Supergroup
Чат Fontanka
@fontanka_chat
On this record: Topic · Previous handles · Growth · Engagement · Cite this entry
28,392members
+4,102 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
4,948 online right now
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001232365073 |
|---|---|
| Type | Supergroup |
| Username | @fontanka_chat |
| Created | 29 May 2019 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 15 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 31 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 55 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 31 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/fontanka_chat |
Topic
National news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 69% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
Previous handles
Recorded in 2019 as “Чат Fontanka.ru” — the title held for this same channel (matched by Telegram id, not by handle) in the Pushshift Telegram Dataset, a third-party archive captured in 2019-2020, years before this register made its own first observation. CC BY 4.0, Baumgartner, Zannettou, Squire & Blackburn (2020), Zenodo. A third party’s dated snapshot, not a measurement this register made itself.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Members | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 31 Oct 2026, 18:58 | 28,392 | -9 |
| 30 Oct 2026, 21:38 | 28,401 | -15 |
| 29 Oct 2026, 21:58 | 28,416 | -43 |
| 28 Oct 2026, 20:10 | 28,459 | -15 |
| 27 Oct 2026, 19:59 | 28,474 | -64 |
| 26 Oct 2026, 16:25 | 28,538 | -14 |
| 25 Oct 2026, 19:47 | 28,552 | -34 |
| 24 Oct 2026, 16:25 | 28,586 | -28 |
| 23 Oct 2026, 16:56 | 28,614 | -70 |
| 22 Oct 2026, 15:39 | 28,684 | -99 |
| 21 Oct 2026, 07:45 | 28,783 | -75 |
| 20 Oct 2026, 08:36 | 28,858 | +8 |
| 19 Oct 2026, 08:45 | 28,850 | -363 |
| 18 Oct 2026, 11:58 | 29,213 | +4,347 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 11:55 | 24,866 | +34 |
| 16 Oct 2026, 12:31 | 24,832 | +40 |
| 15 Oct 2026, 12:28 | 24,792 | +9 |
| 14 Oct 2026, 11:00 | 24,783 | -7 |
| 12 Oct 2026, 23:39 | 24,790 | -13 |
| 8 Oct 2026, 12:21 | 24,803 | first reading |
Engagement
No public post preview. We read this entry on 15 August 2026 and Telegram serves no public post stream for it — the channel has previews switched off, or it is a group or bot with no readable feed. Views, reactions and engagement rates cannot be measured from the outside for an entry in this state, so we publish none. Subscriber counts above are unaffected.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 31 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Чат Fontanka” (@fontanka_chat), 28,392 members as measured 31 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/fontanka_chat.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.