Leningrad State Publishing House, publishing house

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LENIZDAT (Leningrad State Publishing House) (59 Fontanka River Embankment), a publishing house established in the end of 1917 as a publishing house for Petrograd Soviet; at that time quartered in Smolny. In 1919 it changed its name for Petrogosizdat (Petrograd State Publishing House), to adopt in 1924 the name of Lengiz (Leningrad State Publishing House), which formed a part of Lenoblizdat (Leningrad Regional Publishing House) in 1930; all the three publishing houses were situated at 42 Nevsky Prospect. The latter publishing house was reorganised into the Leningrad State Publishing House (Lenizdat) in 1938 (called the Publishing House of Leningrad Regional Party Committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union up until the late 1980s). The publishing house issued social and political books for the masses, books on history, culture, sports, a number of journals, and all the municipal, regional and many industrial newspapers. The publishing house owned five printing houses, the largest of which, the Volodarsky Printing House, continued to function even during the siege of 1941-44. From the 1950s it had been publishing works of Leningrad writers, later it issued the series Youth Library, The Modern Prose Library, Passages of the History of the Fatherland, Masters of the Russian Prose of the 20th Century, The Library of Folk Poetic Art, series of books about Leningrad - St. Petersburg (To a Tourist about Leningrad, The Architects of Our City, Eminent Men of Science and Culture in St. Petersburg - Petrograd - Leningrad, St. Petersburg Collection etc.). In 1963-92 the publishing house ran its departments in Pskov and Novgorod. Today, Leningrad State Publishing House is a public enterprise, a publishing and polygraphic complex which comprises a publishing house, the Volodarsky Printing House and the editorial office for Television, Radio and Newspaper.

References: Лениздат: Крат. ист. очерк. Л., 1967; Баренбаум И. Е., Костылева Н. А. Книжный Петербург - Ленинград. Л., 1986. С. 314-326.

M. V. Zakharova. Volodarsky V. (Moisey Markovich Goldstein)
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 59
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 42
Лениздат: Крат. ист. очерк. Л., 1967
Баренбаум И. Е., Костылева Н. А. Книжный Петербург - Ленинград. Л., 1986 Architects of Our City, publication series