On 31 October – 4 November a series of important translation events and activities took place on the margins of the VII Krasnoyarsk Book Fair. One of them was a meeting of young translators of literature with publishers which was coordinated by the School Director Irina Alexeeva and Chief editor of the NLO Publishing house Irina Prokhorova. The meeting discussed issues of cultivating local translation traditions, drawing on the resources of the St. Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation for the benefit of the local translation community, overcoming challenges of the growing translation industry in Russia, as well as publishing houses’ demands in this sphere.