Volgo-Vyatskoe Book Publishing House was a Soviet state publishing house Gorky and dissolved in 1999.[1] For more than three decades it served as the principal venue for publishing books by local authors and regional-studies literature about the Nizhny Novgorod area.
Activities
The publishing house produced fiction, regional-studies, and popular-science literature. Its catalogue included poetry collections by Nizhny Novgorod poet Elena Kryukova: Kolokol (1986) and Kupol (1990).[1] Among its regional-studies titles were the books by Yu. A. Adrianov, Nizhegorodskaya Otchina (vol. 1, 1971; vol. 2, 1984; vol. 3, 1989), and Agafonov, "The Kremlin: Architecture, History, Restoration" (1976).[1]
From 1965 to 1995, the publishing house's chief artist was Vakhtang Zakharovich Veshapuri — a graduate of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, painter, and graphic artist.[1]
Closure
The publishing house was dissolved in 1999.[1] After its closure, Nizhny Novgorod authors redirected their work to Moscow publishing houses and local printing facilities — in particular, Nizhpoligraf Elena Kryukova's collection Sotvoreniye Mira (The Creation of the World).[1]
In the early 1990s, during the transition to a market economy, the publishing house expanded its catalogue to include translated foreign fiction: in 1991–1992 several volumes of the popular French novel series by Anne and Serge Golon about Angélique were published in Nizhny Novgorod — Angélique (1991), Angélique and Her Love, Angélique in the New World, and Angélique the Unconquered (all 1992).[2]
Sources
- libnav.ru — In the early 1990s, during the transition to a market economy, the publishing house expanded its catalogue to include translated foreign fiction: in 1991–1992 in Nizhny
- Wikipedia (ru) — Volgo-Vyatskoe Book Publishing House (archive)