Detskaya Literatura (, lit. "Children's Literature"), formerly Detgiz and Detizdat, is a Soviet and Russian

publishing house Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

for

children's literature Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reade ...

. It was established on September 9, 1933 by the

Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),. Abbreviated in Russian as КПСС, ''KPSS''. at some points known as the Russian Communist Party (RCP), All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet ...

on the basis of Molodaya Gvardiya's children's imprint. The company was initially called Detgiz (, lit. "The State Children's Publishing House"). The company had offices in Moscow and

Leningrad Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

. The first

chief editor An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's Editing, editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is hel ...

was

Samuil Marshak Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (alternative spelling: Marchak) (; 4 July 1964) was a Soviet writer of Belarusian Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and adults. He translated the sonnets and some other of the works of Willi ...

. In 1933 Detgiz published 168 titles. In 1937 the headquarters of Detgiz was destroyed, some employees (such as

Lydia Chukovskaya Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya ( rus, Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская, p=ˈlʲidʲɪjə kɐrˈnʲejɪvnə tɕʊˈkofskəjə, a=Lidiya Kornyeyevna Chukovskaya.ru.vorb.oga; – February 7, 1996) was a Soviet and Russian writ ...

) were fired, others were arrested, imprisoned or executed by a firing squad. The publisher's name was changed numerous times, from Detgiz (1933) to DETIZDAT (1936) to Detgiz again (1941) to Detskaya Literatura (1963). In 1991 the publishing house was divided into the Moscow department, called Detskaya Literatura, and the Saint Petersburg department, called Lyceum or "Lyceum: The State Republican Publishing House for Children and Youth Literature" (), which later became DETGIZ. In the 1980s, the publishing house "Children's Literature" was a republican publishing house directly subordinate to the RSFSR State Committee for Publishing. In 1979-1990 the indicators of the publishing activity of the publishing house were as follows:

Book series

* ''My First Books'' () * ''One Book After Another'' () * ''The World Literature Library for Children and Youth'' () * ''School Library'' () * ''Library of Adventures and Science Fiction'' () * ''Learn and Know How'' () * ''Library of a Pioneer'' () * '' Library of Adventures'' ()"What Soviet Children Read"
'' The USSR'', No. 6 (57), June 1961, p. 32. Retrieved 27 February 2022. * ''People. Times. Ideas'' () * ''Golden Library'' () * ''Schoolboy's Military Library'' ()

References

External links

The official website of the Moscow department

The official website of the Saint Petersburg department
{{Authority control Publishing companies of the Soviet Union Book publishing companies of Russia Publishing companies established in 1933 Children's book publishers Companies based in Moscow 1933 establishments in Russia