The Moscow-based Sovietskaia Rossiia (Soviet Russia) Publishing House was created in 1957. Its operations were under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic). The publisher disseminated works concerning popular and social sciences, children's literature, political propaganda, the fine arts, and they published a host of periodicals. The formation of Sovietskaia Rossiia led to the replacement of Goskul'tprosvetizdat (State Publishing House for Culture and Education).