Voenizdat is a publishing house in Moscow

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, Russia

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. It was one of the oldest and biggest publishing houses in USSR, and remains so in Russia

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. The name is a Russian

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 abbreviation

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 for "Voennoe Izdatelstvo", meaning "Military Publication".

Voenizdat was established by Revvoyensoviet

Revolutionary Military Council

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 on October 25, 1919. The initial aim was to publish literature for the needs of Ministry of Defence. It now publishes both fiction

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 and non-fiction

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 literature, technical manuals

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 and dictionaries

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