Russian State Library (Moscow)

Russia / Moscow / Moscow / ulitsa Vozdvizhenka, 3
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The Russian State Library founded on July 1, 1862 is the national library of Russia, located in Moscow. It is the largest in the country and one of the largest in the world. Please do not be confused with the Russian National Library, located in St Petersburg. This was also known as The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum, or The Rumiantsev Library. In front of the main entrance of the library is a monument to Fyodor Dostoevsky. In 1925 the complex was renamed the V.I.Lenin State Library of the USSR, and remained so until 1992 when it was given its present name. At present there are over 275 km of shelves, 42 million items, including over 17 million books and serial volumes, 13 million journals, 350 thousands music scores and sound records, 150,000 maps and others. There are items in 247 languages of the world, the foreign part being about 29 percent of the entire collection.

In this building

  1. Ground Alexander Garden subway station
  2. Колоннада в фасадной части Российской государственной библиотеки
  3. Музей книги РГБ
  4. Скульптурная группа на парапете главного здания
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_State_Library
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Coordinates:   55°45'5"N   37°36'31"E

Comments

  • Hello! All I know about Russia is very little, I just hope that you can reach out to the world just like other nations like US does. I'd like to watch your movies, know your film celebrities, your television shows, explore your cities etc., I'd like also to chat and exchange ideas with Russians (do they also welcome weird and sometimes stupid ideas?). How come there is no Russian Chatroom at Yahoo Messenger? I am logging my comment here at National Library though I dont read much.
  • OOppss! Its not National Library, you call it Russian State Library