The Moscow International book fair. For five days, the exhibition pavilion will turn into a world of books! MIBF is special in that it is not only a holiday for book lovers, but also a business platform for publishers, authors, artists, printers and other representatives of the book business.
anniversary year
This year is special for the Moscow International Book Fair. The MIBF is celebrating a double anniversary: the thirtieth anniversary of the exhibition and the fortieth anniversary of the first fair. The fair has been held since 1977 and is the largest book forum in our country, which traditionally presents all the best that is published by Russian book publishers during the year. The anniversary MIBF calendar coincides with the celebration of the City Day of Moscow and will be integrated into its program of events, which this year promises to be rich and large-scale.
international scope
In addition, this is the only book event of this magnitude that takes place on an international scale. Both private foreign publishing houses and delegations come different countries to present their best products to the Russian reader. This year the MIBF will host publishers from 39 countries of the world: from neighboring countries to distant sunny Cuba. Russian book publishing will be represented by publishing houses from 60 regions our country.
700 events at 12 thematic venues
For five fair days will pass over 700 events- presentations of books, creative meetings of popular authors with readers, round tables, lectures and discussions about the most hot topics modern literature and book publishing business at 12 thematic venues, including"Literary Living Room", "Literary Kitchen", "Children's Literature", "First Microphone", "BookByte", "Book: Professions Space", "TV Studio", "Business Space", "Main Stage". For quick and comfortable orientation in the abundance of books in the pavilion, convenient navigation has been organized, which will allow you to easily select the desired stand and get to the presentation of your favorite author.
Outstanding writers
Guests are waiting for heated discussions, brilliant conversations of connoisseurs and meetings with outstanding figures of modern Russian and foreign literature: Dmitry Bykov, Roman Senchin, Olga Breininger, Narine Abgaryan, Andrey Rubanov, Victoria Tokareva, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Ekaterina Vilmont, Mikhail Veller, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Pavel Basinsky, Edward Radzinsky, Oleg Roy, Igor Prokopenko, Roma Bilyk (leader of the "Beasts" group), Daria Dontsova, Andrey Dementiev, Larisa Rubalskaya, Alexandra Marinina, Tatyana Vedenskaya, Nikolai Starikov, Ivan Okhlobystin, Ekaterina Gamova, Svetlana Khorkina, Viktor Gusev, Evgeny Satanovsky, Masha Traub, Tatyana Polyakova, Vera Kamsha, Roman Zlotnikov, Vadim Panov, Nick Perumov, Maria Metlitskaya, Andrey Kolesnikov, Pavel Astakhov , Sergey Litvinov, Ekaterina Rozhdestvenskaya, Sergey Bubnovsky and foreign Kate Hamer, Kallia Papadaki, Robert Wegner and others.
Festival of Culture of Small Nations
This year, the status of the guest of honor of the fair was received by the festival "National Literature of the Peoples of Russia". Representatives of small nationalities of our country will come to Moscow to acquaint the guests with their original culture and languages. The festival program includes: Udmurt rap, Even throat singing, Nanai dances with a tambourine, master classes in Khakass tahpakhs and tasting national dishes. Visitors will be presented with a unique Anthology of Children's Literature of the Peoples of Russia, which will include literary translations into Russian of poetic and prose works(including author's transcriptions of folklore) written for children under 12 in the languages of the peoples of Russia.
Forum of Slavic Cultures
The fair will feature several book expositions and host a number of events, where the main topics will be the literary life of modern Slavic Europe, the future of the book, the ecology of culture, the ecology of communication between peoples and their relationships. Today the forum brings together 300 million Slavs from ten participating countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Croatia, Montenegro - and three observer countries: Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Macedonian Minister of Culture and publisher to visit special exhibition Robert Alagyozovsky, director of the National Library of Serbia, writer Laszlo Blascovic, professor at the University of Ljubljana Bozidar Jezernik, writers Nada Gashic(Croatia), Jani Virk(Slovenia), Marko Sosic(Slovenia - Italy) and others.
Exhibition "Press-1917" on the anniversary of the revolution
This year the MIBF will host an exhibition "Press-1917" dedicated to the anniversary of the Russian revolution. Within five days, everyone will be able to get acquainted with newspapers and magazines that were published a hundred years ago. In addition, on the first day of the MIBF, visitors will enjoy open lectures by leading experts Russian universities on topics such as "The Press of Russia on the Eve of War and Social Upheaval (1914–1917)"; "Satirical magazines of the early twentieth century"; "The catastrophe in the caricature of 1917"; " February Revolution and women's press"; " Patriotic photography in late XIX- the beginning of the XX century. and etc.
Presentations of future productions and series
The project will continue this year. “The market is right. Books for theater and cinema». There will be presentations of works that authors and publishers consider worthy of adaptation. The works will be evaluated by an expert council of representatives of the film industry.
An evening program will be held on the main stage of the Moscow International Film Festival WORK-in-PROGRESS for the guests of the fair. It will present theatrical projects, films and series of the upcoming season, created on the basis of texts by contemporary authors, whose premieres will take place in autumn 2017 - spring 2018:
- Pavel Rudnev, a member of the expert council (representative of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov) will present the performance "Green pastures", which was staged by Yulia Aug based on the stories of last year's winner Anna Starobinets.
- Producer of the film studio "Gamma Production" and author Tatyana Ogorodnikova will present the pilot of the series "Say Something Good".
- Producer of the Third Rome studio Asya Temnikova and author Valery Bylinskiy will present a full-length film based on the story July Morning.
- Film studios "Zebra" and "Lumiere Production" will present to the audience a multicultural project "Slave of Love. The context of the era”, which includes books, Scientific research and lectures by specialists, exhibitions, theater and film performances.
Charity event "Give a child a book"
MIBF for all five days will become a place where every caring person can help children. At the stand of the Russian State Children's Library as part of All-Russian charitable action "Give a child a book!" will accept books as donations in order to send them to the library to them. Yu.F. Tretyakov, Voronezh region.
Another charity event will be "Books teach kindness" in support of children's hospice"House with a Lighthouse" As part of the action, publishers formed a charitable assortment of books, choosing their best books and donated them to the charity stand of the children's hospice "House with a Lighthouse". Thus, at the stand of the children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" (G-84) a kind of short list of the exhibition will be presented, and each of the visitors of the fair can purchase a book for a donation, thereby supporting the children's hospice.
main stage
On the main stage on September 6 at 12:00 will be held Grand opening Anniversary Moscow International Book Fair. And it is this platform that will become the concentration of the most interesting and bright events different orientation.
Here solemnly opens Festival "Read! Be smart! Live bright!", which during all five days at the site of children's master classes will delight children with master classes, meetings with authors, contests and gifts.
This year there are several musical surprises for the guests of the fair. Performing on the first day group "Bravo". Bandleader, guitarist and songwriter Evgeny Khavtan presents the first book-biography of the Russian rock band. Singer Leonid Agutin will present new book from the beloved AnimalBooks series - "I am an elephant." Musical critic Vladimir Marochkin presents his book "Legends of Russian Rock". People's Artist of Russia Evgeny Knyazev and theater and film actor Mikhail Politseymako they will read their favorite lines from the works of Samuil Marshak. A well-known songwriter Ilya Reznik talk about funny stories from the collection "Tyapa does not want to be a clown", which he wrote with humor and love to his young readers.
Festival of National Literature of the Peoples of Russia
The National Youth Theater of the Republic of Bashkortostan named after A.I. Mustai Karim, whose actors will show a performance on Kabardian"The Joy of Our Home" based on the story of Mustai Karim. In addition, original performances, prepared especially for the audience of the fair, will be presented by troupes from the Costume and Plastic Theater of the Kalmyk State Philharmonic, as well as the Buryat State Academic Drama Theater. Khotsa Namsaraeva. On Saturday evening, Alexey Pikulev and Bogdan Anfinogenov, rap artists from Udmutria, promise an incendiary performance that will merge tradition and modernity.
The theme of small nationalities of our great Motherland will be supported by the project of the Russian State Children's Library "Hello neighbor!". On the weekend they will gather all inquisitive children to tell them about the culture and traditions of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, as well as introduce them to the literature of these peoples.
Forum "KnigaByte"
On the main stage within the framework of the forum, acute and exciting questions. The transformation of the language under the influence of emoji will be discussed by the head of the Department of New Media of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov Ivan Zasursky, contemporary artist Pavel Pepperstein, blogger Dmitry Chernyshev, designer of the Shakespearean Passion project Evgeny Zorin. Journalist, radio and TV presenter, director Fekla Tolstaya discuss with the writer and screenwriter Alexey Slapovsky, what is a modern series and whether it can be called a novel of the XXI century. A music critic will discuss rap as a new Russian poetry Alexander Kushnir, poet Dmitry Vodennikov and rap artist KRESTALL. And of course, we will talk about the possibilities electronic textbook: the Estonian publishing house AVITA will bring its developments in the field e-learning and share them with the guests of the fair. And anyone can, together with the TV presenter MTV Likoy Dlugach play hopscotch and create a book in 60 minutes.
Space "Children's Literature"
Traditionally, a program has been prepared for little bookworms, which is in no way inferior in terms of the number of events to “adult” spaces. Interactive competitions, master classes, meetings, games and all sorts of surprises await young lovers of literature. There will be a presentation of collections of fairy tales about the cat Baton Tatyana Edel, environmental quiz for the whole family, an interactive competition based on books from the Disney series. Brave" about Princess Merida. With young readers will meet Marina Druzhinina, Dmitry Emets, Marietta Chudakova, Anna Nikolskaya, Arthur Givargizov, Anastasia Orlova, Vadim Levin, Anna Goncharova, Natalia Volkova, a storyteller from England Holly Webb other. In the meantime, the children will have fun, parents will be able to take part in discussions about the methods of raising a love of literature, the importance family reading and much more.
Children and their parents will be shown cartoons that took part in the 22nd Open Russian Animated Film Festival in Suzdal.
Mikhail Wiesel will present his translations of the world bestsellers for children "Chu Panda Day" by Neil Gaiman, "My Name is Bob" by James Bowen, "What's the Problem with Penguins" by Jory John and Lane Smith.
Fairytale Living Room with Baby Willy Winky by theater "Bridge", quiz "Guess the Disney character", poetry reading by the winners of the contest "Living Classic", the famous Brazilian children's comics "Monica's Band", interactive presentation about culture modern Japan, master class on Japanese from the Bene-Dictus school and a story about the work of the famous cartoonist Hayao Miyazaki, German Children's University Kinderuni- such an extravaganza of types and forms of entertainment awaits young visitors to the MIBF. There will be no time to be bored, we promise our little guests!
Non-fiction space: literary cuisine
Kitchen for Russian man is a territory of trust, a place where you can not only eat, but also have intimate conversations, share your wildest thoughts and fantasies. So on the territory of the MIBF there will be such a kitchen: a space equipped with a real set, appliances and all the items necessary for cooking. There will be culinary master classes that will bring together like-minded people on any issue.
Want to know hundreds of breakfast recipes from Olesya Kuprin, learn how to cook truffles with Baileys liqueur with Anastasia Zurabova, to see how real ajvar is prepared from Nasty Monday, as well as remember your favorite treats from childhood with Irina Chadeeva and taste whiskey along with a guide to the world of this drink Evgeny Sules? All this and much more you can do during the five days of the exhibition. All lovers of non-fiction, please do not pass by!
Doctor of Historical Sciences Yuri Zhukov presents a series of books about the Stalin era "Unknown Archives of the USSR", the Center for Cultural Development and Human Improvement will help readers find new approach I understand myself and my children, but a historian, analyst, academician International Academy Sciences Andrey Fursov will present his new work "The Struggle of Questions in Russian History".
Round table dedicated to the centenary October revolution, modern pedagogy with a distinguished teacher Evgeny Yamburg, mysteries of the brain from a neurophysiologist and academician Svyatoslav Medvedev, answers to questions about health Sergei Bubnovsky and much more.
Space "Fiction": literary living room
The team of authors from Literaturnaya Gazeta will present their new project "Literezerv", where young and talented authors are published. They will simply tell you about the difficult at the presentation of the Academclass book series from the Nauka publishing house, and you will learn about Russian inventors and their creations from Timofey Skorenko, chief editor of the portal Popmech.ru.
The living room will bring together many foreign authors who will introduce Russian reader with their national literature. Everyone will have a chance to meet a South Korean writer Cho Haejin, celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of the greatest Serbian writer Ivo Andric, hear the reading of fragments from the Anthology of Modern Greek Literature. Greek writer Callia Papadaki, winner of the European Union Literary Prize - 2017, will talk with a Russian writer Alisa Ganieva about how the language of a work affects its perception by a foreign reader.
Guests of the fair this year will find many lectures and stories on the history of literature. To the 125th anniversary of Marina Tsvetaeva Natalia Gromova prepared public speaking titled "The soul that knows no measure." Culturologist and journalist will tell about Russian literary emigration Yuri Bezelyansky. There will be a meeting dedicated to the legacy of the Tarkovskys, which will be attended by Marina Tarkovskaya(daughter and sister), the famous acting couple of Tatyana Bronzova and Boris Shcherbakov, will tell about the equally famous acting family Knipper-Chekhov, presenting the two-volume edition “Two Olga Chekhovs. Two destinies, illustrated rare photos from the archives of the Moscow Art Theater Museum.
It is difficult to imagine a living room without poetry and without politics, and therefore there will be both. Eduard Limonov will talk about the Russian revolution of 1917, about the current political situation and present a new book “2017. AT crown of thorns revolutions." Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoy and Ukrainian philologist and critic Lesya Mudrak will talk about the poetic almanac "Terra Poetica". The authors of the collection will recite poems in Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian to the delight of the listeners.
And for dessert, the audience is waiting movie"In the eyes - a dream" co-production of Russia, Germany and Switzerland about the journey of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salome to Russia in 1900.
"First microphone" (entrance to hall C)
The sharpest, controversial and non-standard performances of the MIBF guests will be met at the First Microphone site. Politician and historian Vladimir Ryzhkov will present a non-political book about his long-term travels in Altai, Viktor Shenderovich presents fiction"Savelyev", and a specialist in the work of Mikhail Bulgakov Marietta Chudakova will hold a creative meeting with readers.
Visitors to the exhibition can expect several exclusive materials. Among them helpful tips for communication with the stars from Vovan and Lexus (stars of the "Russian intellectual prank" Vladimir Kuznetsov(Vovan) and Alexey Stolyarov(Lexus)), an anthology of the satirical and humorous magazine "Beach", a conversation about lives and hagiographies, artisans and creators, Slavophiles and Westerners with Evgeny Vodolazkin and a story about the most successful startups from a TV journalist Elena Nikolaeva.
They will talk about history and its most odious personalities: on "Amateur Readings" will discuss the topic of the latest issue - about Churchill, a famous writer, critic Lev Danilkin will present his new book about the leader of the world proletariat "Lenin: Pantocrator of solar motes", and the IKAR publishing house offers to discuss civil war at the book launch Oleg Trushin"Reds and Whites".
Writer and MP State Duma Sergey Shargunov will meet with readers and talk about his book "The Pursuit of Eternal Spring", which is dedicated to Soviet writer Valentin Kataev. Renowned writer and presenter Dmitry Bykov will tell about his work on books about the great Russian literary creators.
Political issues were not spared either. Journalist Armen Gasparyan will reveal the myths about the Second World War, the politician Nikolai Kabanov will reveal the details of the public and behind-the-scenes activity of representatives of the Latvian authorities and the opposition in 2002-2006, and an expert in many socio-political programs on television Vladimir Kornilov will talk about his book “Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic. A shattered dream."
Business program
Every year MIBF brings together Russian book industry professionals, as well as colleagues from abroad. They sum up the year of their work, discuss problems, look for ways to solve them, share ideas and plans, and also form new tasks for the future. Almost the entire business program will take place in the comfortable conference halls of the pavilion during the first three days of the exhibition.
At the annual industry conference "Book market - 2017" the participants will meet to discuss the state and development prospects of the Russian book market. With representatives of the Frankfurt Book Fair, they will discuss ways and technologies for promoting Russian literature to foreign readers.
Specialists are waiting for a unique event - a discussion of strategies for leading the book infrastructure and attracting reader flows into the book space and culture with live from London. James Dont, manager of Europe's largest bookstore chain Waterstones, will share his experience of anti-crisis management.
One of the key topics of the business program will be digital technology theme in the printing business, in the book business. A number of round tables and conferences will be devoted to it. For example, the development of cultural integration between Russia and the member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union on the basis of international electronic formats will be discussed.
The Russian State Children's Library will bring together industry experts to discuss development prospects interdepartmental cooperation to promote children's and youth reading.
Among other things, participants will be invited to attend a series of meetings dedicated to bibliography, legislative initiatives in the field of the book business and book retail distribution.
"BookByte. The Future of the Book"
Events dedicated to the future of the book, new technologies and trends in the book industry will be held in the KnigaByte. The future of the book. Representatives of various expert and professional communities during the five days of the forum will try to form their own hypothesis of the book future, present advanced products and solutions that determine the main vectors for the development of the book environment.
Part of the program, designed for a wide audience, will take place on the main stage, and the business program will gather listeners in conference rooms.
Ilya Fomenko, content marketing expert at MyBook, and Dmitry Shchukin, Internet marketer at the Russian School of Management, will lead a seminar on using Internet marketing tools to promote publishing projects.
The ex- Chief Editor KinoPoisk Mikhail Klochkov, Knizhnyguide.org project manager Marta Raitsis and ReadRate CEO Anastasia Khanina will discuss the problem of information overload of a modern person and will try to answer the question: “How to find your book?”
There will be round tables dedicated to the audiobook market and its prospects, the possibilities of online publishing houses, as well as self-publishing.
Daria Mitina, blogger, jury member of the All-Russian Booktrailer Competition, and Konstantin Milchin, Editor-in-Chief of the Gorky Media portal, will tell MIBF participants about the origin and prospects of the booktrailer format. There will be a show and discussion of the best domestic and foreign examples of the genre.
"Book: the space of professions" (hall C)
The platform will bring together events dedicated to education, advanced training and book market professions. Book industry specialists will hold seminars, talk about technological innovations, and discuss with the participants the intricacies of marketing the book business. Dmitry Vernik, Head of the Center technological education, will hold a meeting on career guidance, its main problems and their solutions. The seminars will discuss methods for promoting an author's book in Russia and abroad. Book Experts will share their knowledge, advice and vision of the industry at the presentation of the project “Gutenberg People: Professions from Cover to Cover”. At the meeting, they will sum up the results of past cycles, sort out book and career prospects, discuss working trends and set the vectors for the development of the project.
The main organizer of the site is graduate School printing and media industry of the Moscow Poly - the main book university of the CIS. The organizer prepared a series of seminars for publishing specialists. They will be part of the course. additional education in the media industry. At the end of the course, participants will receive certificates and certificates.
Every day there will be a job fair of leading publishers and bookselling enterprises, admissions committees specialized colleges and Moscow Polytechnic University will present their educational programs.
Self-publishing (Hall A)
The digital book publishing platform, organized by the Ridero publishing platform, will present books by Russian independent authors and copyright imprints.
Ridero's mission is to help any author find their reader. And for book market professionals, the platform makes it possible to publish books without any economic barriers.
Here, MIBF visitors will be able to get acquainted with the capabilities of the platform and learn how to publish their own book or create their own publishing house without investing in circulation, distribution and storage costs.
There will be a presentation of the imprint Roman Senchina and its authors Andrey Rubanov (“Plant and it will grow”), Dmitry Danilov (“Horizontal position”) and Alisa Ganina (“Salam to you, Dalgat!”).
In the lecture hall, writers will be told how to attract readers to their book, about the safety of writing work, about trends book illustration and cover design and how to get into the literary community.
Attention! Changes and additions are possible in the program of events!
Full program events for all five days of the exhibition is published on the official website mibf.info.
PLACE: pavilion №75 EXPO.
TIME: September 6: 13:00-20:00, September 7-9: 10:00-20:00, September 10: 10:00-17:00.
PRICE: tickets to the fair can be purchased online for 130 rubles. At the box office of VDNKh, the ticket price will be 150 rubles. There are also tickets for preferential categories citizens, the list of which can be found on the website of the fair.
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Book lovers await biggest event in the cultural life of Moscow and Russia - from September 7 to 11, the 29th Moscow International Book Fair will be held in Pavilion No. 75 at VDNKh.
It will bring together about 500 participants from 35 countries. Of these, more than 400 are publishing houses in Russia, near and far abroad. This is the only exhibition project in Russia that presents all modern literary genres and directions. For five days, eminent writers, theater and film actors, cultural figures, art, politics, science and sports will present the latest in modern literature and book publishing. More than 100,000 people are expected to visit the exhibition.
At the stands of the exhibition-fair participants there will be meetings with famous authors, as well as presentations of their new books. For example, Viktor Pelevin will present the novel "The Lamp of Methuselah, or the Ultimate Battle of the Chekists with the Freemasons." Vladimir Markin, head of the department for interaction with the media of the Investigative Committee, will present a book about the most high-profile crimes of the 21st century in Russia. Director Nikita Mikhalkov will discuss the book Besogon with readers. Science fiction writer Sergei Lukyanenko will present his novel about zombies "KvaZi" to readers.
Book publishers from 37 countries will try to reveal the culture and traditions of their country through literature and art. The Chinese delegation is represented by 48 publishing companies, which will bring more than 1,000 art and educational publications. Iran will present the Persian translation of the collection of stories by Fazil Iskander. The Republic of Cuba will hold events in honor of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro. Armenia presents the anthology of Valery Bryusov "Poetry of Armenia from ancient times to the present day."
The Hellenic Republic will become an honorary participant of the MIBF, presenting well-known children's authors, poets and prose writers in Greece and abroad, as well as a selection of Greek cinema.
In honor of the Year of Russian Cinema, the exhibition will host a conference on copyright, where authors, lawyers, agents and representatives of the film industry will discuss various aspects associated with the use of intellectual property. Writers and book publishers will offer directors and producers their the best works for screening.
The MIBF program includes about 100 business events: conferences, round tables, congresses, discussion platforms. One of the key will be round table The Art of Literary Diplomacy. Russian Literature on the Way to a Foreign Reader”, which will take place on the opening day of the exhibition-fair on September 7th.
On the second day of work, the industry conference "Book Market of Russia - 2016", which has already become traditional, will be held.
A special atmosphere of the holiday of the book will be created by various author's platforms - "Literary Lounge", "Literary Kitchen", "Children's Space", "First Microphone", "Knigabyte", "Book: Professions Space", "TV Studio", "Business Space". About 20 meetings with famous writers and guests of honor, as well as presentations and screenings of films.
More than 40 events for children and their parents will be held at the children's literature site. Everyone will find something to their liking: kids will be able to watch a selection of cartoons and filmstrips from the digitized collection of the Russian State Children's Library, older children will take part in master classes and quizzes of the Read! Be smart! Live brightly! ”, And parents will be able to choose for home library novelties of children's literature or book classics proven by generations.
Several dozen concert programs, theatrical performances and performances by artists. All five days of the exhibition-fair, bright performances and memorable artistic images await guests. For example, guests will be able to see the pride of Kazakhstan - the best ethno-folk group Turan and the ethno-jazz duo ST Brothers.
Within the framework of the MIBF, one of the most anticipated events in the literary environment will take place - the awarding of the winners of the annual national competition "Book of the Year".
Entrance ticket price:
150 rubles - general ticket for a one-time pass for one person;
125 rubles - a general ticket for a one-time pass for one person, purchased through the exhibition website;
250 rubles - a family ticket for a one-time pass for two adults and any number of children together with them;
200 rubles - weekend ticket for one person for any number of visits to the exhibition on Saturday and Sunday;
75 rubles - for students, pensioners, disabled people of the third group (50 percent discount);
Free - for children, schoolchildren, disabled people of the first and second groups, participants of the Great Patriotic War.
MOSCOW, 6 September. /TASS/. The jubilee 30th Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF) opened on Wednesday at VDNH, more than 600 publishing houses from forty countries take part in its work.
“For six months in 2017, about 60 thousand book titles were published in our country, with a total circulation of 254 million copies. This circulation is 20% more than it was in the same period in 2016,” said Mikhail Seslavinsky, head of Rospechat. - About 400 events will take place within the framework of this fair. This is a jubilee year - the centenary of the October Revolution, and each of you can read what was written in newspapers and magazines a hundred years ago.
"30 years for modern history Russia is the life of a whole generation. And for 30 years, the favorite forum, the MIBF, has been operating," said Vladimir Tolstoy, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on culture.
The Minister of Culture and Sports of Greece Lydia Koniordou took part in the opening of the MIBF. "The exhibition is distinguished by its quality, its level in the field of copyright exchange and ensured a strong interaction of the city with the book exhibition in Thessaloniki," the minister said. She also recalled that Athens was declared the International Book Capital of UNESCO in 2018.
Member of the Federation Council from Moscow Zinaida Dragunkina noted that humanity has not come up with the best gift than a book. "I'm convinced that no digital age can be better than the feeling we get when picking up a book," she said.
Representatives of the book industry about MIBF
Oleg Novikov, president of the Eksmo-AST publishing group, told TASS that " important feature MIBF-2017 is a combination of a rich professional and cultural and entertainment program." "The days of its holding coincide with the celebration of the Day of the City of Moscow. It is very important that the book is part of this holiday," he said.
Novikov also said that the publishing group has thoroughly approached the preparation of its own sites. "More than 200 events will be held at six venues, where about 100 leading Russian authors present their new products to the public. Dmitry Bykov, Roman Senchin, Denis Dragunsky, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Evgeny Vodolazkin, Evgeny Satanovsky, Nikolai Starikov, Andrey Dementyev, Larisa Rubalskaya are among them," he said.
In turn, Marina Abramova, Chairman of the Regional Development Committee of the Russian Book Union, stressed to TASS the importance of this cultural event for the book industry.
"The MIBF is certainly the central autumn event for the book industry: every year the exhibition-fair holds hundreds of events for both readers and professional community, - she said. - The exhibition opens a new book season, for which all publishers prepare novelties and present the best of them. The work of the booth of the Russian Book Union at MIBF-2017 includes both major cultural and business events."
Abramova recalled that the industry conference "Book Market of Russia" will be held on Wednesday, where the largest publishers and book market players will sum up the preliminary results of 2017.
About the exhibition
The Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF) takes place in Moscow at VDNKh from 6 to 10 September. This year, the MIBF is celebrating two anniversaries at once: the thirtieth anniversary of the exhibition and the fortieth anniversary of the first fair. The holding of the MIBF calendar coincides with the celebration of the City Day of Moscow (September 9).
The Moscow International Book Fair has been held since 1977 and is the largest book forum in Russia. Around 100,000 people visit the fair every year.
From 5 to 9 September 2018, the main event of the Russian book industry - the 31st Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF) - will take place in Moscow on the territory of VDNKh. This is the most authoritative international book forum in our country, where all major publishing houses are represented. The work of the exhibition is covered by dozens of TV companies, a lot of print and electronic media.
The book fair is traditional place meetings of authors and publishers, as well as demonstrations of the latest creative achievements. Many book lovers visit this exhibition to replenish their libraries. Exhibitors have unique opportunity to get acquainted and communicate with readers, and most importantly - to establish professional relations with representatives of publishing houses and famous writers.
Conference of the Russian Union of Writers "Edition of Authors of Modern Literature"
The event is dedicated to the issues of publishing and promoting the work of contemporary authors - from the first publications on the Internet to publishing and promoting your own book, including participation in competitions literary prizes, preparation of manuscripts, organization of speeches and presentations.
The first volumes of the "Anthology of Russian Poetry" and "Anthology of Russian Prose", as well as the Catalog of Modern Literature, published by the Publishing House will be presented at the conference. Russian Union writers.
The Conference will be attended by:
- leadership of the Russian Union of Writers
- specialists of the Publishing House of the Russian Union of Writers
- special guests: authors whose works are included in the "Anthology of Russian Poetry" and, winners literary competitions, experts of the Russian Union of Writers
The Conference participants will answer the questions of the audience, the authors who have already published own books tell listeners about their successful experience, publishers will help you navigate modern technologies offered today will explain what is important to pay attention to when planning and preparing a publication, what methods and techniques allow you to fully realize your capabilities. You can ask questions to colleagues and invited experts - publishers and editors, get qualified advice. Video filming of the event will be made by the film crew of Litklub.TV.
To get to the conference, take the elevator or escalator to the second floor. No tickets are required to enter this zone, admission is free. In the diagram, the first floor of hall C is shown on the left half, and the second floor is shown on the right. Green arrows indicate the way to the conference on the first and second floors through the elevator or escalator.
