The Higher School of Economics Publishing House was established in 2000. It specializes in scientific literature, textbooks and reference works related to the university’s curricula in economics, management, sociology, political science, psychology, and law, among other disciplines. In 2020, we began publishing audiobooks.

Our publishing history comprises over 3,000 titles. Special attention is paid to the publication of series. These include the series "HSE Textbooks," "HSE Translation Textbooks," "HSE Monographs," "New Sources on Russian History," "Polystoria," the "Project of Serial Monographs on Social, Economic, and Humanities Sciences," and others. In 2024, the first installment of the "Word Factory" series was published, consisting of paired books: a collection of stories by alumni and instructors of the Master's program "Literary Craft" at the HSE School of Philological Studies titled "The Waiting Room," and the educational and methodological collection "A Pot of Stories: Recipes from the Writer's Kitchen."

We have licensed over 300 titles of educational and academic literature from leading world publishers—Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, Stanford University Press, Verso, Polity, and others. Since 2022, our translation portfolio has been supplemented with books whose rights have entered the public domain or were published under a Creative Commons (CC) license.

Over 30% of HSE Publishing House books are published with professional cover design. Our partner, the ABCdesign studio, is a leading Russian book designer. Books are printed on upgraded domestic printing facilities using high-quality imported materials (cardboard, foil, paper, ribbon bookmarks, etc.).

The HSE Publishing House has several book series. The first such project — the HSE Textbooks series — has produced 50 titles since its inception in 2003. In 2009, the Higher School of Economics started a number of serial projects dedicated to major social and economic sciences, as part of our long-term publishing programme. The new series include books by leading Russian scholars and their foreign colleagues. Five series were initially announced: Economic Theory, Social Theory, Political Theory, Theory and Practices of Education, and Cultural Studies. By 2019, a total of 130 titles had been published in these series, and additional 20 titles are currently being prepared for publication.

In 2014, the Theory and Practices of Education series was transformed into the Library of the Educational Studies Journal series, which is populated by the efforts of the namesake journal’s editorial board. This project has resulted in publication of ten books, with further six in the works.

In 2011, we started the HSE Textbook Translations series, dedicated to subjects in HSE’s curriculum. Books from leading academic publishers, such as Cambridge, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford and others, were selected for inclusion in the series. Eight textbooks have already been published: Handbook of Procurement, ed. by Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga, and Giancarlo Spagnolo; The Economics of Social Problems by Julian Le Grand, Carol Propper, and Sarah Smith; Researching Entrepreneurship by Per Davidsson; What Is Anthropology? by Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Communication Power by Manuel Castells; Games and Decision Making by Charalambos Aliprantis and Subir Chakrabarti; Advanced Macroeconomics by David Romer; and Democratization, ed. by Christian Haerpfer, Patrick Bernhagen, Ronald Inglehart, and Christian Welzel. Ten more books are being prepared for publication in the series.

In 2016, we signed an agreement with the Scientific Electronic Library to place HSE Publishing House books in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) database on the eLIBRARY portal. All published books are included in the RSCI. 50% of the placed books are included in the citation core. Since 2023, all publications have been issued with unique eLIBRARY Document Numbers (EDN)—an additional navigational tool for working with books on this platform.

Since 2017, HSE Publishing House books have been assigned Digital Object Identifiers (DOI), facilitating the inclusion of our publications in international academic circulation.

HSE Publishing House supports the distribution of literature within Russia, as well as in CIS and non-CIS countries. The publisher's price list features over 400 print books. 486 books are distributed in electronic format, and 5 books are available in audio format through our partner network. The number of trade partners—wholesalers, retailers, and e-tailers—has reached 150.

Our wholesale partners include book trade firms such as "INFRA-M," "Lennand," "Medlennye Knigi" (Slow Books), and others. Retail coverage includes many bookstores in Moscow: "Biblio-Globus," MDK, "Tsiolkovsky," "Falanster," the "U Kentavra" (RGGU) bookshop, the specialized business book store "Akademiya" (at RANEPA), and others. We also widely use urban cultural venues that have recently opened their own shops: the "Garage" Museum of Contemporary Art, the Anatoly Zverev Museum, the Gilyarovsky Center, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the "Zotov" Center for Constructivism Research, and others. Our books are also available in stores in St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Voronezh, Stavropol, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Tula, Kazan, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and other cities.

HSE Publishing House actively supplies its books to library collections, cooperating with library suppliers such as the Central Library Collector "BIBKOM," the Krasnoyarsk Library Supplier, the Center for Library Acquisition, as well as directly with libraries of various levels: the Nekrasov and Turgenev libraries in Moscow, university libraries in various cities, and regional and city libraries in Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Vladimir, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Samara, St. Petersburg, Omsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yaroslavl, and others. Foreign libraries build their Russian collections through the company IVIS (Information Services) and the catalog of Natalia Kozmenko, which features many of our books.

HSE Publishing House books are widely represented in major Russian online stores like Labirint, MYSHOP, BMM, urss.ru, etc. They are also confidently promoted on marketplaces such as Ozon and Wildberries.

Our electronic publications are distributed by leading aggregators of electronic resources: "Litres," "Electronic Univers," "University Library Online," Biblio Rossica, "Lan," and others. A catalog of electronic editions with direct links from the descriptions to the corresponding pages of our strategic partner and Russia's largest B2C electronic content aggregator, "Litres," has been created on the HSE Publishing House website. This allows website visitors to purchase our e-books "in one click." E-books are available to readers in various formats: PDF, EPUB, MOBI, etc. We are actively developing this promising direction, which makes books accessible to readers everywhere, regardless of the presence of bookstores or pick-up points for online orders. HSE Publishing House e-books are available to subscribers of the STROKI service from MTS.

Our proprietary retail is conducted through the University Bookstore "BukVyshka," which has two retail locations in central Moscow: on Myasnitskaya St., 20, and in the HSE complex on Pokrovsky Boulevard (catering primarily to internal demand). The stores primarily sell the university's own products: books and journals, as well as souvenir merchandise with HSE branding. Alongside HSE Publishing House books, the stores feature books from other Russian and foreign publishers. The HSE Publishing House online store (https://id.hse.ru/shop/) is operational, allowing customers to order our books for delivery to any of 38,000 post offices across Russia.

We ensure active promotion of our published academic and educational literature. We continue to actively participate in book events in Russia and CIS countries. These include leading capital events: the "Krasnaya Ploshchad" (Red Square) festival, the International Book Fair Non/fiction (both spring and winter), the Moscow International Book Fair, and the St. Petersburg International Book Salon. Our books are also present at regional festivals, such as the "Rassvet" (Dawn) Smart Book Fair in Moscow (spring and autumn), book fairs in Peredelkino, the "Smeny" Book Festival in Kazan (summer and winter), the "Krasnaya Stroka" festival in Yekaterinburg, "Kitovras" in Vladimir, "Boulevard" in Tver, the book festival in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and others. Our books are traditionally featured on Russian national stands at the Minsk International Book Fair, the Eurasian International Book Fair "Eurasian Book Fair" in Astana, the Tehran International Book Fair, the Tashkent International Book Fair "Tashkent Book Fest," and the Kazakhstan International Book and Printing Exhibition "Along the Great Silk Road" in Almaty. Books are also presented within the academic community: book sales are organized during the April International Conference at HSE, the RISA Convention at MGIMO, the International Moscow Academic Economic Forum at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and others.

In 2023, HSE Publishing House books were featured in 13 public presentations and discussions; some were held at HSE, but the majority took place at external public venues: the Non/fiction International Book Fair, the Voznesensky Center, the ArtPlay Design Center, the GULAG History Museum in Moscow, and the Volga-Vyatka branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal) in Nizhny Novgorod.

Articles and reviews about HSE Publishing House books are published in the media. The popular science portal IQ.HSE.RU regularly posts book excerpts with commentary. Reviews are published by the news portal "Baikal-Info." Excerpts and reviews are also published on the websites Afisha, "Gorky," PostNauka, "God Literatury," specialized professional portals "Econs" and VC, and in magazines such as Garage magazine, "Ogonyok," "Vlast," Psychologies, and others.

A Russian-language publisher's catalog is produced. The HSE Publishing House website on the HSE portal is maintained in two languages. We maintain pages on Telegram and VKontakte.

HSE Publishing House has been awarded all major Russian professional publishing awards. We have two book "Oscars": awards from the All-Russian Publishing Competition "Book of the Year" (2003 and 2018), and the "Prosvetitel" (Enlightener) Prize (2016). Our books have repeatedly been winners of the All-Russian "University Book" Competition, the All-Russian Publishing Competition of the Association of Russian Book Publishers "Best Books of the Year," the annual B.A. Grushin Sociological Prize, and the Competition for the Best Russian-Language Research and Popular Science Works by HSE Staff. The quality of our translations is attested by international translation awards—the Prix Maurice Waxmachere (France) and the Merck Prize (Germany).

With the support of HSE Publishing House, ten leading HSE scientific journals are published and distributed: "Educational Studies," "HSE Economic Journal," "Public Administration Issues," "Law. Journal of the Higher School of Economics," "Foresight," "International Organisations Research Journal," "Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics," "Logos," "Urban Studies and Practices," "Intellectual Property Issues," as well as the analytical review "Russian Economy: Trends and Prospects." All scientific journals are included in the list of publications recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education and in the Russian Science Citation Index. Thanks to a professional distribution system, our periodicals have become accessible throughout the country and abroad. Subscriptions are handled by leading Russian and international agencies: "Kniga-Servis," "Ural-Press Okrug," "Profizdat," "Pressinform," "Ruspressexport," "Ruspressa," the creative communication agency "Creative Service Band," etc. Subscribers are predominantly libraries of universities, research institutions, enterprises, and schools.

Director of the HSE Publishing House Elena Ivanova