Read Russia at LBF 2012
Participating publishers
Academia Rossica
Academia Rossica is the official organiser of Read Russia, the Russian national stand at the LBF. AR is also an agent for leading Russian authors, publishes an international review of contemporary Russian culture and awards the Rossica Translation Prize for the best new translation of a Russian title into English.
Contact:
Alexander Godovanets - alex@academia-rossica.org
+44-207-287-5712
All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature
All-Russia Library for Foreign Literature’s Rudomino Book Centre publishes Russian and foreign classics in Russian and other languages. Authors include Virginia Woolf, Federico García Lorca, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Alexander Pushkin. The Library’s Big Read Programme aims to build cultural bridges across Russia and the world and to develop people’s education.
Contact:
Ekaterina Genieva - genieva@libfl.ru
+7-495-915-3621
ARCA Publishers
As a publishing partner of the State Hermitage St Petersburg, ARCA is oriented towards producing publications on art belonging to a vast range of genres and movements. The search for new ideas and artistic approaches has led to the creation of a new generation of books for children and adults.
Contact:
Polina Ermakova - arca.publishers@gmail.com
+7-812-495-7143
AST
AST is one of Russia's largest publishing houses and focuses in particular on promoting new authors. The company has over 30,000 titles and publishes a wide range of books, including Russian and foreign classics, contemporary prose, genre fiction, children's books, business textbooks, reference books, dictionaries, books on art and science.
Contact:
Andrei Baran - apo@ast-press.ru
+7-495-265 84 97
Azbooka-Atticus
Azbooka-Atticus Publishing Group is a leading Russian and Ukrainian book publisher. The Group publishes books under the following imprints: Azbooka, Inostranka (translated fiction), CoLiblri (Russian authors and non-fiction titles), Machaon (children books).
www.atticus-group.ru / www.azbooka.ru
Contact:
Alesya Kulish - akulish@atticus-group.ru
+7-495-933-7601
Banke, Goumen & Smirnova Literary Agency
A major primary full-service literary agency handling Russian authors both in Russia and internationally. Fiction in the list ranges from bestselling genre works to upmarket literary fiction. The list of authors includes internationally recognised and bestselling authors Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Max Frei, Igor Sakhnovsky, Mikhail Elizarov, Mikhail Gigolashvilli, Andrei Rubanov amongst others.
Contact:
Julia Goumen - info@gs-agency.com
+7-812-248-9524
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre is a new Russian noncommercial organisation, directed at promoting the development of the Institute of Presidency in Russia. The socio-cultural Presidential Centre includes a museum, exhibition and discussion center, a branch of the Boris Yeltsin’s Presidential library and Centre for information and education activities and expertise.
Contact:
Inna Shatalova - centre@fonde.ru
+7-495-229-7589
The Debut Prize Foundation
Established in 2000 Debut Prize Foundation is the most authoritative Russian institution spotlighting gifted young writers in every literary genre. The DEBUT Prize launched its international publishing program in 2010 and released several anthologies in various languages including two in English, published by Glas New Russian Writing.
Contact:
Nalalia Perova - Perova09@gmail.com
+7-499-616-4240
Europe Publishing House
Europe Publishing House was established in 2005 with the aim of promoting political education, fortifying the institutions of civil society and the political system of Russia as a European state. Europe Publishing House sees its mission in reviving the genre of topical political books in Russian within a wide spectrum of formats.
Contact:
Vladimir Soldatov - info@europublish.ru
+7-495-629-5297
Frontiers Literary Agency
We present the series of books by brothers Ivan and Alexander Egorov, the Russian scientists and writers: The Phenomenon of the Emergence: from Reality to Meaning. Their Paradigm of Emergence opens new possibilities for a more thorough consideration of the process taking place in social and spiritual domains.
Contact:
Marina Shermukhamiatova - tsmarina70@mail.ru
+7-499-159-5524
GLAS New Russian Writing
The premier showcase for contemporary Russian writing in English translation, GLAS has been discovering new writers and rediscovering under-appreciated past masters since 1991. More than 100 names are represented. The most comprehensive English-language source on Russian writing today – a must for libraries and all those who love good writing.
Contact:
Natalia Perova - Perova09@gmail.com
+7-495-441-9157
Iskusstvo-XXI
Since 2002, Iskusstvo–XXI has gladdened the hearts and eyes of readers with high quality the art books. The primary publications are the books of The Russian Émigré Artists (Project manager Natalia Gordeeva), memoirs, diaries and biographies of the artists of all times and nations.
Contact:
Tatiana Bodnaruk - art21@ropnet.ru
+7-499-241-6465
Knizhniki
Knizhniki is both a publishing house and a unique Russian-based agency specialising in wholesale orders of literature on Jewish theme in the Russian language. Book orders can be placed directly by contacting our agency representatives or via our on-line store.
Contact:
Y.B. Ratner - info@knizhniki.ru
+7-495-663-2298
KompasGuide Publishing House
If there are books which speak honestly and in an interesting manner of the most complicated issues, describing life in different parts of the world and destroying the walls of misunderstanding and internal deafness, these are the books of KompasGuide publishing house (Russia).
Contact:
Marina Kadetova - books@kompasgid.ru
+7-495-624-2428
Limbus Press
Limbus Press was established in 1990 and therefore is one of the oldest privately owned publishing houses in post-Soviet Russia. From the very beginning of its activity Limbus has been dealing with high quality literature – both Russian and foreign.
Contact:
Polena Belomlinsky - p.belomlinsky@limbuspress.ru
+7-812-712-6706
Moscow City Publishing Programmes
Moscow City Publishing Programmes offer support for the development of important publications about Moscow, focusing in particular on significant dates in Moscow’s history and the lives of prominent Muscovites. Over 450 titles have been published since 1993, including historical books, belles-lettres, encyclopedias, poetry, dictionaries, guides, collected works and folios.
Contact:
Valeriy Prokhorov - dov@post.mos.ru
+7-495-633-6222
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is the first state museum in Russia focused exclusively on the art of the 20th and 21st Centuries. The Museum collection contains over 10,000 works and includes Russian avant-garde, underground art of the Soviet period, Russian contemporary art, as well as works by renowned international artists.
Contact:
Nina Bereznitskaya - info@mmoma.ru
+7-495-694-6660
Northern Pilgrim Publishing House
Northern Pilgrim issues books devoted to cultural heritage, architecture, arts and crafts and folk art, as well as catalogues of the collections of Russian Museums, scientific monographs of art and medieval art. Guides on the museum’s compositions, convents and cathedrals of Russia.
Contact:
Roman Maximov - npilgrim@mail.ru
+7-916-197-5141
Palace Editions & The State Russian Museum
Palace Editions is the official publisher of the State Russian Museum, the world’s largest collection of Russian art dating from the 9th to the 20th Century, including work by artists such as Ilya Repin, Marc Chagall and Kazimir Malevich. Titles are published in several languages, including Russian and English.
Contact:
Joseph Kiblitsky - kiblitsky@t-online.de
+ 7-812-315-4312
Russian Publishers Association
The Publishers Association of Russia (PAR) is a non-governmental professional public organisation, which was established on the initiative of publishers in 1990. The Publishers Association of Russia is primarily dedicated to the protection of rights and interests of Russian publishers and the development of national publishing.
Contact:
Konstantin Chechenev - aski@rol.ru
+ 7-495-305-4506
Avant-Guard - Sergey Gordeev Publishing Project
Sergey Gordeev’s publishing project ‘Russian avant-guard’ is the unique programme of an edition of books on subjects connected with the art and architecture of the 1920s and 30s. The books are academic in nature and are published in small circulation.
Contact:
Dmitry Mordvintsev - design@akopov.ru
+ 7-495-694-6293
The Russian Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications
The Russian government agency responsible for the development of the publishing industry and information resources and technologies in Russia. The Russia stand is part of a wider programme launched by FAPMC to promote Russian literature abroad and build stronger links between Russian and international publishers.
Contact:
Vladimir Grigoriev - info@fapmc.ru
+ 7-495-694-1177
The Russian Library Association
Editions on local and international experience of the work of libraries, reference books, handbooks and guidelines, information editions, periodicals of the headquarters of the Russian Library Association and its branches, guidelines and recommendations on librarianship of international organisations, legal and regulative materials on librarianship, catalogues, bibliography and local studies.
Contact:
Tatiana Nizhnik - publisher@nlr.ru
+7-812-710-5771
The Russian National Library
The National Library of Russia is the unchallenged leader in librarianship, bibliography and book publishing history in Russia. The library primarily publishes bibliographies but also titles on library studies, book studies, humanities reference books, collection catalogues and facsimile editions. The library issues and popularises its unique archive of Russian literature.
Contact:
Tatiana Nizhnik - publisher@nlr.ru
+7-812-710-5771
The Russian State Library
The Russian State Library is the largest library publisher in Russia. One of the reference directions of publishing is the popularisation and introduction of unique rare books stored in Library for scientific purposes. Special attention is given to bibliographic indexes, catalogues, collections of academic papers and monographs, reference and encyclopedic literature.
Contact:
Ekaterina Nikonorova - nikonor@rsl.ru
+7-495-695-9482
Slovo
Established in Moscow in 1989, SLOVO is one of the first major Russian private independent publishing houses, Loved by readers, respected by competitors and trusted by partners. A renowned publisher of high-quality non-fiction for a sophisticated audience. One of the first Russian companies to publish books on fashion, style and art.
Contact:
Natalya Avetisian - slovo@slovo-pub.ru
+7-495-911-6872
The State Public Historical Library of Russia
Bibliographic indexes, catalogs of book exhibitions, memoirs, reference, academic, educational literature, republishing of historical literature of the library. Rare editions in electronic form.
Contact:
Mihail Afanasiev - info@shpl.ru
+7-495-625-6514
The State Tretyakov Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery is the national treasury of Russian fine art and one of the greatest museums in the world, which annually publishes books and albums, catalogues of the museum collections and exhibitions, reports and collections of academic research, as well as booklets and reproductions.
Contact:
Marina Elzesser - tretyakov@tretyakov.ru
+7-495-951-2833
Tatlin Publishers
TATLIN was founded in 2001. We are the leading specialised publisher of books, magazines and newspapers on architecture, art and design in Russia. Our professional team makes high-quality publications for international specialists. We are looking for book and magazine distributors and wholesalers.
Contact:
Julia Melnikova - melnikova@tatlin.ru
+7-912-289-9068
Union of Handmade Books
Union of Handmade Books produce unique books in various formats and themes, from contemporary to medieval poetry and prose of different countries. Some books are bilingual (Russian and the original language)
Contact:
Svetlana Nikolskaya - vopros23@yandex.ru
+7 495-964-0101
Ves Mir
Publisher of Russian and translated books on social sciences and humanities. The publisher of the Institute of Europe, Institute of Sociology, Institute of General History. The publisher of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Gorbachev-Foundation. Co-publisher of international organizations: UN, UNESCO, FAO, WHO, ILO, Council of Europe, IMF, OECD, World Bank.
Contact:
Oleg Zimarin - zimarin@vesmirbooks.ru
+7 495-739-0971
Victor T. Slipenchuk
Viktor Slipenchuk, a well-known Russian poet and novelist, professes the invincibility of good philosophy. His writings have been translated and published in Japan, China and Ukraine. A play, based on his novel ‘Zinziver’, was staged in the Theater of Nations in Moscow. In 2007, one Russian library was named after him.
Contact:
Diana Benevolskaya - Benevolskaya@metropl.ru
+7 495-933-3300
Yasnaya Polyana Publishing House
During the last twelve years, Yasnaya Polyana Publishing House has published various types of books, magazines and stationery. Yasnaya Polyana aims to preserve and continue the traditions of Russian book manufacture. Specialising in Tolstoy-related literature, the publishing house renders various prepress services such as photography, typography and design.
Contact:
Michael Kudryashov - ua3pkb@mail.ru
+7-487-517-6119
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