The story
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.
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.
From Wikipedia’s article on Molodaya Gvardiya (publisher), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3