Children's Literature, the Leningrad Department of the Publishing House

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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, the Leningrad Department of the publishing house, was housed in the House of Books, then on 6 Kutuzova Embankment, it was opened in 1933, before 1963, it was called Detgiz (State Publishing House for Children's Literature). The Leningrad Department of Children's Literature continued the traditions of Leningrad Children's Department of the State Publishing House which functioned under the supervision of S. Y. Marshak from the middle of the 1920s. A galaxy of writers, editors (B. S. Zhitkov, A. I. Vvedensky, N. M. Oleynikov, E. L. Schwarz, L. K. Chukovskaya, T. G. Gabbe, A. I. Lyubarskaya, I. L. Andronikov et al.) and artists (V. V. Lebedev, E. I. Charushin, V. M. Konashevich, A. F. Pakhomov, N. A. Tyrs and others) formed round Marshak, V. V. Bianki, N. A. Zabolotsky, V. A. Kaverin, N. S. Tikhonov, M. M. Zoshchenko, D. I. Kharms, L. Panteleev, O. F. Bergholz et al. actively contributed to the publishing house. Many contributors and authors were subject to the repressions of the second half of the 1930s. The Leningrad Department of Children's Literature published works by Russian and foreign classics and contemporary writers (S. A. Voronin, Y. P. German, V. V. Golyavkin, G. Y. Gorbovsky, M. A. Dudin, V. V. Konetsky, O. K. Matyushin, V. F. Panova, Y. G. Tomin, L. V. Uspensky et al.). Annual anthologies Globus, I Want to Know Everything! were popular. The Leningrad subsidiary of the Children's Book House was opened in the structure of the publishing house in 1950. The publishing house Lyceum has been a successor of the Leningrad Department of Children's Literature since the beginning of the 1990s (it has been called Detgiz-Lyceum since 2002), it is housed together with the House of Children's Books on 78 Fontanka River Embankment.

References: Баренбаум И. Е., Костылева Н. А. Книжный Петербург - Ленинград. Л., 1986. С. 359-362.

D. N. Cherdakov. Andronnikov Irakly Luarsabovich
Bergholz Olga Fedorovna
Bianki Vitaly Valentinovich
Charushin Evgeny Ivanovich
Chukovskaya Lidia Korneevna
Dudin Mikhail Alexandrovich
Gabbe Tamara Grigorievna
German Yury Pavlovich
Golyavkin Viktor Vladimirovich
Gorbovsky Gleb Yakovlevich
Kaverin Veniamin Alexandrovich
Kharms Daniil (real name Yuvachev Daniil Ivanovich)
Konashevich Vladimir Mikhailovich
Konetsky Boris Ivanovich
Lebedev Vladimir Vasilievich
Lyubarskaya A.I.
Marshak Samuil Yakovlevich
Matyushina Olga Konstantinovna
Oleynikov Nikolay Makarovich
Pakhomov Alexey Fedorovich
Panova Vera Fedorovna
Panteleev L. (real name Eremeev Alexey Ivanovich)
Schwarz Evgeny Lvovich
Tikhonov Nikolay Semenovich
Tomin Yu.G.
Tyrsa Nikolay Andreevich
Uspensky Lev Vasilievich
Voronin Sergey Alexeevich
Vvedensky Alexander Ivanovich
Zabolotsky Nikolay Alexeevich
Zhitkov Boris Stepanovich
Zoschenko Mikhail Mikhailovich
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 78
Kutuzova Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 6
Баренбаум И. Е., Костылева Н. А. Книжный Петербург - Ленинград. Л., 1986 The House of Books, the Book Shop