The Volgo-Vyatskoye Book Publishing House was a Soviet state publishing house, founded in 1963 in Gorky and dissolved in 1999.[1] For more than three decades, it was the main outlet for books by local authors and for local-history literature about the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Activity
The publishing house produced fiction, local-history works, and popular science literature. Its catalog included collections of poetry by Nizhny Novgorod poets: "Kolokol" (The Bell, 1986) and "Kupol" (The Dome, 1990) by Elena Kryukova. The publisher's catalog also included "Boldino Autumn," a collection of poems, narrative poems, little tragedies, tales, fairy tales, letters, and critical articles by A. S. Pushkin, written in the selo of Boldino in Lukoyanov Uyezd of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate in the autumn of 1830.[2][1] Among its local-history publications were the books of Yu. A. Adrianov, "Nizhegorodskaya otchina" (The Nizhny Novgorod Patrimony; book 1, 1971; book 2, 1984; book 3, 1989) and the monograph by S. L. Agafonov, "The Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin: Architecture, History, Restoration" (1976).[1]
From 1965 to 1995, the publishing house's chief artist was Vakhtang Zakharovich Veshapuri, a graduate of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, painter, and graphic artist.[1]
Closure
The publishing house was dissolved in 1999.[1] After its closure, Nizhny Novgorod authors turned to Moscow publishers and local printing facilities, in particular Nizhpoligraf, which in 1998 published Elena Kryukova's collection "Sotvoreniye mira" (The Creation of the World).[1]
In the early 1990s, during the transition to a market economy, the publishing house expanded its repertoire to include translated foreign fiction: in 1991–1992, several volumes of the popular French novel series about Angélique by Anne and Serge Golon were published in Nizhny Novgorod: "Angélique" (1991), "Angélique and Her Love," "Angélique in the New World," and "Indomitable Angélique" (all 1992).[3]
It was formed by the merger of the Gorky Book Publishing House and the Kirov Book Publishing House, with the latter continuing to operate as a branch in the city of Kirov.[2]
The publishing house was located at: Nizhny Novgorod, Kremlin, Building 4; it was assigned the ISBN prefix 978-5-7420.[2]
Sources
- Wikipedia (ru) — Volgo-Vyatskoye Book Publishing House (archive)
- web.archive.org — The Volgo-Vyatskoye Book Publishing House was established in 1963 through the merger of the Gorky Book Publishing House and the Kirov Book Publishing House. At the same time, the (archive)
- libnav.ru — In the early 1990s, during the transition to a market economy, the publishing house expanded its repertoire to include translated foreign fiction: in 1991–1992 in Nizhny