With this review, the author supplements the well-known assessments of literary critics of the two countries, referring to a number of problems that affect the literary and social life of Vietnam as a whole, Russian-Vietnamese cooperation in the fields of translation, publication and distribution of fiction. Some economic and statistical information is presented, contributing to a more objective understanding of the development trends of real cooperation, as well as some empirical observations of social changes taking place in Vietnam. Some solutions are proposed that correspond to the course of the Vietnamese leadership in this area.