History of publishing activities of Lutheran communities in St. Petersburg: evangelical Lutheran church of Ingria in Russia

One of the largest modern Lutheran churches in our country, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria in Russia was founded in 1992. Since its foundation, the Church has been engaged in publishing activities, releasing both periodicals and books in Russian. In view of the fact that the Church does not distribute its publications commercially and, for this reason, does not maintain a systematic retrospective and current bibliographic record of publishing products, this article appears to be the most complete bibliographic review of the publishing repertoire of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria for the entire period of its existence. The purpose of the review is to identify thematic areas of ELCI publishing activities, as well as the main stages of its development and the features of the publishing policy. Most of the publications presented in the review have been analyzed de visu by the author. Within the review, methods of interaction between the Church and various foundations and publishing houses were also considered.