the Sov. publishing house, which lets out uch.
literature for the high, sr. specialist. and Prof. -texnic.
uch. of institutions. It is located in Moscow. Osn.
in 1939 under title. "Soviet science"; in 1959 it is
renamed in "v. w.". In 1963 united with Russian, under the
higher educational publishing house (Rosvuzizdat) and by Prof.- tech.
publishing house (Proftekhizdat). Besides textbooks, uch. and
visual aids, uch.-metodich. of literature, izdayet a number of the
periodicals: the "scientific reports of higher school", the
"herald of higher school", "special secondary education",
"professional technical formation", etc. In 1970 volumes of
izdat. of production it composed 1016 names (355,3 mln. printed sheet-
impressions) by the print run of 25,2 millions. ekz. V. g. Panov.
