The reception of Marxist ideas and appropriation of the socialist realist canon by part of the left-wing Greek literary production of the 20th century led through translation to its Soviet reception. In most cases, however, it required further ideological adaptation through domesticating translation strategies and paratextual framing in order to establish conformity with current political narratives and cultural values of the target context. The contribution investigates the reception of modern Greek literature in the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet world literature and translation project. While providing a historical overview from the first few publications in the mid-1930s to publications on a regular basis from the late 1950s onwards, it focuses on the narrative and practical strategies of its introduction into the Soviet literary field. Drawing on Greek and Soviet archive material it examines the stages of mediation, translation, framing and publication as intermediate spaces of ideological interference as well as the translation networks and institutional-organizational actions involved. Finally, Zampouka elaborates on two exemplary cases of widely published Greek authors in the Soviet Union in order to demonstrate key aspects of Soviet canonization practices as well as authorial repositioning strategies during the thaw and the late Soviet period.