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*'''October 25, 1990-1995:''' On an off-white background, a thick black line moves onto the screen from the left side, going right. It begins vibrating horizontally as it continues moving, and then a gray ball comes in from the left and begins bouncing along the line at a fast pace. It then falls off as the line stops moving. Then it cuts to a large close-up of the ball from a bird's eye view as it falls down into the center and disappears. Two closely-spaced black rings then shoot out from the center of the screen, which is immediately followed by a black circle that fills the screen to create a black background. Then, a stone mask, which is of Chinese Taoist philosopher Guo Xiang and a three-pawed toad sitting on top of his head, fades in. Finally, "'''ВИD'''" fades in and shines underneath in large bronze letters, which is Russian for "VID", although it uses a Latin "'''D'''" rather than a Cyrillic "Д", resulting in the text looking like "'''BND'''".

** A peculiar sub-variant, found on the <u>very first episode of ''{{abbr|Поле Чудес|Field of Wonders}}''</u> (the Russian version of ''Wheel of Fortune'') that aired on October 25, 1990, exists, in which the logo suddenly speeds up when the ball falls to the center, before returning to its normal speed after "'''ВИD'''" fades in. This is possibly due to an editing/compression error.

** A <u>silent</u> version of the presentation variant has white text saying "представляет" under the mask, with or without the "'''ВИD'''" above it.

** Another version of the presentation variant has the 5-note fanfare, which soon gets cut off by Rasbash saying "представляет" when the "'''ВИD'''" appears. Sometimes the five-note fanfare played then the voice play so that when the mask fades out and "представляет" fade in the voiceover starts.

* From <u>1999 to 2001</u>, a special Christmas variant was used that featured the mask fading in via radial blur and slowly zooming in. As it zooms, it slowly grows a beard and Santa hat complete with a happy grin. Below the mask, it reads "'''С новым годом!'''" ("S novym godom!", meaning "Happy new year!") in a slab-serif font, and "'''год'''" changes to "ВИD" in the corporate font. The music is a menacing chord fading from the closing theme.

* A spoof of the logo was seen on ''<u>Оба-на!</u>'' beginning with a man from the show superimposed over the ball-and-stick segment (either flashing or reduced animation), panicking and freaking out over it, and then sliding down as the ball falls off the line. It then proceeds normally, until a few seconds after the mask is seen, it then fades into a gray-scale version of the face of Russian writer/comedian Igor Ugolnikov, who says in an electronically distorted voice in Russian, "{{abbr|ВИД, ВИД. ничего не видно по вашему виду!|VID, VID. Nothing is viewed from your view!}}" and then smiles as the opening theme plays. At the end of the show, Ugolnikov says, "{{abbr|ВИД, ВИД. ''Оба-на!'' вам сейчас покажу по вашему виду.|VID, VID. Oba-na is our dominant companion.}}" in the normal voice and smiles again (with a chuckle).

* Before ''<u>Otdyhay!</u>'' in <u>1992-1994</u>, the standard variant plays out as normal, but the "'''ВИD'''" wordmark fades in with the mask (which is in the high-contrast monochrome tone used for the 8th logo, but colored gold) and the mask says in a high-pitched voice "{{abbr|Хех! Отдыхай однако!|Hey! Relax, though!}}"). before smiling. The mask part is animated with pixel-based computer graphics.

* There is a variant where the "ВИD" text is in a different font.

* On the <u>1995 ''{{abbr|Поле Чудес|Field of Wonders}}'' video game for the ZX Spectrum</u>, there is an 8-bit rendering of the logo with "'''ВИD'''" in its normal font, made up of several white lines and a yellow line bouncing up and down rapidly inside the text before eventually stopping in a horizontal position.

'''Visuals:''' There is a black room with projectors and an off-white shawl with Jin Chan partially exposed. A man (played by an unknown actor) comes to the shawl, greets everyone, saying "Я снимаю!" ("I'll take it off!"), and starts to take the shawl off. The VID mask is under it. When the shawl is removed, the man goes offscreen and the removed shawl turns into the word "'''ВИD'''". The projectors disappear and the name zooms in further.

'''Visuals:''' On a black background, with the video of the moving, tinfoil-like plasticine background surrounded by a shining orange outline, the text "Вы смотрите" (meaning "You are watching") in orange writes itself in on the top inside the rectangle, while the gray plasticine mask and "'''ВИD'''" below, are forming from the background. Then the background stops moving, and the screen zooms on the mask and the text, and everything flashes with colorful lights, making the picture brighter and more colorful, making the mask beige. The plasticine background and the wordmark iris out until it reaches the mask, revealing the black background with the same wordmark as the 1st logo, and the plasticine mask becomes gray and high-contrast, and it finally zooms on the rectangle, while the mask becomes normal. The finished product is the last frame of the 1st logo, but with "Вы смотрите" above the mask.

'''Visuals:''' On a black background, a disc spins and goes in a vertical move from bottom to top. A keyboard-looking shape with random shapes appears. The disc zooms in and a white blurry star appears. Videos of Pole Chudes slide in one by one, and the videos turn into blue squares, followed by a screen appearing. Each clip plays part of an episode that spells out the name of the company. While this part is playing, the text "'''телекомпания'''" in orange and in cursive writes itself. When the person says the Russian letter Д, the letter D appears in the third box. When another person says the Russian letter В, the letter В appears in the first box. And finally, when another person says the Russian letter И, the letter И appears in the second box. It then cuts to the different faces of Leonid Yakubovich (the host of Pole Chudes). When the last face appears, the entire background turns black. The face turns gray and turns into the mask from before. The blue boxes disappear and the text turns into the original text from before.

'''Visuals:''' On a black background with a golden frame, there is a lump of plasticine in the frame. Human hands appear, and they sculpt a newspaper. The black background slowly fades into a white background while the newspaper is being modeled. Then the hands sculpt a radio from the newspaper. The hands then press a button on the radio then to a television. During the modeling of the television, "Лучше один раз увидеть" ("It is better to see once" in English) is inscribed below the frame. Then it cuts to the hands modeling the right antenna of the television. Then goes back to the original position of the camera. The hands press the center small button and turns the big button. Then the screen shows the tail end of the 1st logo. The background turns back to black. It zooms into the television screen when the color of its background changes. Then the "Лучше один раз увидеть" shrinks and then transforms into "'''ВИD'''" with a flash.

'''Trivia:''' If one looks closely, the edges of the 1st logo sticking out of the TV can be seen.

'''Audio:''' A pop tune with newspaper and stock sound effects as the newspaper is almost formed (which is actually [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lnxJnRJZZk "Tied Up" by Yello]). When the text transforms into "'''ВИD'''", the last two notes of the 2nd logo's fanfare are heard.

'''Visuals:''' On a black background, there is an orange rectangular border with "Производство телекомпании" (in the Pragmatica font), "'''ВИD'''" (in the weird serif font) and "по заказу ОРТ" (in the same Pragmatica font). Below it, there's "Наш адрес в INTERNET:" and a web address. After a few seconds, the screen cuts to the shortened variant of the first logo.

*Another variant, which was used after <u>''Женские истории'' in 2000-01</u>, has the top text "Производство телекомпании '''ВИD''' по заказу ОРТ" in a rectangular and the bottom text "Наш адрес в INTERNET: <nowiki>http://www.vid.ru/</nowiki>" in the Compact font.

'''Visuals:''' On a space background, three blurry colored lines fade in and move about. Then, a static-filled box shaped like a TV tube fades in and slowly zooms into the screen while 'displaying' blue-tinted clips from what seem to be more VID programs. A diamond-shaped flash then fills the screen as the TV then zooms back to reveal 8 more TV boxes surrounding it displaying titles of VID shows on a multicolor background (with the monochrome VID mask on the top center TV). The TVs zoom out two more times, with 49 screens total. The image blurs while the text "'''Взгляд''' '''10 ЛЕТ''' "(roughly meaning "Viewing 10 years") fades in, with the monochrome VID mask on the top and smaller text reading "Новый ВИD телевидения" ("'''New''' '''VID''' '''Television'''") on the bottom.

'''Visuals:''' Against the black background, a gold line stretches outwards horizontally in the center of the screen, resembling a CRT television powering up. The line opens up and glows, containing the word "ТЕЛЕКОМПАНИЯ" in a black font (this word is also seen scrolling in faint large letters within the bar); this then shrinks into a dot, from which arises a thin black ring, containing within it the infamous stone mask (which has a thick black outline around it). The mask stops in the center of the screen, much smaller than before, and the ring fades to the glowing ring. The word "'''ВИD'''" appears. Some lines close in around the mask, and a faint gold line appears at the bottom-right; the word "{{abbr|ПРЕДСТАВЛЯЕТ|PRESENTS}}" is typed in thereupon in the black typewriter font. All of this happens in a span of about five seconds.

'''Variant:''' Sometimes a <u>slowed-down</u> version of the logo plays, but before the faint yellow line and "ПРЕДСТАВЛЯЕТ" appearing. It cross-fades to a close-up of a waving Russian flag with "При финансовой поддержке Федерального агентства по печати и массовым коммуникациям" ("With the financial support from Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications") written in front of it, but also would say "При финансовой поддержке Министерства Российской Федерации по делам печати и телерадиовещания (With financial support of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Press and Television and Radio Broadcasting") with a different Russian flag.

'''Visuals:''' Same concept as 11th logo but modified a bit. Against the cerulean gradient background, a gold line stretches outwards horizontally in the center of the screen, resembling a CRT television powering up. The line opens up and glows, the word "телекомпания" is scrolling in faint large letters within the bar; on the center of the screen, the new brown 3D version of the mask appears out of thin air instantly and zooms in and a thin black ring pulsates like a ripple. The mask stops in the center of the screen, as in the previous logo, and the circle reaches an optical gold circle. The word "'''ВИD'''" appears in the same typeface used in the first logo, some lines close in around the mask, words "телекомпания" and "представляет" appear over and under the mask respectively. Some light illuminates the mask from the right.

'''Variant:''' Like the 11th logo, it sometimes cross-fades to the close-up of the waving Russian flag with the text "При финансовой поддержке Федерального агентства по печати и массовым коммуникациям" ("With the financial support from Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications") after the finished product is displayed. At first, it was Impact. Later, the font is in either basic font (fade in) or techno like.

'''Visuals:''' A reddish-brown toad walks on top of an off-white sculpture, which turns out to be a brand new version of the mask logo (which more closely resembles Guo Xiang's actual death mask), and particles fly around the mask as it smiles. The word "'''ВИD'''" appears in the Arial typeface as the toad turns into becoming part of the off-white stone mask sculpture.

*Sometimes, the logo fades out and the white spaced-out text "ПРЕДСТАВЛЯЕТ" in a tall Times New Roman font fades in on a black background.

* Starting in <u>2020</u>, the company name is now just "'''ВИD'''" again. It's also much larger and the text fades in, rather than just being there when the logo cuts.