The Central Ural Publishing House (), formerly the Sverdlovsk Publishing House (), was a Soviet and Russian

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head-quartered in

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...

. It was established in 1920. In 1930–1940 it was the largest book publisher in the

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History

The company was established in 1920. It was initially called Uralgosizdat (, lit. "The Ural department of the State publisher"). It published

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brochures, posters, leaflets, the first

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for adults in the Soviet Union. In 1922 it was transformed into the

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Uralkniga (Уралкнига). Bella Kun became the chairman of the board. In 1934 it was renamed to the Sverdlovsk Publishing House, abbreviated as Sverdlgiz (). In 1963 it was rebranded as the Central Ural Publishing House, with the

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taking over. The

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department was opened. It was active till late-1990s. The number of published titles gradually decreased through the years, e.g. 104 books were released in 1979, but only 26 in 1997.

Publications

* ''Boyevye Rebyata'' (children's almanac) * ''

Uralsky Sovremennik ''Uralsky Sovremennik'' (, lit. "contemporary Ural"), later known as simply ''Ural'' (), was a literary almanac published in the Soviet Union from 1938 to 1957. The magazine was based in Sverdlovsk. It mostly published the works of the authors from ...

'' * '' Uralsky Sledopyt'' (magazine)

Notable employees

* Bazhov Pavel Petrovich – Russian writer and publicist; * Khorinskaya Elena Evgenievna – Soviet and Russian poet, writer, translator; * Salinsky Afanasy Dmitrievich – Russian Soviet playwright; * Kun Bela – journalist, Hungarian

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revolutionary and politician.

References

External links

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The official information about Central Ural Publishing House
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