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Russian State Library
Sign in to saveAlso known as State Russian Library, Lenin Library, Lenin State Library, Moscow library, V. I. Lenin State Library of the USSR, The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum, The Rumiantsev Library, rsl.ru
national public library in Moscow, Russia
The Russian State Library is the national public library located in Moscow and serves as Russia's primary repository for books, documents, and cultural materials. It matters because it preserves and provides access to Russia's literary and historical heritage, making important works available to researchers and the general public.
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Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Archive
- Founded
- 1862
- Location
- Moscow, Russia
- Also known as
- RSL, The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum, The Rumiantsev Library, V. I. Lenin State Library of the USSR
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.462756.4 · ISNI 0000 0004 0636 9992
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Encyclopedic overview
The Russian State Library (Russian: Российская государственная библиотека, romanized: Rossiyskaya gosudarstvennaya biblioteka) is one of the three national libraries of Russia, located in Moscow. It is the largest library in the country, second largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Its holdings crossed over 47 million units in 2017. It is a federal library overseen by the Ministry of Culture, including being under its fiscal jurisdiction.
Its foundation lay in the opening of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumyantsev Museum in Moscow in 1862. This museum evolved from a number of collections, most notably Count Nikolay Rumyantsev's library and historical collection. It was renamed after Lenin in 1924, popularly known as the Lenin Library or Leninka, and its current name was adopted in 1992.
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