Helmet Offers a Wide Selection of Contemporary Russian-Language Literature

We’ve become accustomed to getting information from smartphone screens and have almost forgotten about books. Every year, scientific writers, playwrights, novelists, and essayists release interesting works. Many authors are banned or not published in Russia, but here in Finland, we have the wonderful opportunity to familiarize ourselves with their works.

The Helmet library network in the Helsinki metropolitan area offers a wide selection of contemporary Russian-language literature. Simply visit any library in Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen, or Vantaa, show your ID, and get a library card. After that, you can reserve and order the books you're interested in.

Here’s a small selection of books we recommend:

• Dmitry Bykov. VZ. Portrait Against the Nation https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2577006?sid=4800539267

• Viktor Erofeev. The Great Gopnik. Notes on Living and Dead Russia https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2587919?sid=4800411509

• Dmitry Glukhovsky. We. Diary of the Fall

  https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2584496?sid=4800563327

• Sergey Davydov. Five Plays about Freedom https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2577009?sid=4800565715

• Mikhail Durnenkov. Tuaregs: Seven Texts for Theater https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2571919?sid=4800568625

• Daria Serenko. I Wish My Home to Turn to Ashes https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2570120?sid=4800571442

• Catherine Belton. Putin's People. How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West

  https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2544911?sid=4800584357

• Mikhail Fishman. The Successor. The Story of Boris Nemtsov and the Country Where He Didn’t Become President

  https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2516664?sid=4800611651

• Ilya Barabanov and Denis Korotkov. Our Business Is Death https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2585740?sid=4800584252

• Tamara Eidelman. How Propaganda Works https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2552300?sid=4800586958

• Kira Yarmysh. Incredible Events in Women's Cell No. 3 https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2455243?sid=4800591125

• Mikhail Zygar. War and Punishment: How Russia Destroyed Ukraine https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2565987?sid=4800591920

  
  

You can also find the latest novels by Daria Dontsova in the library, but we won’t be recommending those :)

With colder days ahead, now is the perfect time to stock up on a good book and some warming tea ☕️