Mystetstvo State Publishing House (sold)
Mystetstvo ('Art') State Publishing House (Державне видавництво 'Мистецтво'; 1932 - present) is a publishing house, state-run for much of its history, based in Kyiv that focuses on the arts, including art history, aesthetics, theater, and cinema. After the fall of the Soviet Union, it continued operations as a private publisher with the same emphasis as before, but also now publishes works on local history.
Kyiv as a Soviet metropolis.
This is a charming and extremely rare c. 1961 Ukrainian-language map of Kyiv, then capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It exhibits the city's revival after the horrors of the Second World War (1939 - 1945), when Kyiv was almost completely destroyed, and its postwar boom, driven by Cold War defense industries. (more details)