Orientyr is the first Ukrainian publishing house founded by veterans of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The mission of the publishing house: Collecting the ideas that will change Ukrainian society in the nearest future. The publishing house focuses on military and revolutionary memoirs. The co-founder of the publishing house, Mykola Kruk Kravchenko, gave his life in the battles for Kyiv region on March 14, 2022.

Ruslan Khalikov’s Publishing House specializes in religious studies, philosophy and esotericism. It released academic studies of narrow-profile Ukrainian and international researchers, important primary sources and thematic fiction works.

Ruslan David Serbov is the man who went by helicopter to help the garrison in the occupied city of Mariupol, and got wounded during heavy fighting in Azovstal. That is why he shares memories of fierce battles, painful losses, of the living and fallen heroes who distinguished themselves in the battles for the city. Mariupol. The Book of the Brave is not only a story, it is a memory of those days. The exploits of those events will live forever. For 82 days, the fighters of Azov and the Border Guards, the Marines, units of the Territorial Defense Forces and other adjacent units had been holding back the enemy’s enormous onslaught, that allowed other troops in other cities to gain a foothold and cooperate in order not to lose the whole Ukraine. The exploit of those days should not be forgotten, as well as the names of the servicemen and servicewomen who did not hide in basements, did not seek salvation behind thick walls, but every day destroyed the enemy, sacrificing their lives. These are the people I describe in this book, their names will live forever.

Oleh Kostiuk is a Ukrainian writer, a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war, who went to the front line as a volunteer in 2015. For one year and a half, he had served on the front line in the east of Ukraine. He wrote two books: Frontline (short stories, 2021) and Sorrow and Madness (an anti-novel, 2022). In the anti-novel Sorrow and Madness the hero plunges into the atmosphere of the Russian-Ukrainian war and faces death. This changes him, forces him to analyze his life and perceive it in a new way.

At the beginning of the large-scale war in 2022, Yevhen Dubrovskyi went to the front line as a volunteer and served in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a military doctor of a combat battalion in Donbas, within the 110th brigade, which was performing the task of defending Avdiivka. In 2023, he was demobilized and received the status of a combatant. He is awarded War Veteran, For Impeccable Medical Service and For the Defense of Avdiivka medals.

There is no notebook more recognizable than Moleskine. They have become an integral part of the image of a creative person and, despite the prevalence of various gadgets, the popularity of Moleskine notebooks is only growing.

Military Cultural Forces unite artists-servicemen/servicewomen whose efforts aim at improving the moral and psychological state of the troops with the help of culture and art. Within the initiative A Book for the Front Line, we provide the military servicemen and servicewomen with relevant literature that helps them get distracted from the daily routine of service.

The stand of museum editions, that presented little-known niche literature, created in the recesses of the museum walls and published in micro print runs, first appeared at the 6th International Book Arsenal Festival in 2016. Throughout all the years of its existence, it has been showing the linear development of museum book publishing from the crisis of the 1990s to reaching a new level after 2014, when a museum edition changed the format of a unique scientific work and turned into the artistic one. But then the coronavirus epidemic broke out, which turned ordinary life upside down, transforming the activities of museums into the online format, which at the same time opened up new opportunities. The full-scale invasion of Russia in 2022 put both the life of museums and the life of every Ukrainian on the brink of existence. Deinstalling the main exhibitions, partial evacuation of the most valuable, protection of museum buildings, small architectural forms made of sand and plywood around them, mobilization of male employees, emigration of female employees, often the young and active ones, abroad and hence the outflow of personnel, missile destruction of certain museum premises and monuments, organization of work under the conditions of blackouts, power outages and continuous shelling, constant conversations about the mission of museums, the future and the challenges that are still ahead—and the continuation of scientific, research work and museum book publishing against the background of all this.

Within the 12th Book Arsenal, the stand Museum Publishing of Ukraine, as a project of the Mystetskyi Arsenal, will collect everything that was published in museums from the second half of 2019 to present day, regardless of genre, subject or age category, in order to show the museum book publishing of the life on the edge period, in which our colleagues demonstrate exceptional professional resilience.

Ihromah Store and Publishing House is your reliable guide in the world of board games! For 16 years, we have been delighting Ukrainian players with original and exciting board games and filling their lives with the magic of interesting leisure. Ihromah Store offers board games to children and adults, companies of two or more people, to families with children, as well as to a friendly company and even a team in the office.

This is a whole range of products that, depending on age, logic and company, will allow players to have fun. Each board game has its own traditions, rules and history. Custom-made board games can develop such character traits of a player as resistance to difficulties, logical and strategic thinking, attention, memory, the ability to negotiate, as well as to plan own actions and learn the basics of economics.

Ukrainian Puzzles is a social business that started in April 2022 with the idea of producing and selling jigsaw puzzles depicting cultural property that was destroyed or damaged by Russia in the war against Ukraine. The symbolic reconstruction from puzzle pieces is at the same time a small contribution to the real reconstruction, as the net profit will be spent on reconstruction. New collections of puzzles are also being developed, namely: Ukrainian Art, Open Ukraine and Glory to Ukraine.