Publishing house "Molodaya Gvardiya"

• Name — Molodaya Gvardiya • Status — Active • Founded — 10 October 1922 • Founder — Central Committee of the Komsomol • Country — Soviet Union Russia • Headquarters — Moscow • Keypeople — *Valentin Fedorovich Yurkin (CEO) • Andrey Vitalyevich Petrov (Director - Chief Editor) • Website — gvardiya.ru

• Illustration — The Song of Hiawatha, 1931 1922 — The Molodaya Gvardiya publishing and printing association was founded in Moscow on the initiative of the Central Committee of the Komsomol on October 10. In the first year of the publishing house's operation, 71 books were published with a circulation of 584,000 copies. 1930s — The publishing house began to produce not only books, but also newspaper and magazine products. • Illustration — Yuri Gagarin at the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house on the day he signed for the printing of his book Psychology and Space. Photo by RIA Novosti, 1968. In 1968, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin signed for the printing of his book Psychology and Space, written in collaboration with Vladimir Lebedev, which has been reprinted and translated into numerous languages. He also wrote the preface to the biography of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in the ZhZL series in 1962. 1990s — The circulation of books was sharply reduced, with many series being discontinued. 2000s — A gradual process of reviving the activities of the publishing house was started. In 2009, the ZhZL: Small Series was launched, which differs from the classic ZhZL series only in the volume of the material.

• The Lives of Remarkable People (ZhZL) (Zhizn' zamechatel'nykh lyudey) • The Lives of Remarkable People: The Biography Continues... (Zhizn' zamechatel'nykh lyudey: Biografiya prodolzhayetsya...) • The Lives of Remarkable People: Small Series (Zhizn' zamechatel'nykh lyudey. Malaya seriya) • Living History: The Daily Life of Humanity (Zhivaya istoriya: Povsednevnaya zhizn' chelovechestva) • You're On the Road, Romantic (Tebe v dorogu, romantik) • Library of Contemporary Fiction (Biblioteka sovremennoi fantastiki) • The Near Past (Blizkoye proshloye) • Case Number... (Delo №…) • Russia and the World (Rossiya i mir) • Century Prose (Proza veka) • Golden Giraffe (Zolotoy zhiraf) • Arrow (Strela) • Literary Solitaire (Literaturnyy pas'yans) • Pioneer - Means First (Pioner — znachit pervyy) • Sport and Personality (Sport i lichnost') • Eureka (Evrika) • Heroes of the Patriotic War (Geroi Otechestvennoy voyny)