In St. Petersburg today, May 19 at the Museum “printed” State Museum of History, “Peter and Paul Fortress” will be a ceremony blanking postal card issued in honor of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg journalism, printing and publishing industry. As reported BakuToday the press service of the Federal Postal Saint Petersburg and Leningrad region, in a ceremony that will take place amid ancient printing presses and machines of the museum, will be attended by the President of the Union of Graphic Arts of St. Petersburg Sergei Radvanetsky, Secretary of the Journalists’ Union of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region Yuri Lights and Deputy Director of the Regional Post Office Oleg Mashkovsky.
Among the honored guests at the event – the leaders of printing companies and publishers.
Recall, May 11, noted 300 years of journalism in St. Petersburg. As reported BakuToday Union printers in St. Petersburg, October 11, 1710 Russian Emperor Peter I ordered to be expelled from Moscow printing house in St. Petersburg with the standard typographic letters and artisans people. In winter 1711 the city came four typesetter, two and two teredorschika babyyschika with typographical characters and pitched, it was possible to organize the first in the northern capital tipografiyu.11 May 1711 came the first production of Saint-Petersburg printing – the newspaper “Vedomosti”. In early July the same year in the print shop printed the first book – “Processes” EF Krompeyna.
