MOSCOW, September 8./Corr. ITAR-TASS Anna Nechaeva/. The largest book forum Russia, Moscow international book fair (MIBF), which was held from 3 to 7 September at the exhibition center, was attended by more than 220 thousand People. About it told ITAR-TASS in the press centre on the 27th of the show.

" The estimated growth in the number of visitors this year was about 10%, " he told the journalist ITAR-TASS the sides of the Agency.- Among the guests MIBF was much more young people, as well as significantly very high attention areas ".

for the first time this year in the MIBF programme was attended by the major international and Russian online projects aimed at popularization and development of reading.


in the 27th book fair was attended by 63 countries, there were more than 200 thousand books in dozens of languages around the world. The first time the forum was organized individual exposure publishers Crimea, and also opened a new project " Veranda", a special cluster, where connoisseurs can find used books, rare music publications and vinyl.

the forum also hosted events award at the international contest " Art of book ", national contest " book of the year " and " Image books ". Their fresh books showed the Minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky and Director Nikita Mikhalkov. Guests book review steel Boris Akunin, Tatyana Tolstaya, Zakhar Prilepin, Eugene Vodolazkin, Dmitry Glukhovsky, and others.


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