Our series is an educational and social project!
The authors, artist, designer, layout designer and other participants in the almanacs of the series «PORTS OF THE WORLD» refused any income from the sale of books:
No. 2 «Kronstadt…,» – 28 authors and participants;
No. 3 «Vladivostok…» – 17 authors and participants from 7 cities of the CIS, four fleets of the Russian Federation;
No. 4 «Arkhangelsk. Severodvinsk …", – 19 authors and participants;
No. 5 «The Crimea. Sevastopol» – 20 authors and participants.
No. 6 «St. Petersburg. 310 years of CNM – 12 authors and participants.
The authorial collective of the book series «PORTS OF THE WORLD» has In all, 95 authors by the 6th almanac.
Our authors are scientists, shipbuilders, doctors of the army and navy of the Russian Federation, journalists, artists, writers, poets and collectors. There are persons among them, which are awarded with of Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of Russia, orders and medals of the USSR and the Russian Federation.
Our book educational project, which mainly deals with the history of maritime affairs in Russia, particularly welcomes the participation of schoolchildren, students and pupils of military and naval history clubs in the almanacs.
Among the authors there is a large percentage of participants that have a scientific worldview, who are awarded with the titles of candidates and doctors of science, docent and professorial status. They teach a wide variety of disciplines in universities of CIS countries (from history and oceanology to shipbuilding disciplines, and from medicine to journalism and philosophy, which allows to publish articles of analytical orientation that allow people to navigate the information world of marine sciences and related perspectives.
The following books were published in the series:
The book-almanac No. 2 – «Kronstadt…» (May 2017), A5 format, 400 pages, more than 150 illustrations. https://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/140870489/
The book-almanac No. 3 – «Vladivostok. Hospital. Participation in the Russo-Japanese War…» (August 2017), A5 format, 400 pages, 150 illustrations, E-version: https://www.litres.ru/aleksandr-cymbal/vladivostok-istoriya-mediciny/.
And on other sites: https://ridero.ru/books/vladivostok_1/; https://ru.bookmate.com/books/IoQCeh2v; https://ridero.ru/books/vladivostok_1/ https://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/142027376/
The book-almanac «Arkhangelsk. Severodvinsk…» (October 2017), A5 format, 400 pages, 150 illustrations; https://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/160422081/?stat=YW5fMQ%3D%3D
The book-almanac «Crimea. Sevastopol» (June 2018), A5 format, 500 pages, 200 illustrations. https://www.litres.ru/kollektiv-avtorov/krym-sevastopol-235-let-chernomorskomu-flotu-rf/chitat-onlayn/
The book-almanac «Saint Petersburg. 310 years of CNM» (July 2019), A4 format, 630 pages, 458 illustrations. https://ridero.ru/books/sankt-peterburg_310_let_centralnomu_voenno-morskomu_muzeyu/
An art album «Sevastopol» (2008) was published in the series «PORTS OF THE WORLD»,
136 graphic works with the urban landscape of white-stone Sevastopol – Chersonesus: http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/4179855/?gclid=CKr0vem3jNYCFY0A0wodvDAMZw
In all by June 2019 our books have been purchased by five thousand people, which indicates the demand for our book series.
«Arkhangelsk. Severodvinsk» is particularly popular, – interest in the Russian North and the northern sea route (Arkhangelsk – Vladivostok) is not fading. They are followed by «Sevastopol», " Kronstadt» in popularity.
