Nauka (russian: Наука, lit. trans.: ''Science'') is a Russian

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of academic books and journals. Established in the

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in 1923, it was called the USSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House until 1963. Until 1934 the publisher was based in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, then moved to

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. Its logo depicts an open book with

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above it. Nauka was the main scientific publisher of the USSR. Structurally it was a complex of publishing institutions, printing and book selling companies. It had two departments (in

and

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) with separate printing works, two main editorial offices (for physical and mathematical literature and

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literature) and more than 50 thematic editorial offices. Nauka's main book selling company ''Akademkniga'' ("Academic Book" in English) had some 30 trading centers in all major cities of the country. Nauka was the main publisher of the USSR Academy of Sciences and its branches. The greater part of Nauka's production were

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s. It also published thematic collected works, reference books, textbooks and foreign literature in translation. In 1972 Nauka published 135 scientific journals, including 31 physical and mathematical, 24 chemical, 29 biological and five popular science journals ('' Priroda'' (Nature), '' Zemlya i Vselennaya'' (Earth and the Universe), '' Khimia i zhizn'' (Chemistry and Life), '' Kvant'' (Quantum), and '' Russkaya rech'' (Russian speech). Book series published by Nauka have included the Languages of Asia and Africa series. The English distributor of the Nauka publications is MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica together with Pleiades Publishing and

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. Nauka was the largest scientific publishing house in the USSR and in the world at one time (in 1982).«Наука»
// Книговедение: энциклопедический словарь / Ред. коллегия: Н. М. Сикорский (гл. ред.) и др. — М.: Советская энциклопедия, 1982. — 664 с.

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