Mari ASSR. The Regional Public Library (now Chavain National Library) in Yoshkar-Ola.28.04.1978#8912157
An exhibition of books on Japanese sculpture and architecture. The All-Union State Library of Foreign Literature.01.04.1977#643802
Olga Smirnova, student at a musical college, in the reading room of the Krupskaya Research Library.01.03.1977#643811
Ivanovo State University (IvSU). Readers' conferences are regularly held in the university library.25.07.1975#8971462
The reading room of the National Library of the Lithuanian SSR (currently Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania).15.04.1975#6222265
The Lenin State Library in the Belarusian SSR, now the National Library of Belarus.10.08.1974#5951151
Moldavian SSR. Pravda collective farm in the Gagauz village of Beshalma. Schoolchildren in the reading room of the collective farm library.01.09.1973#5976811
Library of sovkhoz "Rossiya" (the village of Proletarsky) of Zemetchinsky District, the Penza Region. Reading room.24.08.1973#5716439
A care home for senior citizens and people with disabilities in Moscow. The library at the care home boasts a collection of 5,700 books.25.09.1972#6351339
Students in their family dormitory room The at the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University.16.07.1972#3122381
The library at the Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (now the Herzen State Pedagogical University).13.05.1972#5575625
Larisa Zelenina, a second-year student of the Faculty of Biology and Soil Studies at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, in the library's reading room.17.04.1971#5850384
The family of Vladimir Lenin's nephew Viktor Dmitriyevich Ulyanov. Viktor Ulyanov's daughter Maria with her husband Igor Litvinov.14.07.1970#5946252
The reading room of Lenin Children's Regional Library, now Aksakov Regional Library for Children and Youth, in Ulyanovsk.11.04.1970#6305228
Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University (currently Peoples' Friendship University of Russia). Students prepare for winter term exams at the university's library.03.01.1970#6300113
Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg. The Belinsky Sverdlovsk Public Library, now the Belinsky Sverdlovsk Regional Multi-Role Scientific Library.02.10.1969#6134515
The reading room of the Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, built in Yerevan in 1959.01.07.1969#718268
Leningrad. The reading-room of the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library (currently the Russian National Library).01.12.1968#6091113
The building of the All-Union Foreign Literature Library, now the Rudomino All-Russian Foreign Literature Library.22.07.1968#6083189
Harmonious physical and mental development is the main principle of the upbringing of children in the Nikitin family. Children read a book.01.04.1968#5871282
Moscow, the Soviet Union. Photo: Residents of a retirement home in the library's reading room.25.07.1966#6102956
Students at the library reading room at Moscow Power Engineering Institute (today's National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute").22.03.1966#5641892
Lenin Room of the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library (now National Library of Russia) in Leningrad.26.07.1965#5959538
The Uzbek SSR. Photo: Nadirkhon Allauddin, the Curator of the Library of the Muslim Spiritual Board for Central Asia and Kazakhstan.15.04.1965#5856640
Gnessin Music Pedagogical Institute (today's Gnessin Russian Academy of Music). The music library's reading room.17.03.1962#5678925
Moscow family on a day off. Father reading short stories by Anton Chekhov to his children before the evening tea.05.08.1953#5604985
Moscow family on a day off. Father reading short stories by Anton Chekhov to his children before the evening tea.05.08.1953#5604984
A Soviet-era campaign to eliminate all-out illiteracy in the countryside throughout the 1930s. Rural adults undergo a literacy course. The peasants realized that a new life was underway, and it was no longer possible to do without literacy.19.07.1931#8928384
The 1920s. The reading room at the Library of the New Philology Institute, now the Rudomino All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature. Photo courtesy of the album Moscow and Muscovites, property of the State History Museum.01.06.1922#6681607
