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=                           Mir Publishers                           =
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Mir Publishers () was a major publishing house in the Soviet Union
which continues to exist in modern Russia. It was established in 1946
by a decree of the USSR Council of Ministers and has been
headquartered in Moscow since then. It was completely state funded,
which was the reason for the low prices of the books it published.

Its scope was domestic and translated special and tutorial literature
in various domains of science and engineering: mathematics, physics,
chemistry, biology, agriculture, transport, energy, etc. Many Soviet
scientists and engineers were its contributors. The staff provided
translation from original Russian. In addition, during the Soviet
times it was known for translated foreign scientific and popular
science books as well as science fiction. Many of Mir's books were and
are used as textbooks for studies of science in many countries.

The publishing house survived after the dissolution of the Soviet
Union and was eventually privatised and later expanded its scope by
incorporating a number of state publishing houses:  Kolos (Колос),
Transport (Транспорт), Khimiya (Химия), Metallurgiya (Металлургия),
Legprombitizdat (Легпромбытиздат), and Energoatomizdat
(Энергоатомиздат).

In 2008, the company faced a bankruptcy case.
The case was closed by the Moscow Arbitral Court on June 2, 2009
because the publishing house had paid completely the debt to the
creditors.

'Note': its old domain, mir-publishers.net, is squatted.


 English language 
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* Advances in Science and Technology in the USSR: Biology Series
* Advances in Science and Technology in the USSR: Chemistry Series
* Advances in Science and Technology in the USSR: Mathematics and
Mechanics Series
* Advances in Science and Technology in the USSR: Physics Series
* Advances in Science and Technology in the USSR: Technology Series
* Higher Mathematics Series
* Little Mathematics Library
* Science for Everyone


 French language 
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* Science soviétique


 Spanish language 
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* Ciencia Popular
* Los Científicos a los Escolares (CE)
* Física al Alcance de Todos
* Lecciones Populares de Matemáticas


                            External links                            
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* [https://mirtitles.org/ Mir Books | Books from the Soviet Era]
*
[https://archive.org/search.php?query=publisher%3A%22Mir+Publishers%22
Online copies of books published by Mir Publishers] at Internet
Archive


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