Children's literature (publishing)

Created in accordance with the decree of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on September 9, 1933 on the basis of the children's sector of the publishing house “Young Guard” and the school sector of the State publishing house of fiction called “Detgiz” . The publishing house was created in two cities at once - in Moscow and Leningrad.

Active participation in the organization and work of the publishing house was taken by Maxim Gorky , Samuel Marshak , Korney Chukovsky , Tamara Gabbe , Lidia Chukovskaya , Alexandra Lyubarskaya , Arkady Gaidar .

The first editor-in-chief of the publishing house was Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak , who gathered such authors as M. Ilyin , Boris Zhitkov , Victor Shklovsky , Solomon Lurie , L. Panteleev , Daniil Kharms , Alexander Vvedensky , Alexey Tolstoy , Eugene Schwartz , Matvey Bronstein and others. In 1933 , in the first year of Detgiz’s work, 168 titles of books with a total circulation of 7,744 thousand copies were published.

In 1931 and in 1937 the editors of the Leningrad Detizdat were defeated: some employees ( Lidia Chukovskaya ) were fired, others were arrested ( Tamara Gabbe ), shot, and died in custody ( Daniil Kharms , Alexander Vvedensky ).

This publishing house was called the "university" for illustrators of children's books. Through the lessons of the artist Vladimir Lebedev , hundreds of St. Petersburg artists passed, who later became masters of book graphics: Yuri Vasnetsov , Alexey Pakhomov , Nikolai Tyrsa , Vladimir Konashevich , Evgeny Charushin , Nina Noskovich , Valentin Kurdov , Maria Butrova and others ...

The publishing house has repeatedly changed its name: “DETGIZ” (1933) - “DETIZDAT” (1936) - “DETGIZ” (1941) - “Children's Literature” (1963).

In the 1980s Publishing house "Children's Literature" was a republican publishing house directly subordinate to the State Committee for Publishing of the RSFSR . In 1979-1990 publishing performance indicators were as follows:

In 1991, the publishing house split up; the Moscow branch retained the name "Children's Literature", and the St. Petersburg branch - "The State Republican Publishing House of Children and Youth Literature" Lyceum "", since 2002 - "DETGIZ", since 2007 - OJSC "Publishing House of Children's Literature" DETGIZ "" .

Among the regular authors of Children's Literature Publishing House were Sergei Mikhalkov , Irina Tokmakova , Vera Chaplina , Jacob Akim , Roald Sef , Valentin Rasputin , Vasily Belov , Boris Vasiliev , Grigory Baklanov , Alexander Solzhenitsyn , Vladimir Krupin , Yuri Polyakov , Vladimir Zheleznikov , Vladislav Krapivin ; literary scholars, critics, scientists: Nikolay Skatov , Lev Anninsky , Felix Kuznetsov , Svyatoslav Belza , Lyudmila Saraskina , Yuri Lebedev , Aza Takho-Godi , Victor Chalmaev , Alexander Gulin, and others; Leading graphic artists: Boris Diodorov , German Mazurin , Yuri Ivanov , Igor Ilyinsky , Anastasia Arkhipova , Nika Golts , Stepan Yarovoy , Mark Petrov , Victor Chizhikov , Leonid Kuznetsov and others.

Currently, the publishing house annually publishes 130 titles of books with a circulation of 5 to 10 thousand copies. ^[9]

• " My first books "
• “ Book by book ”
• " Library of world literature for children "
• School Library
• Library of Adventure and Science Fiction
• “ Know and be able ”
• " Pioneer Library "
• Adventure Library
• “ People. Time. Ideas
• The Golden Library
• " Military library of a student ." From 1972 to 1989, 35 books from this series were published. Later, many of them were reprinted. The standard circulation of 100 thousand copies.

• 1937 - Grand Prix diploma at an exhibition in Paris;
• 1958 - Gold Medal of the Brussels Exhibition,
• 1979 - with a diploma “The Golden Letter of a Beautiful Book” at the exhibition of book art in Leipzig,
• 1982 - awards at the international book exhibition in Bratislava.
• 1996 - I degree diploma at the Russian International Book Fair.
• 1999 - Diploma of the 2nd degree in the nomination "The best publishing plan and its implementation" of the International competition "Classics of Russian literature in modern publications for children" (series "School library");
• 2006 - Diploma for the best publication that promotes the spiritual education of children and youth of the competition of the Association of Book Publishers (ASKI) "Best Books of the Year" for the series "School Library".
• 2007 - T. Kryukova ’s book “Unlearned Lessons”, published by the publishing house, became the winner of the All-Russian competition for the best children and youth book “Scarlet Sails”.

• Publishing House "Children's Literature" on the site " Science Fiction Laboratory "
• The Leningrad branch of the publishing house "Children's Literature" on the site " Science Fiction Laboratory "
• Website of the Detgiz Publishing House