Academia (Soviet publishing house)

For the institute of higher education, see Academia.
Academia
Academia logo
StatusDefunct
Defunct1937 Edit this on Wikidata
SuccessorGoslitizdat
Country of originSoviet Union
Publication typesBooks

Academia (named after Platonic Academy[1]) was a Soviet publishing house prior to the merger with Goslitizdat. The publishing house employed many prominent Russian graphic artists (Nikolai Akimov, Veniamin Belkin, Leonid Khizhinsky, Vladimir Konashevich, Mark Kirnarsky, Dmitry Mitrokhin, Leo Mülhaupt, Sergei Pozharsky, Pavel Shillingovsky, etc.) and issued over one thousand books during its existence (1922–1937).[1] Academia, in particular, published the first translation of One Thousand and One Nights into Russian directly from the Arabic source, made by Mikhail Salye.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Издательство "ACADEMIA"" (in Russian). Academia.bukinist.su. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
  2. ^ Isaak Filshtinsky. О переводах '1001 ночи'. Тысяча и одна ночь. Избранные сказки (in Russian). Sheherazade.ru. Retrieved 17 Aug 2014.