The key facts

  • The procurement request includes 347 book titles worth 500 thousand rubles
  • Among the publications are books about the special military operation, military literature and works by Zakhar Prilepin
  • According to the media, only part of the books are devoted to the special military operation; the rest are fairy tales, detective stories, science fiction and non-fiction

Procurement for a children's and youth library

In Vladimir Region, books are being purchased for a library aimed at children and young people — the list includes publications about the special military operation as well. This is reported by Ostorozhno Media; the Gazeta.Ru editorial team has reviewed the procurement documents. According to them, the request includes 347 titles, and the total budget is half a million rubles.

What is on the list

Among the books directly related to the special military operation are “SVO. The Heat of War” by Denis Grigoryuk, “SVO. I Came Out of Battle Alive…” by Munir Kunafin and “SVO. Barefoot on Glass” by Alexei Stopichev. In addition, the procurement includes military literature — “Penal Battalions” by Alex Gromov and “Lenka, or One of Five Million” by Pavel Astakhov — as well as contemporary journalistic and fiction works, including books by Zakhar Prilepin and Archimandrite Ioann Krestiankin.

Not only military themes

Ostorozhno Media emphasizes that only part of the books in the request are devoted to the special military operation: the collection is also planned to be diversified with fairy tales, detective stories, science fiction and popular science publications. Thus, the procurement covers a wide range of children's and youth literature, with books about the special military operation forming a separate segment within it. No sources report any reaction from the regional authorities or the library to the publication.