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Academic Printing House (see Science, Printing House)
Academic Printing House (see Science, Printing House)
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ACADEMIC PRINTING HOUSE (12/28 Ninth Line of Vasilievsky Island) is one of the oldest printing houses of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the country. It was founded in 1727. Publications of the printing house include works by M. V. Lomonosov, L. Euler and other scientists, atlases, journals, dictionaries, fiction and translated publications. The Pulkovskaya Observatory and the Main Physical Observatory, the Russian Geographical Society, the Archaeological Society and other scientific societies are among long-standing customers of the printing house. In 1728-1878, St. Petersburg bulletin newspaper was printed here. For a long time the Academic printing house was the only enterprise in Russia printing secular books. The set of types of the Academic printing house grew constantly and that allowed to print editions in the Russian and foreign languages, including Eastern and ancient languages. The Academic printing house was the first to introduce music score printing in 1730. It played an important role in formulating Russian grammar rules and in formulating and resolving legal issues of publishing activities. From 1934 on, the printing house mainly published research of scientists in the North-Western Region of the country. It also published fiction - traditional collected works and books of Literary monuments series. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 the printing house stopped working, resuming operations in 1944. At the end of the 1980s, the printing house annually published some 500 titles. In 1990-98 the printing house was completely reconstructed, and that allowed publishing some 3 million copies of books, brochures, and journals annually, including science literature and fiction, illustrated editions, and books designed in the old style. The printing house has a section of rare books. In 1992 the printing house became officially known as Science Printing House. References: Лихтенштейн Е. С. Академическая книга // 400 лет русского книгопечатания, 1564-1964. М., 1964. [Т. 1-2]; Васильев В. И. Академическое книгоиздание на современном этапе // Науч. кн. 1998. № 1/2. С. 4-23. V. S. Solomko.
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9th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 12/28
Bibliographies
Васильев В. И. Академическое книгоиздание на современном этапе // Науч. кн., 1998
Лихтенштейн Е. С. Академическая книга // 400 лет русского книгопечатания, 1564-1964. М., 1964
Васильев В. И. Академическое книгоиздание на современном этапе // Науч. кн., 1998
Иванов О. П. Первая академическая - путь длиной в 270 лет// Научная книга, 1998. № 1-2
Васильев В. И. Академическому книгопечатанию - 265 лет // Вестн. РАН., 1992
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Russian Academy of Sciences
Sankt Peterburgskie Vedomosti (St. Petersburg Gazette), newspaper
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BOGDANOV Andrey Ivanovich (the 1690s - 1766, St. Petersburg), first Russian bibliognost, historian of St. Petersburg, linguist. Worked as a master at the Gunpowder Factory in St. Petersburg from the 1710s, and as a printer at the St
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BOLSHOY AVENUE OF VASILIEVSKY ISLAND, in 1720s-1780s - Bolshaya Prospektivaya or Bolshaya Pershpektivaya Street, in 1918-22 - F. Adlera Avenue, in 1922-44 - Proletarskoy Pobedy Avenue
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Printing Houses (entry)
PRINTING HOUSES. In 1711-21, four printing houses were opened in St. Petersburg by order of Tsar Peter the Great: the St. Petersburg Printing House, the Senate Printing House
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Publishing houses (entry)
PUBLISHING HOUSES. Publishing in St. Petersburg dates back to 1711, when Tsar Peter the Great ordered the St. Petersburg Printing House to be established. The first printed matter issued in St. Petersburg was Vedomosti newspaper
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