The Central Ural Publishing House (Russian: Средне-Уральское книжное издательство, romanized: Sredne-Uralskoe knizhnoe izdatelstvo), formerly the Sverdlovsk Publishing House (Russian: Свердловское книжное издательство, romanized: Sverdlovskoe knizhnoe izdatelstvo), was a Soviet and Russian book publisher head-quartered in Yekaterinburg.
[2] It was initially called Uralgosizdat (Russian: Уралгосиздат, Уральское областное отделение Государственного издательства, romanized: Uralskoe oblastnoe otdelenie Gosudarstvennogo izdatelstva, lit.
It published propaganda brochures, posters, leaflets, the first alphabet book for adults in the Soviet Union.
[3] In 1934 it was renamed to the Sverdlovsk Publishing House,[2] abbreviated as Sverdlgiz (Russian: Свердлгиз, Свердловское областное государственное издательство, romanized: Sverdlovskoe oblastnoe gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo).
The number of published titles gradually decreased through the years, e.g. 104 books were released in 1979, but only 26 in 1997.