The publisher featured the "titans" of Soviet science, including Nobel laureate Lev Landau Yakov Perelman (famous for "Physics for Entertainment"), and Boris Gnedenko Famous Series: Science for Everyone
Subsidized by the Soviet state, Mir books were sold at incredibly low prices. A massive hardcover volume on theoretical physics could be bought for the price of a lunch. This economic accessibility made them staples in university libraries and personal collections. editorial mir moscu