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Voenizdat (Russian: Воениздат) is a publishing house in Moscow, Russia. It was one of the oldest and biggest publishing houses in USSR, and remains so in Russia. The name is a Russian abbreviation for "Voennoe Izdatelstvo", meaning "Military Publication".

Voenizdat was established by Revvoyensoviet on October 25, 1919. The initial aim was to publish literature for the needs of Ministry of Defence. It now publishes both fiction and non-fiction literature, technical manuals and dictionaries.