Molodaya Gvardiya (publisher)

Molodaya Gvardiya (Russian: Молодая гвардия, lit. Young Guard) is an open joint-stock Russian publishing house, one of the oldest publishers in Russia, having been founded in 1922 during the Soviet era. From 1938 until 1992, it was responsible for publishing the magazine Vokrug sveta (Russian: Вокруг света, literally: "Around the World").

This article is about the publishing company. For other uses, see Young Guard.
Molodaya Gvardiya
The building of the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house
StatusActive
Founded10 October 1922 (10 October 1922)
FounderCentral Committee of the Komsomol
Country of originSoviet Union
Russia
Headquarters locationMoscow
Key people
  • Valentin Fedorovich Yurkin (CEO)
  • Andrey Vitalyevich Petrov (Director - Chief Editor)
Official websitegvardiya.ru

History
The Song of Hiawatha, 1931

1922 — The Molodaya Gvardiya publishing and printing association was founded in Moscow on the initiative of the Central Committee of the Komsomol on October 10. In the first year of the publishing house's operation, 71 books were published with a circulation of 584,000 copies.[1]

1930s — The publishing house began to produce not only books, but also newspaper and magazine products.

Yuri Gagarin at the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house on the day he signed for the printing of his book Psychology and Space. Photo by RIA Novosti, 1968.

In 1968, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin signed for the printing of his book Psychology and Space, written in collaboration with Vladimir Lebedev, which has been reprinted and translated into numerous languages. He also wrote the preface of the biography of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in the ZhZL series, in 1962.

1990s — The circulation of books was sharply reduced, with many series being discontinued.

2000s — A gradual process of reviving the activities of the publishing house was started.

In 2009, the ZhZL: Small Series was launched, which differs from the classic ZhZL series only in the volume of the material.

Book series
  • The Lives of Remarkable People (ZhZL) (Russian: Жизнь замечательных людей» (ЖЗЛ), tr. Zhizn' zamechatel'nykh lyudey)
  • The Lives of Remarkable People: The Biography Continues... (Russian: Жизнь замечательных людей: Биография продолжается..., tr. Zhizn' zamechatel'nykh lyudey: Biografiya prodolzhayetsya...)
  • The Lives of Remarkable People: Small Series (Russian: Жизнь замечательных людей. Малая серия, tr. Zhizn' zamechatel'nykh lyudey. Malaya seriya)
  • Living History: The Daily Life of Humanity (Russian: Живая история: Повседневная жизнь человечества, tr. Zhivaya istoriya: Povsednevnaya zhizn' chelovechestva)
  • You're On the Road, Romantic (Russian: Тебе в дорогу, романтик, tr. Tebe v dorogu, romantik)
  • Library of Modern Fiction (Russian: Библиотека современной фантастики, tr. Biblioteka sovremennoy fantastiki)
  • The Near Past (Russian: Близкое прошлое, tr. Blizkoye proshloye)[2]
  • Case Number... (Russian: Дело №…, tr. Delo №…)
  • Russia and the World (Russian: Россия и мир, tr. Rossiya i mir)
  • Century Prose (Russian: Проза века, tr. Proza veka)
  • Golden Giraffe (Russian: Золотой жираф, tr. Zolotoy zhiraf)
  • Arrow (Russian: Стрела, tr. Strela)
  • Literary Solitaire (Russian: Литературный пасьянс, tr. Literaturnyy pas'yans)
  • Pioneer - Means First (Russian: Пионер — значит первый, tr. Pioner — znachit pervyy)
  • Sport and Personality (Russian: Спорт и личность, tr. Sport i lichnost')
  • Eureka (Russian: Эврика, tr. Evrika)

Awards and prizes

References
  1. "Istoriya izdatelstva" История издательства [Publishing history]. Molodaya Gvardiya. 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  2. Molodaya Gvardiya Publishing House, readrussia.org. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  3. Книги — полпреды молодежи. Ogoniok Огонёк. No. 32. 1973. pp. 20–21.
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