List of libraries in Russia

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This is a partial list of libraries in Russia, including some of the larger and more unique libraries in the country. As of 2006, the national Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications estimated that Russia had around 3,000 university libraries, 5,700 state-funded research libraries, 48,300 public libraries, and 66,000 school libraries. ^[1]

Libraries by federal district

Central

• Art Library of A.P. Bogolyubov  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• Gorky Library, Tver  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Kursk Oblast Scientific Library  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• Kursk State University Library ^[2]
• Lipetsk Regional Universal Scientific Library  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature
• Nekrasov Central Library ^[2]
• Research Library of Moscow State University  [ Wikidata ] ^[3]
• Russian State Art Library ^[4]
• Russian State Children's Library
• Russian State Library
• Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology ^[3]
• Smolensk Regional Universal Scientific Library named after. A.T. Tvardovsky  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• State Public Historical Library of Russia ^[3]
• Turgenev Library and Reading Room  [ Wikidata ], Moscow ^[2]

Far Eastern

See also: List of libraries in Vladivostok (in Russian)

• Magadan Regional Scientific Library named after A.S. Pushkin  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]

North Caucasian

• National Scientific Library of the Republic of North Ossetia  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]

Northwestern

See also: List of libraries of St. Petersburg (in Russian)

• Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
• Kaliningrad Regional Children's Library. A.P. Gaidar  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• Kaliningrad Regional Science Library  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• National Library of Russia
• Novgorod Regional Universal Scientific Library  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• St. Petersburg Theatre Library ^[4]
• Vyborg Library (Russian: МАУК "Библиотека А. Аалто", lit. 'MAUK "A. Aalto Library"') ^{[5] [2]}

Siberian

• Altai Regional Universal Scientific Library named after. V.Ya. Shishkova  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• Central City Children's Library named after. A. P. Gaidar  [ Wikidata ], Zheleznogorsk ^[2]
• Kemerovo Regional Scientific Library  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• National Library of the Republic of Tuva named after. A. S. Pushkin  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• Omsk State Library
• Siberian Scientific Agricultural Library
• State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Southern

• Central Research Library of the Rostov Region ^[3]
• Chekhov Library
• Don State Public Library
• Volgograd Regional Universal Scientific Library named after. M. Gorky  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]

Ural

• Kurgan Regional Universal Scientific Library named after. A.K. Yugova  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Library named after V. G. Belinsky  [ Wikidata ]

Volga

See also: List of libraries in Samara (in Russian)

• National Library of Mordovia  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan ^[2]
• Perm Regional Children's Library named after. L. I. Kuzmina  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• Samara Regional Children's Library  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• Samara Regional Universal Scientific Library  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]
• Samara Regional Youth Library  [ Wikidata ] ^[2]

Digital libraries

• CyberLeninka
• Lib.ru
• National Electronic Library

Defunct

• Library of Ukrainian Literature  [ Wikidata ], Moscow
• Lost Library of Ivan the Terrible

See also

• List of the largest libraries in Russia (in Russian)
• List of archives in Russia
• People's House#Russian Empire
• List of libraries in Ukraine (in Ukrainian)

References

1. "Country reports: Russia" (PDF), Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression World report, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 2007
2. "Члены Российской библиотечной ассоциации" [Members of the Russian Library Association], rba.ru (in Russian), Российской библиотечной ассоциации, archived from the original on 2024-01-24
3. Evgeny Kuzmin (1994), "Russian Libraries in the Context of Social, Economic and Political Reforms", 60th IFLA General Conference: Proceedings, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
4. Ada Kolganova; Anastasia Guy (2009), "Heritage received and multiplied: Russian art libraries as collectors and translators" (PDF), 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
5. "Библиотека Алвара Аалто: Общая информация" [Alvar Aalto Library: General Information], vbgcity.ru (in Russian), archived from the original on 2025-02-23 – via Wayback Machine

Further reading

in English

• Mrs. L. Haffkin Hamburger (1926). "Libraries in the Soviet Union". Bulletin of the American Library Association. 20 (10) – via HathiTrust.
• "Libraries: Russia", Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 14 (14th ed.), London, 1929, p. 20 – via HathiTrust
• Herbert Goldhor, ed. (1938), Articles in American periodicals on library work in Soviet Russia, 1918-1937, New York: School of Library Service, Columbia University – via HathiTrust
• A. Robert Rogers (1973). "Censorship and Libraries in the Soviet Union". Journal of Library History, Philosophy, and Comparative Librarianship. 8 (1). JSTOR   25540391.
• Mary Stuart (July 1998). "The Ennobling Illusion: The Public Library Movement in Late Imperial Russia". Slavonic and East European Review. 76. JSTOR   4212684.
• Boris F. Volodin (October 2000), "History of Librarianship, Library History, or Information History: A View from Russia", Library Quarterly, 70, JSTOR   4309462
• Susan J. Smith-Peter (July 2005). "Provincial Public Libraries and the Law in Nicholas I's Russia". Library History. 21. doi:10.1179/002423005x44943.
• Heesop Kim; Nadezhda Maltceva (December 2022). "Digitization of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Russia". Information Technology and Libraries. doi:10.6017/ital.v41i4.13783.

in Russian

• G. N. Gennadi (1864), Ukazatel bibliotek v Rossii [Directory of libraries in Russia] (in Russian), St Petersburg – via HathiTrust

External links

• "Library Map of the World: Russian Federation", ifla.org, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
• University of California Los Angeles Library, "Digital Resources for Eastern Europe, Russian Federation and Ukraine: Libraries", Research Guides, US