The building today houses the book belonged to the company \Zdanie nyneshnego Doma knigi prinadlezhalo kompanii \u0026laquo;Zinger\u0026raquo; do 1917 goda, zatem gosudarstvo smenilo yego naznachenie i nazvanie.\\u0026laquo;Dom Knigi\u0026raquo; stal samym krupnym podobnym torgovym uchrezhdeniem v SSSR.A v pervoe vremya svoego sushchestvovaniya do 1921 goda knigi zdesʹ dazhe rasprostranyalisʹ besplatno.V 1930-h godah pisatelʹ S. YA.Marshak , organized children's publishing work here , \Маршак организовал здесь работу детского издательства \u0026laquo;Лендетгиз\u0026raquo;, выпускавшего популярные тогда журналы \u0026laquo;Чиж\u0026raquo; и \u0026laquo;Ёж\u0026raquo;. only the first five years has produced more than 2,000 items of literature of high quality printing .
And during the siege of Leningrad \
I vo vremya blokady Leningrada \u0026laquo;Dom Knigi\u0026raquo; prodolzhal rabotatʹ.6 noyabrya 1941 goda vzryvnaya volna popavshyeĭ v sosednyee zdanie bomby vybila vse stëkla v vitrinah, no magazin prodolzhil svoyu rabotu pri zakolochennyh faneroĭ i doskami oknah.In winter 1941-42 there was one unpleasant event : severed pipes in the basement library . Two months of \Dva mesyatsa \u0026laquo;Dom Knigi\u0026raquo; byl zakryt, yego sotrudniki spasali literaturu.Posle etogo torgovlyu veli ne v stenah zdaniya, a na lotkah na ulitse.
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\u0026laquo;Dom knigi\u0026raquo; obladaet zasluzhennoĭ reputatsiyeĭ novatora v knizhnoĭ torgovle :in the postwar years were regularly held prazdnichnyk book markets, meet buyers from the authors vecheroa poetry , the store has introduced a system of weekly review of new acquisitions of books, began to use advertising in the sales rooms , windows and near the store , as well as on the radio:
Store \
Magazin \u0026laquo;Dom knigi\u0026raquo; byl vnovʹ otkryt dlya pokupatelyeĭ 14 noyabrya 1948 goda, i eto stalo yego vtorym rozhdeniem.
In the present \,,has 12 branches in different districts of Saint Petersburg ,
From 2004 to September 2006 the building was under construction , in November 2006 it is functioning , \
S 2004 po sentyabrʹ 2006 zdanie nahodilosʹ na rekonstruktsii; s noyabrya 2006 v nëm vnovʹ funktsioniruet \u0026laquo;Dom knigi\u0026raquo;.