Publishing houses in the Soviet Union were a series of publishing enterprises which existed in the Soviet Union.

Centralization

On 8 August 1930, the Sovnarkom of the

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

(RSFSR) established the state publishing monopoly, OGIZ (, , Union of the State Book and Magazine Publishers), subordinated to . At its core was the former . Other

union republic The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics ( rus, Сою́зные Респу́блики, r=Soyúznye Respúbliki) were national-based administrative units of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ...

s followed the same pattern. During the era of centralization the names of the most publishers contained the acronym "" ("giz") standing for "" (', i.e., "State Publisher", S.P.).

List

Early publishers

As of 1 January 1930, there were 995 publishers in the

RSFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

alone. * «» (New Moscow) * «» (Down with Illiteracy) * «» * «» () (World Literature (Publishing House)) (1919–1924)

Period of centralization

* () (State Publishing House) * «» (Land and Factory) * «» (The Moscow Worker) * «» (The Young Guard) * (Great Soviet Encyclopedia) * «» (The Worker for Enlightenment) * * * (State Agriculture Publishing House) * * «» (The Atheist) * «

Academia An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

» * «» (Federation) * «» (Nedra) * * (Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR) * (Publishing House of the Communist Academy) * (Publishing House of the NKVD) * * OGIZ ** ' () - stands for "State Publishing House for

Children's Literature Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's ...

" ** ' (, Publisher for Social-Economic Literature) - *** Renamed as , State Publishing House of Economic Literature ** ' () - stands for "State Publishing House of Student and Pedagogical Literature" ** ** () ** ** ** - ( State Publishing House for Literary Works) ** ** ** ** ** ** (Lexicographic-Encyclopedic Publishing House) ** ** ** (Physical Culture and Tourism) * () (Publishing House for Party Literature) ** Renamed into * (Fizmatgiz/ Физматгиз) * ( Nauka) (= Science) * (

RIA Novosti RIA Novosti (russian: РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN () or RIA (russian: РИА, label=none) is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency. On 9 December 2013 by a decree of Vladimir Putin it was liquidated and its asset ...

) - for

news News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to event ...

* ( Mir (= world) Publishers) * (

Progress Publishers Progress Publishers was a Moscow-based Soviet publisher founded in 1931. Publishing program Progress Publishers published books in a variety of languages: Russian, English, and many other European and Asian languages. They issued many scientific ...

) * GTTI/ГТТИ * Spin-offs of ** (), later decentralized into the ONTI () that included GONTI (): *** () aka Государственное издательство технико-теоретической литературы ( ( ГИТТЛ / GITTL) *** *** *** *** *** etc. ** **

''Perestroika'' publishers

* (RKP) * (Izdatelstvo fiziko-matematicheskói i tejnicheskói literatury ) () (1990–1998)

List of printing houses

* «» (Polygraph Book) * «» (Polygraph)