Republic Press

in the USSR, the aggregate of printed matter published by the Union and autonomous republics. Books, pamphlets, and newspapers, magazines, and other periodic and continuous publications are published under the auspices of republic presses in the languages of the peoples of the USSR. The state registration and statistical accounting of printed matter is conducted by republic book chambers, which exist in all the Union republics, as well as in the Tatar ASSR, the Bashkir ASSR, and the Chuvash ASSR.