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Москоуавто

@moscowauto

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194,419subscribers

-11,775 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 100,000–316,228.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1002018418314
TypeChannel
Username@moscowauto
DescriptionОригинальное медиа об автомобильной культуре и технологиях. Редакция: @moscowauto_bot Сотрудничество: @magicdennis Канал включён в реестр: https://clck.ru/3Fasm2
CreatedBetween 1 November 2023 and 31 May 2024 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live10 November 2026
Measurements held66
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 10 November 2026
On Telegramt.me/moscowauto

Topic

Automotive — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 8 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% 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.

Growth

194,419206,194200,306.56 August 202610 November 2026
66 measurements spanning 97 days, net -11,775. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 192,653–207,960 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 66
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
10 Nov 2026, 16:34194,419-202
9 Nov 2026, 03:48194,621-129
8 Nov 2026, 00:06194,750-82
6 Nov 2026, 23:27194,832-121
5 Nov 2026, 23:56194,953-121
4 Nov 2026, 20:41195,074-108
3 Nov 2026, 23:51195,182-120
2 Nov 2026, 21:02195,302-90
1 Nov 2026, 23:47195,392-96
31 Oct 2026, 22:56195,488-94
31 Oct 2026, 02:09195,582-93
30 Oct 2026, 05:37195,675-82
29 Oct 2026, 08:31195,757-139
28 Oct 2026, 07:17195,896-114
27 Oct 2026, 04:29196,010-296
26 Oct 2026, 00:58196,306-517
25 Oct 2026, 01:46196,823-112
24 Oct 2026, 03:30196,935-87
23 Oct 2026, 06:54197,022-122
22 Oct 2026, 08:05197,144first reading

Engagement

714 posts held, back to 4 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 196 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
3.12%
avg views ÷ 194,419 subscribers
Avg views / post
6,070
237 posts measured
Reaction rate
1.11%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
237
of 714 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 10 November 2026
Posts held714 (4 August 2026 – 10 November 2026)
Views total1,438,390
Reactions total16,027
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken11 Nov 2026, 02:29 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

What this channel posts

Photos
≈10,100
Videos
≈2,790
Links
≈3,300

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 11 November 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.

Video runtime
2h 12m
Average length
32s

Measured directly from 248 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.

Reaction mix

49,029 reactions across 701 posts, in 8 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 21.7% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
😁10,61521.7%
❤9,68619.8%
👍8,21116.7%
🔥7,10314.5%
😭3,9628.08%
🗿3,6867.52%
🤯3,4997.14%
🫡2,2674.62%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 714 of the 714 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 49,982 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 714 most recent posts we hold, published 4 August 2026 to 10 November 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Advertising

Ad load
2.52%
18 of 714 posts carry an ad marker
Regulatory tokens
18
posts carrying an erid · 17 distinct tokens
Median views · ads
5,130
over 18 measured posts
Median views · rest
6,240
over 696 measured posts

An ad marker, not a judgement about a post. A post is counted here because it carries one of two explicit markings: an erid token, which Russian law has required on paid placements since 2022 and which is issued against a specific advertising contract, or a #реклама / #ad hashtag in the body, which is the channel declaring it itself. The first is documentary; the second is a self-declaration and is weaker. No classifier reads the text and decides — nothing on this site guesses that a post is an advertisement.

This is a floor, and it can only ever be a floor. A channel that runs paid placements without marking them produces no marker for us to count, and an unmarked ad is indistinguishable from an ordinary post on the public surface. The ad load above therefore means “the share of posts that declared themselves”, never “the share of posts that were paid for”. A low figure is not evidence of a channel that runs few ads.

Both figures are medians, and no ratio between them is published. Each is a view reading that actually occurred on a post, picked by percentile_disc rather than averaged, so one viral post cannot move it and no interpolated value is invented between two readings. They are printed side by side with the count behind each rather than as a ratio: an ad and an ordinary post are not otherwise matched — for topic, for length, for hour of day — so the gap between them is a description of two groups and not the effect of one being an ad.

Advertising tokens recorded on this entry
eridPostsFirst seenLast seen
2SDnjbt1vvf23 September 20262 October 2026
2SDnjcGF6ZR118 September 202618 September 2026
2SDnjcHn3De130 October 202630 October 2026
2SDnjccyeTd115 October 202615 October 2026
2SDnjchr7Ab16 October 20266 October 2026
2SDnjdBKnSY128 October 202628 October 2026
2SDnjdBPud5124 September 202624 September 2026
2SDnjdCvEHZ121 September 202621 September 2026
2SDnjdDAapT127 August 202627 August 2026
2SDnjdYLNS8120 October 202620 October 2026
2SDnjdivBZD112 October 202612 October 2026
2SDnje4EEkc123 October 202623 October 2026

A token repeated across several posts is one advertising contract placed more than once, which is what the identifier is for. The strings are reproduced exactly as they appeared in the post or in its click-through URL and are not validated against any registry — we record the marker a channel published, and whether it resolves to a real contract is a question for the register that issued it. 5 further tokens are held for this entry and not listed here.

Measured over the 714 most recent posts we hold, published 4 August 2026 to 10 November 2026. Views are the latest single reading held for each post, and any reading at or above 1,000 is rounded by Telegram to three significant figures.

Recent posts

Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 46 of 237 posts held from the last 30 days (19.4%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).

10 Nov 2026, 21:01 UTC≈1,600 views34 reactionsread 11 November 2026
Photo

Бывший дизайнер Audi создал футуристичный универсал для Polestar — шведы показали электрический концепт Formula 2030. Машина получила 22-дюймовые диски, двери без центральных стоек и необычный салон: при включении автопилота экран поднимается, а руль отодвигается от водителя. Вот какими должны быть машины будущего. @moscowauto

🔥16❤10🗿4👍2🫡1😭1

10 Nov 2026, 18:54 UTC≈3,300 views57 reactionsread 11 November 2026
Video

Байкер на Ducati чудом выжил после безумного обгона в США — мотоциклист вылетел на встречку, проскочил под комбайном и в итоге врезался в легковушку. Гонщик отделался сломанной ногой и признал, что совершил глупость. Ролик с его трюком уже набрал более 30 млн просмотров. «Пункт назначения» отменяется. @moscowauto

❤33🗿16🔥4👍3🫡1

10 Nov 2026, 18:10 UTC≈3,540 views27 reactionsread 11 November 2026
Photo

Новые кроссоверы разметают в Китае — гибридные Skynomad N70 и N90 разошлись тиражом 27 тысяч машин за октябрь, всего через несколько недель после запуска. Новинки уже предлагают и в России — цены под заказ стартуют от 5,9 млн рублей, хотя в Китае за них просят от $31 тысячи. Старшая версия выдаёт 416 сил и обещает до 1705 км запаса хода. @moscowauto

👍12🤯9❤4🫡1😁1

10 Nov 2026, 16:36 UTC≈4,050 views31 reactionsread 11 November 2026
Video

Перекупы в России нашли железный способ пробить баннерную слепоту. Такой аппетитной «четвёрка» еще не была. @moscowauto

❤14👍5😁4😭4🗿3🫡1

10 Nov 2026, 15:12 UTC≈4,160 views63 reactionsread 11 November 2026
Photo

Шиномонтажники и дети ненавидит его за этот простой трюк. @moscowauto

😁40👍13🔥5❤4🫡1

10 Nov 2026, 14:08 UTC≈4,630 views63 reactionsread 11 November 2026
Photo

Российский спорткар за 250 млн рублей выставили на продажу — уникальная Marussia B2 появилась на одной из площадок. Из характеристик: 3,5-литровый V6 на 300 сил, задний привод и автоматическая коробка. С момента выпуска в 2010 году машина проехала 6000 км. Бюджетно 🥺 @moscowauto

👍25🗿20😭12❤5🫡1

10 Nov 2026, 12:30 UTC≈5,020 views39 reactionsread 11 November 2026
Photo

Дороги в Питере лучше, чем в Москве — теперь официально. Это стало известно из свежей статистики, пишет РИА Новости. Лидером стала Ивановская область, где в нормативном состоянии находится 94,2% дорог. Также в первой пятёрке оказались Удмуртия, Брянская область, Марий Эл и Севастополь. Московская и Ленинградская область не попали в десятку лучших — при этом Москва и Питер туда вошли. Вот и думайте теперь. @moscow…

😁23🔥5🗿5❤4🤯1🫡1

10 Nov 2026, 09:43 UTC≈5,500 views55 reactionsread 11 November 2026
Video

Две маникюрщицы не смогли разъехаться на пустой парковке и устроили ДТП — аварию года засняли в Башкирии. Осталось понять, кто виноват 🫠 @moscowauto

😁39👍10❤3🔥2🫡1

10 Nov 2026, 07:43 UTC≈5,810 views56 reactionsread 11 November 2026
Photo

Rockstar выставили настоящий суперкар из GTA VI на продажу — этот Grotti Cheetah от West Coast Customs. Под капотом стоит атмосферный V8 объёмом 4,9 литра, а кузов оформлен в фирменных цветах Vice City. Цена вопроса — $1,3 млн (107 млн рублей). Идеальный вариант на зиму. @moscowauto

❤43🔥5👍4🫡4

9 Nov 2026, 21:00 UTC≈5,460 views69 reactionsread 10 November 2026
Video

Водитель из Челябинска показал, как не нужно ездить на летней резине при первых заморозках. Контраварийное вождение, основы. @moscowauto

😁52👍10❤2🗿2🫡2🔥1

9 Nov 2026, 18:22 UTC≈5,780 views62 reactionsread 10 November 2026
Photo

Машины из GTA VI воссоздали в реальности — тюнинг-ателье West Coast Customs совместно с Rockstar построило сразу 6 автомобилей из новой игры. В коллекцию вошли Ferrari Testarossa, Lamborghini Huracan, McLaren Senna, Corvette C8 и два американских маслкара. Respect +. @moscowauto

👍36❤17🔥6🫡3

9 Nov 2026, 17:08 UTC≈5,790 views50 reactionsread 10 November 2026
Video

Умельцы с Кавказа превратили «Гранту» в спортивную ГАЗель — пикап получил удлинённую кабину, усиленные рессоры и задние дисковые тормоза. Билеты до Тольятти им, срочно. @moscowauto

😁34❤8👍3🗿3🫡2

Showing the 12 most recent of 714 posts we hold for @moscowauto. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Posts edited after publishing

@moscowauto edited 1 post after it first published — the same permalink now carries different wording than the one this register originally read, caught because our own crawl held a copy of the earlier text.

An edit is not deception. Typo fixes, price updates and corrections look exactly like this too — this register can tell you the wording changed and when, not why. How this is measured.

First edit seen
4 September 2026
Most recent edit
4 September 2026

Forward network

Republishes

Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

Named by 10 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

Names

Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one

Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.

Авто.ру
@carsnosleep · 484,184
#1
Маркетинг нефильтрованный
@costperlead · 108,250
#2
Сегодня в тренде
@trends · 1,112,806
#3
Эксплойт
@exploitex · 2,022,997
#4
Провод
@provod · 1,561,289
#5
Ты в тренде или уходи
@trendsetter · 1,504,263
#6
Москвач • Новости Москвы
@moscowach · 3,879,362
#7
о чём говорят коллеги
@kollegi · 186,268
#8
ок, согласовано
@notypicmarketing · 707,978
#9
Rozetked
@rozetked · 646,921
#10
Москва+
@moscowplus · 1,209,756
#11
в IT и выйти
@techmedia · 1,445,414
#12
Трендач
@trendach · 1,576,267
#13
808
@rbtshki · 192,609
#14
КудаМосква
@kudamsk24 · 225,168
#15
Первый Московский
@mosguru · 3,404,643
#16
Рестарт
@remedia · 667,251
#17
Москва сегодня
@moscow · 2,788,929
#18
CodeCamp
@codecamp · 177,629
#19
Передали коллегам
@collegi · 134,238
#20
TrendWatching
@trendwatching24 · 1,375,035
#21
Mash
@mash · 3,140,033
#22
Код.ру
@d_code · 405,444
#23
Москва радует • Афиша
@Moscow_happy · 403,400
#24
Москва на максималках
@mosjournal · 374,551
#25
Техномотель
@technomotel · 3,217,569
#26
Раньше всех. Ну почти.
@bbbreaking · 1,975,436
#27
коллеги, не сутультесь
@bardachko · 540,582
#28
Типичная Москва
@moskva_only · 1,358,077
#29
бумеры смотрят телек
@boomers_TV · 156,897
#30
Моя Москва
@moscowmi · 1,290,161
#31
Новости Москвы
@moscowmap · 2,622,185
#32
NN
@naebnet · 2,177,859
#33
ТОПЛЕС
@toplesofficial · 498,473
#34
Нейродвиж
@neuraldvig · 288,660
#35
Не баг, а фича
@bugfeature · 552,118
#36
Яндекс
@yandex · 601,037
#37
Московский ревизор
@mosreview · 81,291
#38
Baza
@bazabazon · 1,557,057
#39
Газета.Ru
@gazetaru · 228,941
#40
Марзаганов вещает
@marzaganoff · 73,761
#41
Сбер
@sberbank · 727,507
#42
ТЕХНО: Яндекс про технологии
@techno_yandex · 218,569
#43
Droider
@droidergram · 101,278
#44
Атом Пульс
@atom_pulse · 10,422
#45
Артемий Лебедев
@temalebedev · 968,108
#46
Движитал
@dvizhitall · 463,893
#47
concertzaal
@concertzaal · 890,859
#48
Кабинет инвестора
@investingcorp · 421,266
#49
Maisto
@igormaisto · 102,887
#50
GamersHub
@gamershubrus · 31,219
#51
GigaChat
@official_gigachat · 303,004
#52
Москва 2033
@mosheadlines · 83,261
#53
Ilya Strekal
@Strekalovsky · 101,333
#54
Альфа-Банк
@alfabank · 981,016
#55
Вокругтехно | @Hi-Tech
@vokrugtech · 22,370
#56
Что там, Москва?
@newsmoscow · 860,796
#57
В гостях у Булыча
@bulkin_live · 884,195
#58
FEMALE MOSCOW
@female_moscow · 931,172
#59
Айбелив Айкенфлаев
@ibelieveicanf · 38,203
#60
Yaplakal.com
@yaplakal · 419,820
#61
MDK
@mudak · 524,131
#62
Директор зоопарка
@bossofthezoo · 3,818
#63
ВИЛСАКОМ РЕД / WYLSACOM RED
@wylsared · 1,088,291
#64
Big Geek
@biggeekru · 602,510
#65
Романцев768 | Romancev768
@Romancev768 · 786,768
#66
Бэкдор
@whackdoor · 1,538,229
#67
Не баг, а фича
@bugnotfeature · 1,161,851
#68
Джейпег Малевича
@malepeg · 463,713
#69
Русский ритейл и бизнес
@retailrus · 281,555
#70
Hamster Kombat Announcement
@hamster_kombat · 19,576,556
#71
Naked Science
@nsmag · 245,244
#72
Куб маркетинга
@cubemark · 58,906
#73
Двач
@dvachannel · 969,331
#74
Rozetked Plus
@rozetkedplus · 72,309
#75
nerds
@nerds · 410,643
#76
Новости Walt (ранее Кошелёк)
@walt_news_cis · 1,086,188
#77
Пекарня
@pekagame · 1,117,922
#78
Дай Откусить
@dauotkysit · 270,620
#79
СберБизнес
@sberbusiness · 234,986
#80
Мир PlayStation
@world_playstation · 308,852
#81
Алексей Шевцов
@jolybells · 357,371
#82
Дудь
@yurydud · 849,561
#83
Мой Компьютер
@mknewsru · 214,518
#84
Technodeus
@technodeus2023 · 96,520
#85
Дмитрий Медведев
@medvedev_telegram · 1,688,832
#86

Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 11 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

Москва радует • Афиша
@Moscow_happy · 403,400
Telegram ranks this channel #46 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 10 August 2026
Провод
@provod · 1,561,289
Telegram ranks this channel #56 of 91 here — alongside 90 others — read 8 August 2026
Маркетинг нефильтрованный
@costperlead · 108,250
Telegram ranks this channel #58 of 93 here — alongside 92 others — read 14 August 2026
Вокругтехно | @Hi-Tech
@vokrugtech · 22,370
Telegram ranks this channel #66 of 73 here — alongside 72 others — read 19 September 2026
таскам время, потехе час
@poteha_time · 428,204
Telegram ranks this channel #69 of 73 here — alongside 72 others — read 10 August 2026
Трендач
@trendach · 1,576,267
Telegram ranks this channel #71 of 89 here — alongside 88 others — read 8 August 2026
Айбелив Айкенфлаев
@ibelieveicanf · 38,203
Telegram ranks this channel #74 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 30 August 2026
ТЕХНОПАРК
@technopark_ru · 66,560
Telegram ranks this channel #80 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 25 August 2026
Ты в тренде или уходи
@trendsetter · 1,504,263
Telegram ranks this channel #87 of 93 here — alongside 92 others — read 8 August 2026
о чём говорят коллеги
@kollegi · 186,268
Telegram ranks this channel #88 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 12 August 2026
Куб маркетинга
@cubemark · 58,906
Telegram ranks this channel #90 of 91 here — alongside 90 others — read 22 August 2026

This channel appears in 11 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

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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 10 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Москоуавто” (@moscowauto), 194,419 subscribers as measured 10 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/moscowauto.

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