The authors provide the main statistical data of the Russian book publishing of the first half of 2021.

The publications statistics and bibliographical lists of printed publications (books and articles) by F.M. Dostoevsky are submitted from 1991 till 2020. The literature about works and creations of this author is also reflected.

A brief history and modern priorities of the activities of the Russian State Library in the field of science of bibliography, retrospective national bibliography, the creation of fundamental retrospective scientific auxiliary indexes, printed catalogues of individual collections are considered.

Two interrelated areas of Russian bibliography are the project «Book Monuments of the Russian Federation» and the recreation of the repertoire of the Russian book. Book monuments activate the editing of entries, processing of old-printed and old editions especially in the regional libraries. The need for union catalogues-repertoires and regional catalogues-repertoires exists.

The author analyzes the certain areas of library activity of Krasnodar public libraries in remote access conditions.

This review provides the general statistics of books editions for children over the past 16 years (the conventional “juvenile age”) in Russia. The main trends associated with the current ideas about “actual” children’s and teenager’s book are marked as well as the most popular authors. The ideological, thematic features of abovesaid editions as well as genre ones are revealed in connection with the special attention to such works from the modern domestic publishers.

Letter from N.F. Yanitsky in the Crimean period of his life and work was found in the personal archive fund of professor I.A. Linnichenko. The main directions of Yanitsky’s activity in Simferopol are represented.

The article, based on the material from the Demyan Bedny Foundation in IMLI and based on the memoirs of contemporaries, tells about the history of the unique library of the proletarian poet. An attempt is made to show the “other” Demyan Bedny, different from the image that remained in history. A special place is devoted to the study of the relationship between Demyan Bedny and second­hand booksellers of the first half of 20th century.