5TV Russian
5TV is a television channel based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Director General: Alexey Brodskiy, Producer General: Ljubov Sovershaeva.
Channel 5 succeeded the nationwide Leningrad TV channel dating back to 1938, which was immensely popular throughout the Soviet Union during the last years of Perestroika with such programs as 600 Seconds of its editor-in-chief, Alexander Nevzorov. However, later the channel lost much of its popularity.