Russian Children Research Articles

Age-related features of sensitization to chicken egg white in children with allergic diseases

BACKGROUND: International studies have shown that egg allergy is one of the main causes of IgE-mediated food allergies in children.
 THIS STUDY AIMED TO analyze the frequency and rate of sensitization to white egg of Russian children, depending on the sex and age.
 MATERIALS AND METHODS: Anti-egg white-specific IgE antibodies were measured in children with symptoms of food allergy, such as nausea, vomiting, stool disorder developing after eating, mucosal edema, upper respiratory tract edema, urticaria, and exacerbation of eczema (4981 patients aged 6 months to 18 years). The frequency and degree of sensitization in various age groups were analyzed.
 RESULTS: In this study, 29.5% of the children had anti-egg white IgE antibodies. Low (31.6%, IgE=0.350.69 kU/L) and moderate (40.2%, IgE=0.703.5 kU/L) sensitizations were the most common. An extremely high level of anti-egg white antibodies (IgE 50.0 kU/L) was observed in 6.2% of the patients. In the first year of life, sensitization was detected in 39% of the cases. In older age groups, the frequency of positive responses decreased. compared with those in the younger groups. The dependence of sensitization frequencies on sex was found in children aged 12 years. Frequencies of egg sensitization in girls aged 1214 and 1418 were statistically significantly lower than those in boys of the same age. The dependence of the response severity on the patients age was also noted: a decrease in the frequency of highly positive responses and an increase in proportion of patients with medium or low IgE levels in the older group. The severity of the IgE response decreased by age 12 and 14 years in girls and boys, respectively.
 CONCLUSION: The detection frequency of specific IgE antibodies to the extract of allergens of chicken egg white was the highest in children in the first year of life. These parameters decrease in older children; аfter the age of 12, the response severity and frequency were associated with the patients sex. The tendency of the number of patients with chicken egg white allergen-specific IgE antibodies and their quantitative level in adolescence to decrease may be evidence of the development of tolerance to this food product.

The zoo in the Russian children`s book of the 1920s

The article analyzes the most interesting and revealing “picture books” of the 1920s, united by the theme of visiting the zoo (menagerie), so beloved by the children`s audience. This topic was addressed by famous masters of various directions: animalists who followed the traditions of realistic illustration of the late XIX – early XX centuries (V.A. Vatagin, A.N. Komarov), OST graphics (N.N. Kupreyanov, Yu.I. Pimenov), avant-gardists (V.M. Ermolaeva, K.M. Zdanevich). Their works allow for a comparison of different artistic approaches to the subject, revealing characteristic narrative patterns and genre clichés found in such publications, as well as typical images and graphic techniques.

«ХОЛОДНЫЙ, УПРЯМЫЙ ВЕТЕР, НЕ ПУСКАВШИЙ ВЕСНУ». СВОИ И ЧУЖИЕ В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ПРОЗЕ ДЛЯ ДЕТЕЙ

This article analyses the images of “us”, the “other” and the “enemy” on the example of three books describing the contemporary military conflict through the eyes of a child (“Vovka, who rode a bomb”, KompasGuide, 2018) and teenagers (Anna Zenkova, “Scorpion’s Strike”, KompasGuide, 2021 and Andrei Bulbenko, Marta Kaidanovskaya, “Sit and Watch”, Samokat, 2022). In contrast to the established tradition in Soviet and Russian children’s literature about war, in particular about the Great Patriotic War, where “us” and “the enemy” are always clearly defined, personalized and endowed with a stable set of features, in the works under consideration here the circle of “us” is extremely narrow, questioned and reconstructed by the distrustful and ironic narrator, while the “enemy” is present in the form of an faceless aggressor, represented through comparisons and metaphors as an violent natural element that brings destruction and death. Thus, these works stand apart from the general trend of bringing the “other”, present in children’s literature of recent decades, returning rather to more ancient traditions of representing the enemy.

The Romanov Dynasty and Youth Movements in the Russian Empire and Emigration of the "First Wave"

The subject of the study is the influence of the Romanov family on the formation, development and ideology of Russian extracurricular organizations in the first half of the XX century. The author also examines in detail such aspects of the topic as the symbolic significance of the Romanovs' membership in children's associations and the role of the institution of patronage of organizations in preserving imperial traditions in the emigration of the "first wave". The connection of the Grand Dukes with the youth movements of the Union of Musketeers and the Order of Crusaders, which were active in the second half of the 1920s - early 1930s in Harbin and in the exclusion zone of the Chinese–Eastern Railway, is also considered. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the broad formulation of the question: 5 organizations have been considered for 3 decades. As a result of the conducted research, it is concluded that the ruling dynasty had a great influence on the emergence of children's and youth organizations in the Russian Empire. Their creation began with the initiative of Nicholas II in 1908 . Subsequently, for many decades, members of the Romanov family were patrons and participants of various Russian children's movements. Many of these movements, in turn, have made monarchism an important component of their ideology. In addition to Nicholas II, before the revolution, the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna provided assistance in the development of the scout movement, the heir to the throne was an honorary scout, and his second cousin Georgy Konstantinovich was no longer an honorary, but a real scout of the Tsarskoye Selo detachment.

«ОТ БРЕВЕНЧАТОЙ ХИЖИНЫ ДО БЕЛОГО ДОМА»: БИОГРАФИИ АМЕРИКАНСКИХ ПРЕЗИДЕНТОВ В РУССКОЙ КНИГЕ ДЛЯ ДЕТСКОГО ЧТЕНИЯ ВТОРОЙ ПОЛОВИНЫ XIX ВЕКА

The article discusses biographies of American presidents written and published by Russian writers in the second half of the 19th century. The biographies were predominantly original texts, based on documents, books, and other diverse sources in English. The paper analyzes the context of the era and the specifics of America-Russia relations in the second half of the 19th century, when several American presidents (Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, James Garfield) were the subjects of biographical narratives created by children’s writers Maria Rostovskaya, Alexander Khrebtov, Alexander Lyubimov, Anna Munt-Valueva, Alexan- dra Annenskaya, Catherine Sysoeva, and A. Platonov. The work identifies the techniques used in the biographies to construct the image of the hero- president, and the reasons why writers turned to the figure of the American president as an ideal model for emulation in the Russian children’s book. The identified plot features help to clarify the specifics of the genre model, which used the Bildungsroman. The narrative about the “thorny” life path of the presidents allowed the writers to demonstrate to the children the hard work and will of the characters, the results of the career (presidency, fame, independence of the country), emphasized the value of these qualities for the reader-child, and thanks to the genre specifics, the psychological, moral, and social formation of the personality of the hero-American was revealed.

МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ «L’AUTRE DANS LA LITTÉRATURE DE JEUNESSE RUSSE»

This review reports on the international research conference « L’autre dans la littérature de jeunesse russe » (“The Other” in Russian Children’s Literature) held at the Clermont Auvergne University. The conference was organised by the Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique (CELIS) and brought together specialists in children’s literature from Russia, France and Italy. Ten papers were presented in which the category of “Stranger/Other” was considered in the material of Russian children’s literature of different epochs and directions and placed in the context of contemporary world research on the agency of the child. The researchers focus on the works of individual authors (Arkady Gaidar), genres and subgenres of children’s literature (zoofiction, fantasy, science fiction, non-fiction), historical and cultural phenomena (children’s books of “Russian abroad”), various aspects of representation of the “other” (corporality, category “fat / slim”), themes (perception of war in modern children’s literature), individual works (“Leto v Pionerskom Galstuke” (“Summer in a pioneer tie”) by Katerina Silvanova and Elena Malisova). The survey gives a brief summary of the presentations, draws attention to the variety of methods and approaches of the researchers, and characterizes the significance of the conference as a whole.

Интертекстуальные отсылки в современной российской прозе для детей и подростков как отражение дихотомии «свое - чужое»

The aim of the study is to identify the functions of intertextual references in modern Russian children’s and young adult prose in the aspect of the “one’s own - alien” dichotomy. The paper examines intertextual references (allusions, quotations) found in works of modern literature in Russian and addressed to children and adolescents. The scientific originality of the study lies in determining the functions of intertextual references reflecting the “one’s own - alien” dichotomy at the intratextual and metatextual levels in works for children and adolescents. The paper analysed children’s and young adult prose works written in the XXI century in Russian, highlighted references to works of Russian and foreign literature, determined the functions of the identified intertextual references in the aspect of the “one’s own - alien” opposition at the intratextual level associated with plot development and at the metatextual level reflecting the dialogue between the author and the readers. As a result of the study, it has been shown that the text elements under consideration in children’s and young adult works can perform the plot-forming function at the intratextual level and the informative, educational, secret code, emotionally expressive and play functions at the metatextual level.

ДЕТСКИЕ АДАПТАЦИИ РОМАНА ЧАРЛЬЗА ДИККЕНСА «ДЭВИД КОППЕРФИЛЬД» НА РУССКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ

The article describes Russian children’s adaptations of the Charles Dickens novel “David Copperfield”. The purpose of this paper is to find out whether the approach to its translation changed at different historical periods — during the Czarist-era, under the Soviet government and in contemporary Russia. In order to achieve this goal, we have analyzed those “David Copperfield” translations into Russian addressed to the younger audience that are accessible nowadays. The text has been envisaged from the translation studies, as well as philological and culture studies point of view. The study has shown that some Czarist-era translators finished the story with the end of David Copperfield’s childhood misfortunes, others attempted to make a brief account of the novel. In Soviet Union more complete translations were published, accompanied by a larger number of explanatory foot-notes and more commentary. Since the year 2000 there has been no attempt to make a new adaptation of the novel, there have only been published some translations of English adaptations and a revised edition of an older translation. What all the translations have in common is the omission of regional accents and other speech characteristics of Dickens’s characters. None of this seems to be related to the political history of the country, it’s rather due to translation ethics evolution.

FEELING OF LONELINESS IN CHILDREN: DATA FROM THE SURVEY OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS IN THE PROJECT “CHILDREN WELLBEING INDEX”

The feeling of loneliness is a multiple phenomenon, that affects many sides of children’s wellbeing. In order to realize “Russian Child Wellbeing Index” project since  Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation has been collecting “children’s voices” – the survey data of children at the age - and their parents. This information allows us to talk about wellbeing from six points of view in the domains of education, health, material wellbeing, self-realization, security and social relations. Apart from main questions to indicate domain values, there are some supplementary questions, needed for better and wider understanding of wellbeing. One of them is “How often do you feel lonely?” in children’s questionnaire, and the same one in parents’ questionnaire. So, the report is based on the analysis of   children and their parents’ responses regarding the feeling of loneliness. The main outcome is that there is a stable connection between the regularity of the feeling of loneliness and general children wellbeing. Students, who often feel lonely also think that their classmates threaten them worse, they more frequently encountered with bulling, at home their parents scream at them more often, than in typical families and the number of scandals in their families is also bigger. The main risk factors for loneliness are identifi ed. They are the inability to be heard by parents and adults (to a lesser extent this applies to peers), as well as psychological or even physical violence against a child. Moreover, children’s loneliness relates with such parameters as overall life satisfaction, the presence of their own items and a room, the presence of bulling at school and some others. In comparison with children responses parents’ assessment often belittle the role of positive factors and exaggerate the role of negative features. Especially it is true for the question about relations between the child and family.

A link between solar activity and smoke with hemoblastosis in children

The study of the role of environmental factors in the occurrence of human neoplasms is an important task of medical ecology. An indicator of carcinogenic environmental impacts is childhood tumors due to the predominantly prenatal genesis of tumors at this age. In the structure of childhood oncological morbidity, hemoblastosis predominate. The link between the incidence of childhood leukemia and exposure to ultraviolet radiation, the protective role of sun exposure in relation to the risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (NHL) and the absence of such in Hodgkin’s lymphoma in children have been established. There is evidence of the connection between childhood hemoblastosis and smoke of various origins. The aim of the study was to evaluate the link between solar activity and smoke with hemoblastosis in the Russian children. We used official data on the incidence of childhood hemoblastosis in Russia in 1997-2020 and data on solar activity from the site of the Royal Observatory of Belgium. The generated dynamic series was subjected to correlation and regression analysis in 11 consecutive iterations with a time delay (lag) from 0 to 10 years in relation to the year of registration of neoplasms. An increase in the incidence of leukemia and a decrease in the incidence of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the children’s population of Russia have been established. The incidence of NHL in children did not reveal a significant trend. A general pattern was revealed in the form of the connection between childhood leukemia and lymphomas and solar activity, most pronounced in 1997-2008. The increase in the childhood leukemia incidence, taking into account the literature data of the role of exhaust gases in its genesis, can be associated with a threefold increase in the number of cars in Russia during the study period. The reasons for the decrease in the incidence of Hodgkin’s lymphoma require further study. To reduce the risk of hemoblastosis in children, it is advisable to introduce food products into the diet to stimulate autophagy, and transfer factor.

Epidemiological Study on the Early Detection of Mental Disorders in Young Children in Russia.

Assessing the risk of children developing mental, behavioral, and developmental disorders (MBDDs), including autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), as well as achieving early detection of such disorders, has become one of the most important undertakings for public mental health professionals worldwide. This study aims to evaluate the risk of developing MBDDs and the prevalence of MBDDs among young children (18-48 months old) in Russia. A two-level epidemiological screening approach was developed and adopted for the purposes of this study. At the first level, the parents of all children between 18 and 48 months old were questioned using Russian national validated Screening Checklist for Parents for Identification of the Risk of Mental, Behavioral, and Developmental Disorders in Early Childhood in nine regions of Russia (Volgograd, Kirov, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Tver, Chelyabinsk, Yaroslavl, and Stavropol). At the second level, children identified at the first level of screening as being at risk of developing MBDDs were assessed by a child psychiatrist on a voluntary basis and diagnosed according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision criteria. The present study revealed that the risk of developing MBDDs stands at 13.07% or 1,307 cases per 10,000 child population aged 18-48 months, whereas the prevalence of confirmed MBDDs is 1.51% or 151 cases per 10,000 among a Russian child population aged 18-48 months. Screening for the risk of developing MBDDs, including ASDs, in Russia among very young children is a promising area of preventive medicine. This initiative allows us to develop optimal algorithms for specialized care measures that could help prevent the development and aggravation of children mental health issues.

DC:0-5™ Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood: Promotion in Russia.

The purpose of the report is to inform the community of Russian pediatric mental health professionals about the international DC:0-5™ Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood: its purpose, target age, structure and content of diagnostic axes, as well as about the steps already taken domestically to promote the Classification in Russia. We show that the diagnostic Classification is the brainchild of leading foreign experts in the mental health of children and that it is based on an analysis and extrapolation of a large body of clinical data from around the world and covers a wide range of mental disorders experienced by children during their first five years of life. The interdisciplinary focus of DC:0-5™ is emphasized, as well as the presence in it of a crosswalk to the DSM-5 and ICD-10 systems, and the possibility to supplement these classifications taking into account the age specificity of disorders. It was made note that this diagnostic classification is almost unknown among Russian specialists. The report briefly touches on the results of the research activities of the interdisciplinary research group of the Scientific Center for Mental Health (Moscow) carried out in the period between 2002 and 2017 and aimed at analyzing the diagnostic approaches proposed in the Classification and testing them on Russian sample populations. The release of the Russian version of DC:0-5™ in 2022 by the non-profit organization Caritas Social School (St. Petersburg), with the official consent of the DC:0-5™ developer and in cooperation with the Faculty of Psychology of St. Petersburg State University, and an accompanying DC:0-5™ introduction course developed by this team for Russian child mental health professionals were announced.

РАСПРОСТРАНЕНИЕ ТИПОВ МОЧЕВЫХ КАМНЕЙ У ДЕТЕЙ И ПОДРОСТКОВ В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

The incidence of urolithiasis among children is rapidly increasing worldwide. Children with nephrolithiasis are at high risk of developing kidney stone recurrence. The prevalence of various types of urinary stones can vary significantly in different regions of the world. The knowledge of the composition of urinary stones is the most important stage in the examination of a patient with urolithiasis to assess changes in metabolism and prescribe effective metaphylactic treatment. The purpose of the study was to assess the prevalence of urinary stone types in Russia among children and adolescents under 25 years old. Research materials and methods: data on the composition of the urinary stones are presented by “INVITRO,” LLC in anonymized form for the period 2018 to 2021. All urinary stone analyzes were performed in different Russia regions using infrared spectroscopy and/or X-ray diffraction. Results: the prevalence of one-, two-, three- and more multicomponent urinary stones among the Russian children's population was assessed. The research studied the chemical composition of 538 urinary stones, of which single-component composition was found in only 28 cases (5.2%), two-component stones - in 298 studies (55.4%), and three- or more-component stones - in 212 (39.4 %) cases. Single-component calcium-containing stones were detected in 50% of girls and 80% of boys (p<0.001). They are predominantly represented by calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM) both among girls and boys. Attention is drawn to the high frequency of detection of infectious stones from struvite and ammonium urate in girls (100%). Among the two-component stones, the most common stones were those from COM + COD (n=187), which were detected in approximately equal proportions among boys and girls. Stones from COM + struvite and carbonate apatite + struvite were statistically significantly more common in girls (p<0.001). The most common multicomponent stone is a mixture of COM + COD and carbonate apatite (88.2%, n=187), almost evenly distributed among boys and girls. The second most common were stones from a mixture of COM + COD and struvite, statistically significantly more common in girls - 61.9% versus 38.1% in boys (p<0.001). Conclusion: the urinary stone composition analysis has a significant role in the assessment of metabolic disorders and determination of the mechanism of initiation of stone formation. In accordance with the clinical guidelines of the Russian Society of Urology for urolithiasis, approved by the Russian Healthcare Ministry, the study of urinary stones is mandatory. It is necessary to increase the volume of studies of urinary stone composition in children from all the Russia regions.

Autochthonous visceral leishmaniasis in the Russian Federation and the role of polymerase chain reaction as an alternative diagnostic method

The aim of the work is to summarize the available literature data on cases of visceral leishmaniasis in children registered in the Russian Federation, as well as to describe our own clinical observation of autochthonous visceral leishmaniasis in a 9-year-old child, in the diagnosis of which the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method was used.Materials and methods: a review of domestic and foreign literature over the past 20 years, including Internet resources, was carried out. We observed a 9-year-old child hospitalized in the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital. Leishmania DNA was determined in blood serum by PCR using the Amplisens – Leishmania-Fl reagent kit.Results. It was established that the infection of the patient observed by us occurred on the territory of the Russian Federation in the Crimea. The diagnosis of leishmaniasis was confirmed by morphological examination of the bone marrow and the detection of pathogen DNA in the blood serum by PCR.Conclusion. On the territory of the Russian Federation there are foci of autochthonous visceral leishmaniasis in the Crimea and the North Caucasus. Polymerase chain reaction is an alternative to bone marrow aspirate microscopy for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis.

Референциальные особенности текстов нарративного жанра при освоении первого и второго языка

The paper regards the process of the development of several features of the narrative speech genre in the discourse field of Russian culture while learning Russian as a second language. Referentiality in general linguistic sense is an area concerning naming of objects and characters by language means. In this paper we analyse the problems of the referential choice (what factors influence the speaker’s choice of a referential expression) and anaphora resolution (how the listener/reader binds an anaphoric pronoun to a coreferential noun phrase). The main goal of our paper is to study referential features of narratives produced by foreign students acquiring Russian as a second language (RSL), compared with adult Russian speakers and children acquiring Russian as a first language (RFL). Also, we describe referential mistakes made by RSL learners. The analysis of the data demonstrates that the main referential features (abilities to make the right referential choices, form anaphoric chains, etc.) are related to the age-specific cognitive development and do not depend on the native language. Both groups of adults show similar patterns in using nouns and pronouns for the introduction or reintroduction of a referent and for the topic maintenance, and build continuous anaphoric chains. Particular anaphoric mistakes of RSL learners are related to the level of their grammar skills and differ from the mistakes made by RFL children: while children’s mistakes base on the cognitive factor, RSL students’ mistakes are mostly grammatical.

The Twentieth Century through the History of the House at Sanatornaya Station in Vladivostok

Regional history and local history are of increasing interest to researchers due to the worldwide trend of increasing interest in the history of individual territories. The history of the mansion in the suburb of Vladivostok was not previously the subject of local historians. The article also raises the question concerning the importance of preserving the cultural and historical heritage. The author provides a literary and historical sketch about the history of the house, reflecting the history of the twentieth century with its wars and social cataclysms. The people, whose shelter was the mansion at Sanatornaya Station, were involved in many "Great Upheavals" that changed the world and Russia. They became symbols of cultural and political life in the last century. The house was built by the seaside oligarch Boris Briner and was used as a dacha. The mansion remembers the mischievous boy Yulia (Yula), grandson of the founder of the Briner dynasty who became a favorite of the postwar cinema audience, the world-famous actor Yul Brynner, the American Robin Hood from the famous western "The Magnificent Seven". In the 1930s the NKVD (Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del or People's Commisariat for Internal Affairs) turned the house into a special school for training world revolutionary fighters. In 1942, a young Korean guerrilla, Kim Song-joo, mastered the subtleties of sabotage and intelligence activities in this "training institution". In 1946 he became known to the world as Kim Il-sung, the leader of North Korea. In the 1990s the Oriental School successfully operated in the building of the Briner's former dacha, where Russian children studied the history of the foreign Far East, ancient and mysterious cultures.

Targeted NGS in Diagnostics of Genodermatosis Characterized by the Epidermolysis Bullosa Symptom Complex in 268 Russian Children.

The pathogenic variants of genes encoding proteins, participating in the formation and functioning of epidermis and dermo-epidermal junctions, create a large variety of clinical phenotypes from: small localized to severe generalized dermatitis, as well as early, or even, prenatal death due to extensive epidermis loss. The diagnostic panel in this study was developed for the purposes of identifying these pathogenic genetic variants in 268 Russian children, who possessed the epidermolysis bullosa symptom complex in a selection of 247 families. This panel included the targeted areas of 33 genes, which are genetic variants that can lead to the development of the phenotype mentioned above. The usage of next generation sequencing allowed the revelation of 192 various altered alleles (of which 109 alleles were novel, i.e., had not been described previously). In addition, it allowed the definition of the genetic variants that are both typical for most of the examined children and for the separate ethnic groups inhabiting modern Russia. We found that the most characteristic mutations for the Dargin and Chechen ethnic groups are the c.3577del deletion in the COL7A1 gene and the c.2488G>A missense mutation in the COL17A1 gene, respectively. In addition, the study of haplotypes of microsatellite markers, which we managed to conduct in the Dargin population, confirmed the presence of the founder effect.

The Current Situation and Management of Omicron with Children in Russia: A Review

Omicron is a newly discovered new variant virus, which spreads rapidly around Russia and the world and has a great impact. It is designated as a variant of concern (VOC) by the World Health Organization. Its characteristic of epidemiology, distribution, pathogenic and clinical diagnosis, treatment, and prevention is still being observed and summarized, and Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 infection are nonspecific, especially in preterm infants. Since there are few reports on the diagnosis and treatment of children with this infection. This article studies the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of omicron in Russian children, to improve the understanding and attention to the disease.

Phonological and orthographic parafoveal processing during silent reading in Russian children and adults

Studies on German and English have shown that children and adults can rely on phonological and orthographic information from the parafovea during reading, but this reliance differs between ages and languages. In the current study, we investigated the development of phonological and orthographic parafoveal processing during silent reading in Russian-speaking 8-year-old children, 10-year-old children, and adults using the gaze-contingent boundary paradigm. The participants read sentences with embedded nouns that were presented in original, pseudohomophone, control for pseudohomophone, transposed-letter, and control for transposed-letter conditions in the parafoveal area to assess phonological and orthographic preview benefit effects. The results revealed that all groups of participants relied only on orthographic but not phonological parafoveal information. These findings indicate that 8-year-old children already preprocess parafoveal information similarly to adults.

Media Security of Childrenʼs Reading: Project Activity in the Library Media Environment

In the conditions of rapidly developing information society in Russia, the problem of ensuring children’s media security is becoming more urgent. Low-quality children’s literature (media products) is sold, distributed on the Internet, is in public and family libraries. Russian children currently are not protected from the influence of content that can have a re-socializing effect and promote destructive behaviour models. When choosing an interesting and useful book, children may be influenced by suggestions that are destructive to the personality of young reader. The authors substantiate the expediency of introducing the concept of “media security of childrenʼs reading” into the theory and practice of reading activity, both in relation to books and media products in general. The authors propose to solve the problem of the potentially possible re-socializing impact of some works of modern childrenʼs literature (media products) through the introduction of socio-cultural projects within the framework of information and recommendation support. At the same time, such support should include the creation of recommendation information and library products posted on the official websites of childrenʼs libraries and their online communities in the media environment, as well as the organization of their provision to users.The paper presents the results of library and pedagogical experiment, during which the socio-cultural project was developed, realized and implemented in the Pushkin Central Municipal Library of Kirov and tested in the parent community of younger schoolchildren, aimed at including the media security model proposed by the authors in the information and recommendation support for childrenʼs reading. The results obtained of project implementation indicate the effectiveness of the developed socio-cultural project, which is able to prevent the negative impact of low-quality literature.