Book fairs are a great chance for small and newly established publishers to make themselves known, introduce readers to their products, or sell out too slowly selling copies.
The main book fair in Russia is, undoubtedly, Moscow International Book Fair. It is not only the largest, but also the oldest book fair in Russia: it has existed for more than thirty years. Every September it is held in Moscow. Many Russian and foreign publishing houses and printing houses participate in it. As a rule, the fair lasts 5 days. During this time, press conferences, seminars, and meetings with authors are organized at the venue.
Any publishing house or bookselling organization can participate in the fair. To participate, you must submit an application to the JSC General Directorate of the ICFA. Participation in the fair is paid. An application for participation can be filled out on the official MIBF website.
One of the largest Moscow book fairs − National exhibition-fair “Books of Russia”. It is held every spring and brings together publishing houses from all regions of Russia. This exhibition is focused more on local history literature, but publishing houses of other directions are also not uncommon here. More detailed information about it can be found.
Book exhibitions are also organized in St. Petersburg. This St. Petersburg International Book Salon, held in April.
The main book fair of the Krasnoyarsk Territory is, of course, QUACK − Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair. Held annually in October-November. You can participate by filling out an application.
If your publishing house does not publish books for everyone, then you should not miss Fair of intellectual literature "non/fiction". It is held in Moscow every November. Application for participation .
There are many international book fairs held abroad. Some of the most famous are the London Book Fair, Frankfurt Book Fair, BookExpo America and the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
The London Book Fair is held annually in April. For three days, book publishers from all over the world hold negotiations and exchange experiences; publication rights are sold. Official site London Book Fair.
Frankfurt Book Fair considered the largest book fair in the world. Every year it takes place in mid-October in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Conducted over five days. Most of the events at Frankfurt are devoted to rights trading and discussion of the future of book publishing in the digital world. Official site .
Another international book fair is BookExpoAmerica. It has been held annually in New York since 1947. At this fair you can learn about the latest book releases, meet young and talented authors, and discuss modern technologies in the book industry. You can find out more about the exhibition on the website.
Bologna Children's Book Fair For half a century now, it has been held every year in Italy. It is the most important international event for specialists working with children's literature. Fair website.
These are not all Russian and foreign book fairs. For a start-up publishing house, participation in several is enough for readers to know about it.
From September 6 (starts at 13:00) to September 10 (until 17:00) 2017, the Moscow International Book Exhibition-Fair will be held in pavilion No. 75 EXPO. 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.
Jubilee year
This year is special for the Moscow International Book Fair. MIBF celebrates a double anniversary: the thirtieth 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 the best that Russian book publishers produce throughout the year. The anniversary MIBF calendar coincides with the celebration of Moscow City Day and will be integrated into its program of events, which this year promises to be eventful and large-scale.
International scale
In addition, this is the only book event of this scale that takes place on an international scale. Both private foreign publishing houses and delegations from different countries come to present their best products to the Russian reader. This year MIBF will host publishers from 39 countries: 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
Over the five days of the fair, more than 700 events will take place- presentations of books, creative meetings of popular authors with readers, round tables, lectures and discussions on the most pressing topics of modern literature and book publishing business - on 12 thematic platforms, including“Literary living room”, “Literary kitchen”, “Children’s literature”, “First microphone”, “KnigaByte”, “Book: space of professions”, “TV studio”, “Business space”, “Main stage”. To quickly and comfortably navigate 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 will enjoy heated discussions, brilliant conversations with experts and meetings with outstanding figures of modern domestic and foreign literature: Dmitry Bykov, Roman Senchin, Olga Breininger, Narine Abgaryan, Andrey Rubanov, Victoria Tokareva, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Ekaterina Vilmont, Mikhail Weller, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Pavel Basinsky, Edward Radzinsky, Oleg Roy, Igor Prokopenko, Roma Bilyk (leader of the group “Zveri”), 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, Andrei Kolesnikov, Pavel Astakhov, Sergei Litvinov, Ekaterina Rozhdestvenskaya, Sergei Bubnovsky and foreign Kate Hamer, Kallia Papadaki, Robert Wegner and others.
Festival of Culture of Small Nations
This year the festival received the status of guest of honor of the fair "National Literatures of the Peoples of Russia". Representatives of the small nationalities of our country will come to Moscow to introduce guests to their original culture and languages. The festival program includes Udmurt rap, Even throat singing, Nanai dances with a tambourine, master classes on Khakass takhpakhas and tastings of national dishes. Visitors will be treated to a presentation of the 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 years of age in the languages of the peoples of Russia.
Forum of Slavic Cultures
The fair will feature several book exhibitions and a number of events, where the main topics will be the literary life of modern Slavic Europe, the future of books, the ecology of culture, the ecology of communication between peoples and their relationships. Today the forum unites 300 million Slavs of 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. The special exhibition will be visited by the Minister of Culture of Macedonia and the publisher Robert Alagyozovsky, director of the National Library of Serbia, writer Laszlo Blaskovic, professor at the University of Ljubljana Bozidar Jezernik, writers Nada Gasic(Croatia), Yani Virk(Slovenia), Marko Sosic(Slovenia - Italy) and others.
Exhibition "Press-1917" on the anniversary of the revolution
This year there will be an exhibition at MIBF "Press-1917", dedicated to the anniversary of the Russian Revolution. For five days, everyone will be able to familiarize themselves with newspapers and magazines that were published a hundred years ago. In addition, on the first day of the MIBF, visitors will be treated to open lectures by leading specialists from Russian universities on topics such as “Russia’s stamp on the eve of war and social upheaval (1914–1917)”; “Satirical magazines of the early twentieth century”; “Disaster in the cartoon of 1917”; "The February Revolution and the Women's Press"; “Domestic photography at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century.” and etc.
Presentations of future productions and series
The project will continue its activities this year “The market is right. Books for theater and cinema". There will be presentations of works that authors and publishers consider worthy of film adaptation. The works will be evaluated by an expert council of representatives of the film industry.
An evening program will take place on the main stage of the MIBF WORK-in-PROGRESS for fair guests. It will present theatrical projects, films and TV series for the coming season, created based on texts by contemporary authors, whose premieres will take place in the fall of 2017 - spring of 2018:
- Pavel Rudnev, a member of the expert council (representative of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov) will present the play “Green Pastures,” staged by Yulia Aug based on the stories of last year’s prize-winner Anna Starobinets.
- Producer of the Gamma Production film studio 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 Bylinsky will present a full-length film based on the story “July Morning”.
- Film studios “Zebra” and “Lumiere Production” will present to the audience the multicultural project “Slave of Love. Context of the era”, which includes books, scientific research and lectures by specialists, exhibitions, theater and film productions.
Charity event “Give a child a book”
For all five days, the MIBF will become a place where everyone who cares can help children. At the stand of the Russian State Children's Library as part of All-Russian charity event “Give a child a book!” will accept books as donations in order to send them to the library. Yu.F. Tretyakov, Voronezh region.
Another The charity event will be “Books Teach Kindness” in support of the House with a Lighthouse children's hospice. As part of the campaign, publishers formed a charity assortment of books, choosing their best books and donating them to the charity stand of the House with a Lighthouse children's hospice. Thus, at the stand of the children's hospice "House with a Lighthouse" (G-84) a unique shortlist of the exhibition will be presented, and each fair visitor can purchase a book for a donation, thereby supporting the children's hospice.
Main stage
The grand opening of the anniversary Moscow International Book Fair will take place on the main stage on September 6 at 12:00. And it is this platform that will become the concentration of the most interesting and vibrant events of various directions.
There will be a grand opening here festival “Read! Know how! Live bright!", which will delight children with master classes, meetings with authors, competitions and gifts throughout the five days at the children's workshop site.
This year, guests of the fair will be treated to several musical surprises. Will perform on the first day group "Bravo". Band leader, guitarist and songwriter Evgeniy Khavtan presents the first biography book of the Russian rock band. Singer Leonid Agutin will present a 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 Evgeniy Knyazev and theater and film actor Mikhail Polizeymako will read their favorite lines from the works of Samuil Marshak. A famous songwriter Ilya Reznik will talk about funny stories from the collection “Tyapa Doesn’t Want to Be a Clown,” which he wrote with humor and love for his young readers.
Festival of National Literatures of the Peoples of Russia
The National Youth Theater of the Republic of Bashkortostan named after. Mustai Karim, whose actors will perform the play in Kabardian language “The Joy of Our Home” based on the story by Mustai Karim. In addition, original performances prepared specifically for the fair audience will be presented by troupes from the Costume and Plastic Theater of the Kalmyk State Philharmonic, as well as the State Buryat Academic Drama Theater named after. Khotsa Namsaraeva. On Saturday evening, Alexey Pikulev and Bogdan Anfinogenov, rap artists from Udmutria, promise an incendiary performance in which tradition and modernity will merge together.
The theme of small nations of our great Motherland will be supported by the project of the Russian State Children's Library "Hello, neighbor!". Over the weekend, they will gather all curious children to tell them about the culture and traditions of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, and also introduce them to the literature of these peoples.
Forum "KnigaByte"
On the main stage of the forum, pressing and exciting issues will be discussed. The transformation of language under the influence of emoji will be discussed by the head of the department of new media at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov Ivan Zasursky, contemporary artist Pavel Pepperstein, blogger Dmitry Chernyshev, designer of the project “Shakespearean Passions” Evgeniy Zorin. Journalist, radio and television presenter, director Fekla Tolstaya will discuss with the writer and screenwriter Alexey Slapovsky, what is a modern series and can it be called a novel of the 21st 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 also talk about the possibilities of an electronic textbook: the Estonian publishing house AVITA will bring its developments in the field of e-learning and share them with the guests of the fair. And anyone can join the MTV TV presenter Likoj Dlugach play hopscotch and create a book in 60 minutes.
Space "Children's Literature"
Traditionally, a program has been prepared for little book lovers, which is in no way inferior in the number of events to the “adult” spaces. Young literature lovers will enjoy interactive competitions, master classes, meetings, games and all sorts of surprises. There will be a presentation of collections of fairy tales about the cat Baton Tatiana Edel, an environmental quiz for the whole family, an interactive competition based on books from the Disney series. Brave" about Princess Merida. Young readers will meet Marina Druzhinina, Dmitry Yemets, Marietta Chudakova, Anna Nikolskaya, Arthur Givargizov, Anastasia Orlova, Vadim Levin, Anna Goncharova, Natalya Volkova, a storyteller from England Holly Webb and others. While children are having fun, parents will be able to take part in discussions about methods for fostering a love of literature, the importance of family reading, and much more.
The children and their parents will be shown cartoons that took part in the 22nd Open Russian Animated Film Festival in Suzdal.
Mikhail Wiesel presents his translations of world bestsellers for children “The Day of the Panda CHU” by Neil Gaiman, “My Name is Bob” by James Bowen, “What Problems Penguins Have” by Jory John and Lane Smith.
Fairytale living room with baby Willie Winky from Theater "Most", quiz “Guess the Disney Hero”, poetry reading by the winners of the competition "Living Classic", famous Brazilian children's comics "Monica's Group", an interactive presentation about the culture of modern Japan, a master class on the Japanese language from the Bene-Dictus school and a story about the work of the famous animator Hayao Miyazaki, German children's university Kinderuni- such an extravaganza of types and forms of entertainment awaits young visitors to the MIBF. There will never be a dull moment, that’s what we promise our little guests!
“Non-fiction” space: literary cuisine
For a Russian person, the kitchen 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 real furniture, appliances and all the items necessary for cooking. Culinary master classes will be held here, which will bring together like-minded people on any issue.
Do you want to know hundreds of breakfast recipes from Olesya Kuprin, learn how to cook truffles with Baileys liqueur with Anastasia Zurabova, see the method of preparing real ajvar from Nastya Monday, and also remember your favorite delicacies from childhood with Irina Chadeeva and taste whiskey along with a guide to the world of this drink Evgeniy Sules? You can do all this and much more during the five days of the exhibition. We ask all fans of non-fiction not to pass by!
Doctor of Historical Sciences Yuri Zhukov will present 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 a new approach to understanding themselves and their children, and a historian, analyst, academician of the International Academy of Sciences Andrey Fursov will present his new work “The Struggle of Issues in Russian History.”
Round table dedicated to the centenary of the October Revolution, modern pedagogy with an honored teacher Evgeniy Yamburg, secrets 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 "Litrezerv", where young and talented authors are published. They’ll just tell you about complex things at the presentation of the “Akademklass” book series from the Nauka publishing house, and you’ll learn about Russian inventors and their creations from Timofey Skorenko, editor-in-chief of the portal Popmech.ru.
The living room will bring together many foreign authors who will introduce the Russian reader to their national literature. Everyone will have a chance to meet the South Korean writer Cho Haejin, celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of the largest Serbian writer Ivo Andric, hear the reading of fragments from the “Anthology of Modern Greek Literature”. Greek writer Kallia Papadaki, laureate 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.
This year's fair guests will be treated to many lectures and stories on the history of literature. To the 125th anniversary of Marina Tsvetaeva Natalya Gromova prepared a public speech entitled “The Soul That Knows No Measures.” A culturologist and journalist will talk 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 Tatyana Bronzova and Boris Shcherbakov will talk about the no less famous acting family of the Knipper-Chekhovs, presenting the two-volume publication “The Two Olga Chekhovs. Two Fates”, illustrated with rare photographs 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 the new book “2017. In the crown of thorns of revolutions." And the 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 read poems in Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian to the delight of listeners.
And for dessert the audience awaits movie"There's a dream in the eyes" a joint 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 most poignant, controversial and unconventional speeches of MIBF guests will be met at the First Microphone venue. Politician and historian Vladimir Ryzhkov will present a non-political book about his many years of travel in Altai, Victor Shenderovich presents the fictional prose “Savelyev”, and a specialist in the works of Mikhail Bulgakov Marietta Chudakova will hold a creative meeting with readers.
Visitors to the exhibition will be treated to several exclusive materials. Among them are useful tips on communicating with 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 Evgeniy 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, famous writer, critic Lev Danilkin will present his new book about the leader of the world proletariat, “Lenin: Pantocrator of Solar Motes,” and the ICAR publishing house also offers to discuss the civil war at the book presentation Oleg Trushin"Red and White".
Writer and State Duma deputy Sergey Shargunov will meet with readers and talk about his book “The Pursuit of Eternal Spring,” which is dedicated to the Soviet writer Valentin Kataev. Famous writer and presenter Dmitry Bykov will talk about his work on books about great Russian literary creators.
Political issues were not spared either. Journalist Armen Gasparyan will reveal myths about World War II, politician Nikolay Kabanov will reveal details of the public and behind-the-scenes activities of representatives of the Latvian government and opposition in 2002–2006, and is an expert on many socio-political programs on television Vladimir Kornilov will talk about his book “Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic. A shot dream."
Business program
Every year MIBF brings together Russian book industry professionals, as well as colleagues from abroad. They sum up the results of their year of work, discuss problems, look for solutions, share ideas and plans, and also formulate new tasks for the future. Almost the entire business program will take place in the comfortable conference rooms of the pavilion during the first three days of the exhibition.
At the annual industry conference "Book Market - 2017" participants will meet to discuss the state and prospects for the development of the Russian book market. Methods and technologies for promoting Russian literature to foreign readers will be discussed with representatives of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Specialists will have 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 Daunt, manager of Europe's largest chain of bookstores, Waterstones, will share his experience of 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 dedicated to it. For example, the development of cultural integration of Russia and the member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union based on international electronic formats will be discussed.
The Russian State Children's Library will gather 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 number of meetings dedicated to bibliography, legislative initiatives in the field of book business and book retail distribution.
“BookByte. The future of books"
Events dedicated to the future of books, new technologies and trends in the book industry will be held in the KnigaByte space. The future of the book." During the five days of the forum, representatives of various expert and professional communities will try to formulate their own hypothesis of the book future, present advanced products and solutions that determine the main vectors of development of the book environment.
The part of the program intended for a wide audience will take place on the main stage, and the business program will gather listeners in the conference rooms.
Ilya Fomenko, content marketing expert at MyBook, and Dmitry Shchukin, Internet marketer at the Russian School of Management, will hold a seminar on using Internet marketing tools to promote publishing projects.
Former editor-in-chief of KinoPoisk Mikhail Klochkov, head of the Knizhnyguide.org project Marta Raitsis and General Director of ReadRate Anastasia Khanina will discuss the problem of information overload of modern people and try to answer the question: “How to find your book?”
Round tables will be held on the audiobook market and its prospects, the possibilities of online publishing, as well as self-publishing.
Daria Mitina, a blogger and member of the jury of the All-Russian Book Trailer Competition, and Konstantin Milchin, editor-in-chief of the Gorky Media portal, will tell MIBF participants about the origins and prospects of the book trailer format. There will be a screening and discussion of the best domestic and foreign examples of the genre.
“Book: 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 participants the intricacies of marketing the book business. Dmitry Vernik, head of the Center for Technological Education, will hold a meeting on the topic of career guidance, its main problems and their solutions. The seminars will discuss methods of 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 Gutenberg People: Professions from Cover to Cover project. At the meeting, they will sum up the results of past cycles, understand book and career prospects, discuss working trends and set vectors for the development of the project.
The main organizer of the site is the Higher School of Printing and Media Industry of the Moscow Polytechnic University - the main book university of the CIS. The organizer has prepared a series of seminars for publishing specialists. They will become part of a further education course in the field of media industry. Upon completion of the course, participants will receive certificates and certificates.
Every day there will be a job fair for leading publishing houses and bookselling enterprises; the admissions committees of specialized colleges and the Moscow Polytechnic University will present their educational programs.
Self-publishing (hall A)
The digital book publishing platform, organized by the publishing platform Ridero, will present books by Russian independent authors and author imprints.
Ridero's mission is to help any author find his 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 warehouse costs.
There will be a presentation of the imprint Romana Senchina and its authors Andrey Rubanov (“Plant and it will grow”), Dmitry Danilov (“Horizontal Position”) and Alisa Ganina (“Salaam to you, Dalgat!”).
In the lecture, writers will be told how to attract readers to their books, safety precautions for writing, trends in book illustration and cover design, and how to get into the literary community.
Attention! The event program is subject to changes and additions!
The full program of events for all five days of the exhibition is published on the official website mibf.info.
PLACE: Pavilion No. 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 on the website for 130 rubles. At the VDNKh box office the ticket price will be 150 rubles. There are also tickets for preferential categories of citizens, a list of which can be found on the fair’s website.
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At the festival sites one could find amazing rarities, for example, the first edition of Ivan Turgenev’s story “Asya”, published in the Sovremennik magazine in January 1858. Antique lovers could also see the 1915 brochure by bibliographer and collector Sergei Mintslov, “Fake Antiques. A reminder to its lovers and collectors.” It describes how to independently determine the authenticity of collectible paintings, porcelain and enamel items. The publication's circulation was only 100 copies.
On weekends there were educational literary excursions. Walks along the central streets of the capital were accompanied by fascinating stories, for example, about what connected Ivan Bunin, Marina Tsvetaeva and Bella Akhmadullina with Povarskaya Street. The heroes of the excursions were Pushkin and Tolstoy, Yesenin and Voznesensky - festival guests had a unique opportunity to see the Garden Ring through the eyes of famous Russian writers and poets.
On New Arbat there were free master classes, lectures on the history of theater, foreign language and acting classes, which anyone could attend. Interesting workshops were conducted by art history teacher Anna Barynina, Luna Theater actress Anna Kachura, and Elizaveta Shevchenko, an expert in French language and literature.
As part of the festival, a meeting took place on Tverskaya Square with one of the most popular and beloved writers - Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Participation in the event was free for all visitors. Muscovites also met the creator of the best-selling book “Kaffa,” the writer Oleg Moryanin. The author revealed some of the secrets of writing a successful adventure novel and talked with festival guests about modern literature.
The Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF), Russia's largest international book forum, will be held on the territory of VDNKh, in pavilion No. 75.
The book industry is developing in accordance with trends in world culture, economics, innovation in the field of high technology and media content.
Book exhibitions, which are a reflection of the processes taking place in the industry, cannot remain the same.
The organizers of the MIBF are the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, as well as the state enterprise “General Directorate of International Book Exhibitions and Fairs”.
- 27 Moscow International Book Fair 2014 in the mirror of figures and facts:
- 63 participating countries
- Central events - Forum of Slavic Cultures and Slavic Book Festival
- 1027 participants
- The program includes over 500 events
- New books - more than 200 thousand publications in dozens of languages
- More than 220,000 visitors, Muscovites and guests of the capital.
Over the 5 days of the MIBF Festival 2017, more than 60 participants from 23 regions of Russia, representing more than 30 national languages, spoke to the audience. During the entire Festival, about 50 events took place, including creative meetings with writers, performances by national poets, presentations of unique publications, master classes in national languages, excursions to the National Library of the Peoples of Russia, theatrical performances and musical performances. Every day the Festival received more than 2,500 visitors.
More than 300 events at four thematic venues of Pavilion 75 at VDNKh took place at MIBF 2018. Publications at the fair were presented by over 300 participants from various regions of Russia and 30 countries of the world. For the first time in its history, the MIBF had a separate hall for children and youth audiences. At the fair's stands, visitors got acquainted with literature from China, India, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, Poland and other countries. This year the fair was visited by more than 100,000 guests.
In 2018, more than 30 countries took part in the fair. The French writer Bernard Verber brought a full house with his new novel “From the Other World.” The “Book of the Year” in 2018 was the “Great Russian Encyclopedia” in 35 volumes. The winner of the “Book of the Year” received the “Grand Prix”, which was made especially for the competition in the jewelry workshop of the Honored Artist of Russia Andrei Ananov.
MIBF will occupy 36,000 sq. m, over 500 events are planned. More than 200 thousand publications and over 500 events will be presented by 1,500 participants from 45 countries.
An extended description of the event, a map with a location mark, as well as a link to the official website of the event are available only