[First Tolkien`s book for Russian blinds] John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. A fairy tale story. In four books. by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - 1982: The first Braille edition

The first and only edition of "The Hobbit" for the blind in Russian translation. The first translation and the first separate edition in Russian was published in 1976. The Braille edition is made from this Russian translation. The circulation is 300 copies. It is very rare, it is absent even in the Russian State Library for the Blind, especially in other libraries of Russia and the world.

The first Russian edition in Braille was created in 1885. Anna Alexandrovna Adler (1856-1924) for the first time in Russia began publishing books for the blind according to the system of L. Braille, having founded at her own expense in the village of Troitskoye, near Podolsk, a printing house of relief-dot font. On her initiative, the first public reading room for blind readers was opened in the Rumyantsev Museum in Moscow (now the Russian State Library) and the collection of Braille books was launched, which was subsequently transferred to the Library for the Blind. Since 1898, the first Braille magazine in Russia called "Leisure for the Blind" began to be published. In 1924, the publication of the first Soviet books on the Braille system was undertaken. In 1936, the editorial office of literature for the blind was created at the educational and pedagogical publishing house in Moscow. At that time, in connection with the introduction of universal education, mass Braille teaching of adult illiterate blind people began, and therefore the editorial staff was mainly engaged in textbooks for primary schools and manuals for the elimination of illiteracy. At about the same time, the training of the blind in national languages was introduced in the union and autonomous republics, which led to the creation of Ukrainian, Tatar, Georgian, Uzbek and other Braille alphabets. Special printing houses and libraries for the blind were created in the USSR, a large number of periodicals and other publications were published in the languages of the peoples of the USSR. With the collapse of the USSR, the circulation of books published in Braille decreased, libraries for the blind and visually impaired began to close.

Copy in good condition, from not exist Soviet library.

As of July 2021, KVK and WorldCat show no one copy outside Russia.