfold in front of you.

Radio Receiver

The radio itself is based on the real “Океан-209” (Okean-209), also exported under the name Selena B210.

It can receive multiple wave bands, allowing you to tune into nearby broadcasts—or search for signals coming from much farther away.

Radio Radio ref

Radio Stations

Most of your time will be spent listening to All-Union Radio, the official state broadcaster heard across the Soviet Union.

But not every signal belongs to the government.

If you tune carefully—or simply get lucky—you may stumble upon something else:

  • Pirate radio operators
  • Illegal foreign broadcasts
  • Amateur radio enthusiasts
  • Other unexpected voices that were never meant to be heard

Those stations tell a very different story.

Authentic Recordings

One of our goals has always been to recreate not only how the Soviet Union looked, but also how it sounded.

Finding authentic broadcasts from 1976, restoring their audio quality, and navigating copyright restrictions has been one of the more unusual challenges during development.

We believe it was worth the effort. Because sometimes a voice on the radio can tell more about an era than any visual ever could.

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