Separately, it is necessary to dwell on the strategic direction chosen by the Academy for improving its publishing activities, first of all, the publication of scientific journals in modern market conditions by expanding the scale and scope of activity of the International Academic Publishing Company MAIK "Science/Interperiodics".

RAS journals, based on the composition of their founders, are divided into general academic (published in the name and under the brand of the RAS), regional (published in the name and under the stamp of regional branches of the RAS) and institutional (published by institutions of the RAS and under their stamp). General academic journals are published by the Nauka publishing house (Moscow) and its enterprises - publishing companies. 154 journals are published under the Nauki publishing house brand, including 132 in Moscow and 22 in St. Petersburg. More than 20 journals are published by regional branches of the Academy (Siberian, Ural and Far Eastern). About 30 journals are published by departments and/or institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences (sometimes with the involvement of partners).

If previously the main founder of journals was the Russian Academy of Sciences, then in the last few years specialized and regional branches of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as scientific institutions themselves, have begun to create their own journals: for example, the Institute of Applied Mechanics publishes the journal “Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures”, the Institute of Socio-Economic problems of population - magazine "Population", Institute of International Economic and Political Research - "Bulletin of Scientific Information". INION publishes the magazine “Russia and the Modern World” and the newsletter in Russian and English “Russia and the Muslim World”. The publishers of these journals are both regional publishing houses and academic institutions.

The Academy continued to publish a number of journals jointly with scientific institutions of foreign countries (the journal "Neurochemistry" is published jointly with the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, and the journal "Analysis mathematica" is prepared by the Steklov Mathematical Institute jointly with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and published in Hungary).

Most academic journals are also published in English.

Over the past 10 years, despite the difficult period, 7 general academic journals have been created, renewed or reorganized. The circulation of magazines has stabilized, and according to the results of subscriptions for the first half of 2001, there was even an increase in the circulation of a number of magazines. At the beginning of 2001, the magazines with the largest circulations were: “State and Law” (5136, an increase of 465 copies), “Questions of Philosophy” (4864; +165), “World Economy and International Relations” (4195; +327), "Sociological Research" (3446; +331), "Domestic History" (3312; +73), "Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences" (2358; +182), "New and Contemporary History" (2158; +57), "Psychological magazine" (2022; +323).

Distribution of journals published by the Academic Publishing Center "Science" of the Russian Academy of Sciences, by thematic areas.

From the editor-in-chief. Direct speech

This year it will be 50 years since I came to work after the University at the Nauka Publishing House, which was then located on Podsosensky Lane, 21. Shekhtel’s ancient mansion, built for Savva Morozov, or rather, as they said, for his beloved women. In Soviet times, this mansion housed the world's largest scientific publishing house, the Academy of Sciences. All rooms and corridors were filled with editorial offices of scientific literature. Each branch of knowledge had a corresponding scientific edition. And there were even four historical editions. Life was in full swing. Here we spent days sitting with the authors - taking questions, in a wonderful library covered with wooden panels, checking quotes from the classics of Marxism-Leninism, and regular party congresses. The slightest mistake, especially in quotations, threatened with severe measures. Even literary works were censored. Highly specialized works were also ideologically oriented. All, absolutely all publications had to be accompanied by quotes from Marx, Engels, and Lenin.

With 100,000 copies of ideological literature in circulation, there was a book famine in the country. Therefore, when the world’s masterpieces of literature were published from the walls of the Publishing House, and these are the Complete Works of our classics of literature, the “Literary Monuments” series, popular science literature and others, huge queues formed at Akademkniga stores overnight. Somehow it got to the point that the window of the Akademkniga store was knocked out on Gorky Street. We, the Publishing House employees, received one book for the entire editorial staff. One in eight to ten turned out to be lucky.

The main value of the Publishing House were its authors and editors. Almost everyone I worked with were interesting individuals with a unique destiny. Over the years, we published many authors in “Monuments ... of Economic, Historical and Philosophical Thought.”

The “Podsosensky” period ended with the destruction of the Publishing House, the removal from positions of management, primarily the director, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences Alexander Mikhailovich Samsonov, in connection with the Nekrich case and the release of his book “1941, June 22”. This high-profile case can be found on the Internet.

With the move to Profsoyuznaya, 90, a new stage in the life of the Publishing House began. Leaders changed, the party organization worked, at the end of each month they “rescued” the working class - they worked in the printing house, fulfilled the plan. Vegetable bases; in the fall, potatoes were collected on the collective farm. Everything is the same as throughout the country. But at the same time, there was an amazing “outlet” in the life of the collective when our wonderful assembly hall hosted such outstanding artists as Andrei Tarkovsky, Vladimir Vysotsky, Bella Akhmadulina, Sergei Yursky, Mikhail Kazakov, Alexander Shirvindt, Mikhail Derzhavin, Margarita Terekhova, Nani Bregvadze, Nikita Bogoslovsky, and many others.

Tatyana Efimovna Filippova
editor-in-chief of the Nauka Publishing House,
Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation

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