Enlighteners of 2017

On June 15, 2017, the Long list of the 2017 Enlightener Prize was published-a traditional list of 25 books. Over the summer of the jury, the prize will have to get acquainted with all books and by the beginning of October to vote for a short list - it will be announced on October 4, 2017. The awarding ceremony of the laureates will be held on November 16 in Moscow.

1. Baldin Andrey. "The new letter -oscope, or the prohibitive journey of Nikolai Karamzin." M.: Boslen, 2016.
2. Bronovitskaya Anna, Malinin Nikolai. “Moscow: Architecture of Soviet modernism. 1955-1991. Guide reference book. " M.: Museum of Modern Art "Garage", 2016.
3. Varlamova Daria, Anton Zayniev. “Go crazy! Guide to mental disorders for a resident of the big city. " M.: Alpina Plisher, 2016.
4. Vodovozov Alexey. “The patient is reasonable. Traps of “medical diagnostics” that everyone should know about. ” M.: Exmo, 2017.
5. Drobyshevsky Stanislav. "Given the link" (in two volumes). Book One. "Monkey and all-all-all." The second book. "People". M.: Corpus, 2017.
6. Efishov Ivan. “Mysterious pages. Entertaining cryptography. " M.: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2016.
7. Ivanova Anna. “Berezka shops: consumption paradoxes in the late USSR.” M.: New Literary Review, 2017.
8. Ilyakhin Yuri. "China with pieces." St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Oriental Studies, 2016.
9. Kazantseva Asya. “On the Internet, someone is wrong! Scientific research of controversial issues. " M.: Corpus, 2016.
10. Kozlova Alena, Mikhailov Nikolay, Ostrovskaya Irina, Irina Shcherbakova. “The sign will not be erased. The fate of the Ostarbeters in letters, memoirs and oral stories. ” M.: Agey Tomesh Publishing House, 2016.
11. Kolonitsky Boris. “Comrade Kerensky. The antimonarchic revolution and the formation of the cult of the “leader of the people”. March - June 1917. " M.: New Literary Review, 2017.
12. Konstantinov Alexander. “Entertaining radiation. All you wanted to ask: what scares us, what we are afraid of, what we should actually be afraid, how to reduce the risks. ” SPb.: Super Publishing House LLC, 2017.
13. Kretschmar Mikhail. “The Siberian Book. The history of the conquest of the lands and peoples of Siberian. ” M.: Accounting and banks, 2014.
14. Kurilla Ivan. "History, or the past in the present." St. Petersburg: Publishing House of the European University in St. Petersburg, 2017.
15. Litvak Nelli, Raigorodsky Andrey. “Who needs mathematics? A clear book about how the digital world works. ” M.: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2017.
16. MAROV Mikhail. "Space. From the solar system deep into the universe. " M.: Fizatlit, 2017.
17. Makhov Vadim. “The happy clover of mankind. The general history of discoveries, technology, competition and wealth. ” M.: Alpina Plisher, 2017.
18. Petukhov Alexey. "Ark and art of France of the first quarter of the XX century." M.: Bogsmart, 2016.
19. Pipper Alexander. “The design of languages. From Esperanto to Dotraki. ” M.: Alpina Non-Fix, 2017.
20. Dmitry win. "Attic. Only physics, only hardcore! ” M.: AST, 2016.
21. Savelyev Vladimir. “Statistics and cats. The most friendly book about data analysis. ” M.: Publishing service Ridero, 2016.
22. Skorenko Tim. “Invented in Russia. The history of Russian inventive thought from Peter I to Nicholas II. ” M.: Alpina Non-Fix, 2017.
23. Sokolov Alexander. “Do scientists hide? Myths of the XXI century. " M.: Alpina Non-Fix, 2017.
24. Timofeevsky Alexander. "Spring of the Middle Ages." St. Petersburg: Session, 2016.
25. Frank-Kamenetsky Maxim. “The most important molecule. From the structure of DNA to biomedicine of the 21st century. ” M.: Alpina Non-Fix, 2017.

The books of the long list were selected by the Organizing Committee of the Prize, chaired by publicist, TV presenter Alexander Arkhangelsk and literary critic Alexander Gavrilov. According to the rules of the award, each finalist will receive a cash prize of 100 thousand rubles, and each winner - 700 thousand rubles. Cash certificate of 130 thousand rubles. Publishers of laureates books are traditionally awarded to promote books in the market.

In addition, in the framework of the library program of the award annually more than 100 libraries of Russia, all books of their short list and several books of the Library of the Dynasty Foundation are sent. This year, this is Tatyana Zarubina’s book “From Dinosaur to Compote. Scientists answer 100 (and another 8) questions about everything. ” M.: Pink Giraffe, 2017.