Publishing house Enlightenment
Russia
Central Federal District of the Russian Federation
Moscow
127521, 3rd passage of Maryina Grove, 41
Top managers:
Tretyak Natalia Vladimirovna
Owners:
Sberbank - 25%
ВЭБ.РФ (formerly Vnesheconombank) - 25%
Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) - 25%
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OAO Publishing House "Enlightenment" is a publishing house of educational and methodological literature with an almost 85-year history. Until 1991, Enlightenment was the only publishing house in the country to produce school textbooks.
Participating in the development of modern didactics, multimedia educational resources, innovative educational products, components of the information and educational environment, the publishing house determines the main priority to create a comprehensive product for the educational process, including textbooks, maps, atlases, dictionaries, teaching aids, programs, workbooks, equipment for school rooms, as well as furniture for preschool institutions.
Each year, the Publishing House produces about 90 million textbooks and additional manuals, that is, an average of almost 250 thousand copies per day. The share of the publishing house in the market of educational literature is 30%. The same share is occupied by the textbooks of the publishing house in the Federal List of textbooks for 2014-2015. academic year.
History
2023: New CEO - Natalia Tretyak
Natalya Tretyak, former vice president of Gazprombank, has been appointed the new general director of the Prosveshchenie publishing house. This became known on March 7, 2023. Read more here.
2021: Sber, ВЭБ.РФ and RDIF buy 25% each in Enlightenment
On May 18, 2021, it became known that Sber, ВЭБ.РФ and RDIF were buying 25% each from Enlightenment. As part of this transaction, 100% of the publishing house is estimated at 108 billion rubles, so the acquisition of 75% will cost buyers 81 billion rubles if it does not take place as part of an additional issue.
 | This deal is a continuation of many years of joint work aimed at combining efforts in the development of modern Russian education, - said in a press release published on the Sberbank website. |  |
The new shareholder structure is expected to be established in June 2021. The board of directors of Enlightenment will include eight directors - two representatives from Sberbank, RDIF, ВЭБ.РФ and the current shareholders of the publishing house. The current (by May 18, 2021) group management will continue to manage operations, the bank assured.
It is assumed that the concluded deal will create conditions for increasing the export potential of educational products and the development of school infrastructure, including according to the model of public-private partnership.
Also, cooperation should expand access for teachers, students and parents in the Russian Federation to the proven educational content of "Enlightenment." Modern digital technologies, services and competencies possessed by partners will allow developing new generation educational content, providing a personalized approach to each student and new educational process management tools for the teacher, Sberbank said.
| | Combining the resources of our ecosystem and partner companies with Prosveshchenie JSC creates new opportunities for the development of the entire education sector and the achievement of the country's national development goals, "said German Gref, President of Sberbank, quoted by the bank's press service.[1] | |
2019: Creation of a joint venture with ICS Holding
On June 6, 2019, ICS Holding and the Enlightenment group of companies announced the creation of a joint digital enterprise - IT Enlightenment. Its main task is to develop products for solving practical problems in the field of education: educational process management systems, digital educational and methodological complexes, a marketplace for teachers, students and their parents, and other digital products and technologies in the fields of B2B and B2G. Read more here.
2017
"Rostelecom" and "Enlightenment" signed a cooperation agreement
On July 13, 2017, a cooperation agreement was signed between PJSC Rostelecom and Prosveshchenie Publishing House JSC. The document was signed by President of PJSC Rostelecom Mikhail Oseevsky and President of JSC Enlightenment Management Company Vladimir Uzun.
Under the terms of the agreement, the parties express their intention to jointly implement a project to create and promote an educational platform, including products for the general, secondary and higher vocational education market and aimed at developing the infrastructure of the education system of the Russian Federation.
In order to implement the Project, the Parties will create a joint venture, the work of which will be aimed at developing e-education services, introducing solutions for school information and library centers and recruiting libraries of educational organizations with electronic educational resources. Cooperation is also aimed at the development of a single electronic educational space, the introduction of electronic forms of textbooks, books, methodological materials and courses, and will also provide the basis for the creation of comprehensive services for organizing distance learning and advanced training of teachers with the participation of the Enlightenment Academy.
Company transformation
In 2017, the company was transformed, within the framework of which the Management Company and three divisions were allocated: Prosveshchenie Publishing House, Prosveshchenie Academy JSC and Prosveshchenie-Region Trading House LLC.
2016: Publisher invests in start-ups
On October 10, 2016, Enlightenment Publishing House announced its intentions to invest in educational startups as part of a market entry strategy.
The strategic partner of the publishing house will be the Internet Initiatives Development Fund: Enlightenment will find and choose projects for investment through the infrastructure and mechanisms of the Fund. The publishing house expects to invest up to 3 billion rubles in this area.
Startups that have submitted applications to the Accelerator IIDF in the specialized direction of edutech will be able to attract investments from Enlightenment. The focus of the set is educational platforms, solutions for e-education and various online courses (MOOC), projects in the field of technology and robotics for training, virtual and in technologies augmented reality , education specific projects within the framework of educational and methodological literature, social projects that allow a person to learn throughout life, develop personal skills.
| | We consistently help startups build ties with top strategists - leading companies in their industries, in order to facilitate young projects to jump into development already at the start and accelerate business scaling. The Prosveshchenie publishing house is the largest player in the Russian education market, so we are very glad that the publishing house, in partnership with the IIDF, will be at the forefront of the digitalization of education. | |
| | As digital solutions take more and more place in our daily lives, they, together with modern techniques, fundamentally change the approaches to the educational process. The decision we made will not only support and introduce interesting and effective technologies of startups in the field of education, but also help students to master the knowledge and competencies that dictate the 21st century, teachers and parents to speak with children "in the same language," and the Russian education system to reach a new qualitative level. Vladimir Uzun, President of the Publishing House "Enlightenment" | |
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