Planeta (Planet), Moscow

Планета

Planeta (Planet) Publishing was a state-owned, Moscow publisher that was formed in 1969. It was located at 8-11 Petrovka Street and it served as a contract publisher for Goskomizdat USSR (State Committee on Publishing in the USSR) in addition to publishing literature for the USSR Journalists Union. Planet issued posters, photo portraits, photo-illustrated books, postcards, calendars and it published the magazine Soviet Photo (A.K.A. Photography Magazine)-- the chief periodical for Soviet and Eastern Bloc photojournalists. Planet Publishing also developed co-editions with non-Soviet publishers. The publishing house was dissolved around 1991.

PP 166: The decisive third year of the five-year plan in 1973.
Wider expansion of socialist competition!

PP 778: Fifty years of labor victories
1922 – 1972

Sources & Citations

Sviblova, O. (2004). Soviet photography of the 1920s and 1930s - Sowjetische Photographie der 20er und 30er Jahre. Winterthur: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Moskovskii dom fotografii.

Regional Surveys of the World. Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia: 2003. (2002). London: Europa Publications. (list of publishers includes Planeta)

Nemirovskii, E. L., Platova, M. L. (1987). Knigoizdanie SSSR: Tsifry i fakty 1917-1987. Moskva: Kniga.