The book industry hit by the coronavirus pandemic will need about two to three years to recover and return to 2019 figures, President of the Russian Book Union Sergey Stepashin told reporters.

"It will take another two to three years to get back to 2019, it's about bookstores, sales, libraries. But people in the pandemic began to read more, this interest is important to maintain," he said at the Red Square festival.

The Red Square festival opened in Moscow on Thursday and will run until June 20. The program includes more than 500 events on the traditional thematic sites: "fiction", "Children's and educational literature", "Non-fiction", "Regions of Russia", "E-book", "Antique and second-hand books", "Moscow - literary metropolis", "National history", "Museum line", "Literary salon" and "Main stage". Publishers from 45 Russian regions from Tyumen to the Crimea will present their books at the festival.

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Author: Karina Kamalova