Book shopping in Russia
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Delovye Melochi Bookshop
Maps are very hard to find but are sometimes stocked in Delovye Melochi Bookshop in the basement next to Kafe Dom Pechati. It also sells decent Russian language guides to Tuva (R200).
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Anglia
This is one of Moscow’s oldest English-language bookshops, carrying an impressive selection of contemporary literature and reference books. If you are not up for Anna Karenina in Russian, this is also a good place to pick up your English translation. The sale of used books benefits a local children’s charity.
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Biblio-Globus
Moscow’s favourite bookshop is huge, with lots of reference and souvenir books on language, art and history, and a good selection of maps and travel guides. Just to prove that Russia’s consumer culture can keep up with the best of them, this old-school bookshop now has a coffee shop on the ground floor.
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Writers’ Bookshop
Specialising in foreign literature, this place is one of the few that carries titles by your favourite Lonely Planet authors. Besides top-notch travel guides, you’ll also find an excellent selection of English-language literature, including English translations of Russian classics and contemporary bestsellers.
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Shakespeare & Co
This tiny store occupies cramped quarters in the basement of an apartment block, giving it an old-school, underground, used-bookstore feel. It is, in fact, the only store with a decent selection of used books, offering a welcome change to the standard English classics that most Russian bookstores carry.
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Bookberry
A slick new chain that includes not only an enormous bookstore, but also a café, a la Barnes & Noble. Bookberry undoubtedly carries the city's best selection of guidebooks and maps, not to mention a host of magazines, reference books and foreign language literature.
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Bukvoed
These bookshops are popping up all over St Petersburg. This is one of the smaller outlets, but it is centrally located and it carries a good selection of maps, art books, posters, calendars and postcards, as well as a smaller selection of English-language literature.
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Dom Knigi
The old Soviet bookshop is changing with the times, with a selection of foreign-language books to rival any other shop in the city. This huge, crowded place holds regularly scheduled readings, children’s programs and other bibliophilic activities.
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Dom Inostrannikh Knig
The House of Foreign Books is a small place with a wide selection of literature in foreign languages. Most books are in English, though there are smaller selections of German, French and other European languages.
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Dom Knigi
A good selection of guidebooks and maps of the city are available on the first floor of this bookshop in the elegant Singer Building.
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Knizhny Mir
One of several bookshops on this street (others are at No 12 and No 17), Knizhny Mir sells Russian-language maps.
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Bookstore No 1
A centrally located bookshop with a good selection of maps, and books about Tatar history and culture.
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John Parsons Bookshop
If they don’t have the English book you’re looking for at Anglia, check at this place next door.
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Knigi Bookshop
Sells excellent Karta-Skhema city maps and Turistskaya Buryatiya advertorial tourist pamphlets.
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Russkoe Slovo
Bookshop Russkoe Slovo stocks unusually helpful maps of other nearby towns.
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Kultprosvet
A small bookshop located on the ground floor of Pushkinskaya 10 art studio.
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Penaty Bookshop
Stocks many useful maps, atlases, postcards and Altai picture books.
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Dobry
There's a bookshop for maps and postcards within this multishop.
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