Samizdat of Leningrad . 1950s to 1980s . Literary Encyclopedia / Edited by D. Severyukhina; Authors: B. Valley, B. Ivanov, B. Ostanin, D. Severyukhin . - M. : New Literary Review, 2003. — 624 s. , il. — Format 70x100/16. Circulation 2000 copies. — ISBN 5-86793-216-8 . The book is a unique encyclopedia of the Leningrad unofficial literary movement, the history of which covers almost forty years - from the first post-Stalinist years to the collapse of the USSR. It includes biographies of 350 Leningrad poets, prose writers, playwrights, critics and philosophers, as well as more than a hundred essays on samizdat magazines, almanacs and collections, on unofficial literary circles and groups, on illegally operating seminars and conferences. Next to the names of famous writers - Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Andrey Bitov, Gleb Gorbovsky - are the authors whose work for decades was familiar exclusively to samizdat readers: Leonid Aronzon, Roald Mandelstam, Alexander Morev, Viktor Krivulin . Introductory Article B. Valley and D. Severyukhin "Overcoming the mute" is a detailed historical essay dedicated to the Leningrad samizdat. The book has a "Chronicle of Events" section, as well as an extensive bibliographic section. Posted in Article B. Ivanova "Literary generations in Leningrad unofficial literature: 1950s - 1980s" . Photographs (more than 130) of self-publishing authors are published . The encyclopedia is addressed to both specialists - literary critics, philologists, historians, sociologists, and a wide range of people interested in domestic literature.