Book Festivals in Siberia and the Far East: Preserving Traditions and Role in Promoting Books and Reading

The paper characterizes the development of the book festival movement in recent decades in the eastern regions of Russia. The application of formal-logical and comparative-historical methods allowed us to expand the previously studied aspects of the functioning of book fairs. The main directions of the modern regional book festival movement were revealed: library book festivals; projects organized on private and public initiative in collaboration with governmental authorities; federal book festival projects. Long-term (“Book Salon” — Ulan-Ude, since 1996; “Pechatny Dvor” — Vladivostok, since 1997; “Published in Altai” — Barnaul, since 2006; Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair (2007—2021), etc.) and recently appeared (“BookMart” — Irkutsk, since 2019; “Book Square” — Kemerovo, since 2021, etc.) regional projects are analyzed. The federal initiatives of 2023 are characterized: “Red Square. Far East” (Vladivostok), “Reading August” of the All-Russian interregional network library-publishing festival movement “Book Beacons of Russia”. The increasing sustainability of the projects due to co-financing by federal and regional authorities, public organizations, sponsors, grant and subsidy support was established. The main trends of the regional book and festival movement were identified. Unresolved problems that can become points of growth are revealed. The relevance and significance of the study of the conditions of development and the current state of the book festival movement in the Siberian Federal District and the Far Eastern Federal District are determined by their growing communicative potential and its influence on the formation of the regional cultural field.

1. Weber M. Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan Publ., 2018, 272 p. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71510-0.

2. The Prospects of Book Exhibitions: analytics, Assotsiatsiya knigoizdatelei Rossii: ofits. sait [Russian Publishers Association: official website]. 2015, December 18. Available at: http://aski.ru/ru/analytics/id-3 (accessed 18.03.2024) (in Russ.).

3. Aleksandrova N.O. Book Fairs in Intercultural Cooperation, Nauchnye shkoly. Molodezh’ v nauke i kul’ture XXI veka: materialy Mezhdunarodnogo nauchno-tvorcheskogo foruma [Scientific Schools. Youth in Science and Culture of the 21st Century: Proceedings of the International Scientific and Creative Forum, Chelyabinsk, November 7—8, 2019]. Chelyabinsk, 2019, pp. 286—289 (in Russ.).

4. Maslennikova A.N. Children’s Book Festivals in Modern Russia, Partitsipatornaya biblioteka i shkola: sbornik statei [Participatory Library and School: collected articles]. Moscow, Avtorskii Klub Publ., 2022, pp. 411—431 (in Russ.).

5. Vasilyeva G.M. Book Fairs in the Development of the Regional, International Cultural Sector and the Formation of Reading Communities, Regional’nye kul’turnye strategii v sovremennom mire: materialy III Vserossiiskoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii (s mezhdunarodnym uchastiem), Perm’, 11—12 maya 2023 g. [Regional Cultural Strategies in the Modern World: Proceedings of the 3rd All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference (with international participation), Perm, May 11—12, 2023]. Perm, 2023, pp. 266—270 (in Russ.).

6. Bugrova O.L. Book Festivals in the Cultural Practice of Reading, Vos’mye Azarovskie chteniya. Biblioteka. Kul’tura. Obshchestvo: materialy Vserossiiskoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii s mezhdunarodnym uchastiem, 20 oktyabrya 2017 g. [The 8th Azarov Readings. Library. Culture. Society: Proceedings of the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference with International Participation, October 20, 2017]. Samara, 2018, pp. 156—162 (in Russ.).

7. Barsukova N.A. Regional Book Festivals: Socio-Cultural Space and Projects to Promote Reading, Universitetskaya kniga [University Book], 2022, no. 7, pp. 60—67 (in Russ.).

8. Faustov M. A Madman of the Federal Level, Knizhnaya industriya [Book Industry], 2023, no. 8, pp. 52—60 (in Russ.).

9. Lomykina N. “I Don’t Have a Black List of Authors”: How to Hold Book Festivals in 2023, Forbes. Available at: https://www.forbes.ru/forbeslife/495345-u-mena-net-cernogo-spiska-avtorov-kak-delat-kniznye-festi vali-v-2023-godu (accessed 18.03.2024) (in Russ.).

10. Alshevskaya O.N. Siberia and the Far East in the “Most Reading Region” Competition, Bibliografiya i knigovedenie [Bibliography and Bibliology], 2023, no. 4, pp. 96—109. DOI: 10.25281/2411-2305-2023-4-96-109 (in Russ.).

11. Lizunova I.V., Alshevskaya O.N., Moreva O.V. Reading Region: Effective Solutions in Promotion of Books and Reading, Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science], 2023, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 29—39. DOI: 10.25281/0869-608X-2023-72-1-29-39 (in Russ.).

12. Kurennaya I.G. (ed.) Zabaikal’skaya osen’. Literaturnye prazdniki (1965—2011) [Transbaikal Autumn. Literary Holidays (1965—2011)]. Chita, Palitra Publ., 2012, 238 p.

13. Leshchenko N.V. The Twenty-Third Far East Book Fair “Print Yard-2022”, Rossiya i ATR [Russia and the Pacific], 2022, no. 4 (118), pp. 209—210. DOI: 10.24412/1026-8804-2022-4-209-210 (in Russ.).

14. Plastkova M.I. The Big Book Fair: The Journey of the IBBY Honor List Books, Biblioteka i kul’turnoe prostranstvo regiona: materialy Vserossiiskoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii, Perm’, 11—12 noyabrya 2021 g. [Library and Cultural Space of the Region: Proceedings of the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference, Perm, November 11—12, 2021]. Perm, 2021, pp. 304—309 (in Russ.).

15. Pronina L.A. Local Stories: The 13th Krasnoyarsk Fair of Book Culture, Bibliografiya [Bibliography], 2020, no. 1 (426), pp. 151—156. Available at: https://rusneb.ru/catalog/000199_000009_011807607 (accessed 14.03.2024) (in Russ.).

16. Goncharuk I.A. Book Exhibitions-Fairs of the Far East of Russia in the Late 20th — Early 21st Centuries, Vlast’ knigi: biblioteka, izdatel’stvo, vuz: setevoe izdanie [The Power of the Book: Library, Publishing House, University: network edition], 2023, no. 7 (23), 10 p. Available at: https://www.dvfu.ru/library/almanac-power-books-/vypusk-7-23/Goncharuk23.pdf (accessed 14.03.2024)(in Russ.).

17. Goncharuk I.A. The Far Eastern Book Fair “Print Yard” as an Effective Way to Promote Publishing Products of the Region (Review for 1997—2012), Vlast’ knigi: biblioteka, izdatel’stvo, vuz: setevoe izdanie [The Power of the Book: Library, Publishing House, University: network edition], 2022, no. 6 (22), 7 p. Available at: https://www.dvfu.ru/library/almanac-power-books-/issue-6-22/Goncharuk22.pdf (accessed 14.03.2024) (in Russ.).

18. Danilova L.Yu. Regional Book Fair: Traditions and Prospects, Vestnik Dal’nevostochnoi gosudarstvennoi nauchnoi biblioteki [Bulletin of the Far Eastern State Scientific Library], 2017, no. 2 (75), pp. 4—17. Available at: http://vestnikdvgnb.ru/pdf/archive/VEST_75_2017.pdf (accessed 14.03.2024) (in Russ.).

19. Alshevskaya O.N. Knizhnye vystavki-yarmarki v Sibiri (1991—2013 gg.): monografiya [Book Exhibitions-Fairs in Siberia (1991—2013): monograph]. Novosibirsk, GPNTB SO RAN Publ., 2015, 194 p.