Soviet Writer, the Leningrad Department of the Publishing House

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SOVIET WRITER, the Leningrad Department of the publishing house (it was housed in the House of Books, from the 1980s it was situated on 36 Liteiny Avenue), was established in 1934, it inherited the publishing principles and traditions of the Publishing House of Writers in Leningrad (1927-34), it paid attention to works by contemporary Soviet writers. In 1934-40, it published books by A. S. Grin, M. E. Kozakov, V. M. Sayanov, M. L. Slonimsky, M. M. Zoshchenko, N. K. Chukovsky, L. N. Rakhmanov, Y. N. Tynyanov, K. A. Fedin, O. D. Forsh et al.; in the years of the siege it published books by O. F. Bergholz, N. S. Tikhonov, V. A. Kaverin, Slonimsky et al.; in postwar years - books by F. A. Abramov, D. А. Granin, Y. P. German, M. A. Dudin, V. K. Ketlinskaya, V. F. Panova, E. L. Schwarz, V. S. Shefner et al., and also research work by B. V. Tomashevsky, A. S. Dolinin, P. N. Berkov, D. S. Likhachev and other literary critics. Debut works by Leningrad writers were published in the anthologies Young Leningrad and Day of Poetry. The literary union arranged at the publishing house at the end of the 1940s - beginning of the 1950s by Е. I. Naumov played an important role in the postwar literary life of the city, it was here that V. V. Konetsky, A. M. Volodin, V. V. Golyavkin, G. A. Goryshin et al. were trained in the 1950s. The publication of the Big and Small series of the Poet's Library (established in 1933 on the initiative of M. Gorky at the Publishing House of Writers in Leningrad) marked by high level of scientific preparation of the texts became an important achievement of the Leningrad Department of the Soviet Writer. In 1992 the Leningrad Department of the Soviet Writer ceased operations and was succeeded by the publishing house Petersburg Writer. The series New Poet's Library is published by Petersburg Publishing House Academic Project.

References: Белов С. В. "Издательство писателей в Ленинграде" (1927-1934) // Книжное дело Петербурга - Петрограда - Ленинграда. Л., 1981. С. 126-136. (Сб. науч. тр. / ЛГИК; Т. 58); Шиперович Б. Я. Издательство "Советский писатель": Библиография, 1934-1984. М., 1985; Баренбаум И. Е., Костылева Н. А. Книжный Петербург - Ленинград. Л., 1986.

D. N. Cherdakov. Abramov Fedor Alexandrovich
Bergholz Olga Fedorovna
Berkov Pavel Naumovich
Chukovsky Korney Ivanovich
Dolinin (real name Iskoz) Arkady Semenovich
Dudin Mikhail Alexandrovich
Fedin Konstantin Alexandrovich
Forsh Olga Dmitrievna
German Yury Pavlovich
Golyavkin Viktor Vladimirovich
Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)
Goryshin Gleb Alexandrovich
Granin Daniil Alexandrovich
Grin Alexander Stepanovich
Kaverin Veniamin Alexandrovich
Ketlinskaya Vera Kazimirovna
Konetsky Boris Ivanovich
Kozakov Mikhail Emmanuilovich
Likhachev Dmitry Sergeevich
Naumov Evgeny Ivanovich
Panova V.V.
Panova Vera Fedorovna
Rakhmanov Leonid Nikolaevich
Sayanov Vissarion Mikhailovich
Schwarz Elena Andreevna
Shefner Vadim Sergeevich
Slonimsky Mikhail Leonidovich
Tikhonov Nikolay Semenovich
Tomashevsky Boris Viktorovich
Tynyanov Yury Nikolaevich
Volodin Alexander Moiseevich
Zoschenko Mikhail Mikhailovich
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 36
Белов С. В. "Издательство писателей в Ленинграде" (1927–1934) // Книжное дело Петербурга – Петрограда – Ленинграда. Л., 1981
Шиперович Б. Я. Издательство «Советский писатель»: Библиогр., 1934-1984. М., 1985
Баренбаум И. Е., Костылева Н. А. Книжный Петербург - Ленинград. Л., 1986