Publishing Trends in Russia, the Top Projects and Authors of 2022

The author analyses participation of the Russian State Library (RSL) in the International Fair of Intellectual Literature non/fictio№ 24, which took place on December 1—5, 2022. The paper presents the review of new scientific publications of the RSL “Pashkov Dom” Publishing House. The top list of the non/fictio№ 24 includes two new publications of the RSL “Pashkov Dom”: the book devoted to L.M. Koval “The Keeper of the History of Leninka” (2021) and “The Art of Valery Pokatov: Pages of Life and Creative Work” (2021).

In 2022, the Russian State Library celebrated the 160th anniversary of the opening of the Moscow Public Museum and the Rumyantsev Museum. The anniversary stand of the RSL presented publications on the history of the library, catalogues of the collections and exhibitions, issues of the journals “Observatory of Culture”, “Bibliotekovedenie” (Library Science), etc. The leaders of sales were the collection of articles “‘This very first seal was beautiful: round, dimensional, pureʼ. The book culture of the era of Peter the Great” (2022), the publication of the comedy by A.S. Griboyedov “Woe from Wit” (2022), the album-catalogue by S.P. Utva “Gifts of the Imperial House to the Moscow Public Museum and Rumyantsev Museum” (2022).

Of particular note is the monograph “Essays on the Development of Bibliographic Activity of the Russian State Library” (2022) and the second edition of the collective work “Scientific Research in Libraries: Subject Themes, Organization, Presentation of Results” (2023).

The article summarizes the publishing trends in Russia formulated by the experts on December 2, 2022 at the discussion “Digitalization of book production and the future of the industry, skills of forming a comprehensive publishing project” in the framework of non/fictio№ 24.

The significant event of 2022 was the 17th season of the “Big Book” National Literary Award, established by the Centre for the Support of Russian Literature. The solemn ceremony of awarding the prize winners took place on December 8, 2022 at the Pashkov House of the Russian State Library.

1. International Book Fair Non/fictioNo 24 Broke Record Attendance, GoDLiteratury.RF: Internet portal. Available at: https://godliteratury.ru/articles/2022/12/11/iarmarka-nonfictio24-otchitalas-o-rekorde (accessed 25.12.2022) (in Russ.).

2. Levin G.L. (ed.) Ocherki razvitiya bibliograficheskoi deyatel’nosti Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki: monografiya [Essays on the Development of Bibliographic Activity of the Russian State Library: monograph]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom Publ., 2022, 734 p.

3. Samarin A.Yu. (ed.) Nauchnye issledovaniya v bibliotekakh: tematika, organizatsiya, predstavlenie rezul’tatov: monografiya [Scientific Research in Libraries: Its Subject, Organization, Presentation of Results: monograph]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom Publ., 2023, 326 p.

4. Khranitel’ istorii Leninki: Kniga o Lyudmile Mikhailovne Koval’ [Keeper of the Russian State Library History. The Book about Lyudmila Mikhailovna Koval]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom Publ., 2021, 317 p.

5. Fedorova O.V., Fedorov V.N. Iskusstvo Valeriya Pokatova: stranitsy zhizni i tvorchestva [The Art by Valery Pokatov: The Pages of Life and Creativity]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom, 2021, 271 p.

6. “Prekrasnaya byla siya samaya pervaya pechat’: krugla, merna, chistA”: Knizhnaya kul’tura ehpokhi Petra I: materialy Mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii (Moskva, 2—3 iyunya 2022 g.) [“Beauty of the Very First Civil Font Came from Round, Measured and Clarity”: Book Culture in the Epoch of Peter the Great. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference (Moscow, June 2—3, 2022)]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom, 2022, 375 p.

7. Griboedov A.S. Gore ot uma: komediya v chetyrekh deistviyakh v stikhakh [Woe from Wit: A Four-Act Comedy in Verse]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom, 2022, 172 p.

8. Utva S.P. Dary Imperatorskogo Doma Moskovskomu publichnomu muzeumu i Rumyantsevskomu muzeumu: al’bom-katalog [Donations of the Imperial House to the Moscow Public Museum and Rumyantsev Museum: album catalog]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom Publ., 2022, 77 p.

9. Winners of the 17th Season of the Big Book National Literary Award Announced, Tsentr podderzhki otechestvennoi slovesnosti: Natsional’naya literaturnaya premiya “Bol’shaya kniga”: ofits. sait [Center for the Support of Domestic Literature: National Literary Award “Big Book”: official website]. Available at: https://bigbook.ru/news/detail.php?ID=32614 (accessed 25.12.2022) (in Russ.).

10. Winners of the 17th Season of the Big Book National Literary Award, Rossiiskaya gosudarstvennaya biblioteka: ofits. sait [Russian State Library: official website]. Available at: https://www.rsl.ru/ru/all-news/pobediteli-xvii-sezona-literaturnoj-premii-bolshaya-kniga (accessed 25.12.2022) (in Russ.).

11. Pavel Basinsky Became the Winner of the Big Book Award for his Novel about Anna Karenina, TASS — Russian news agency. Available at: https://tass.ru/kultura/16542209 (accessed 25.12.2022) (in Russ.).