Moscow. Presentation of the restored Mariinsky Gospel, a unique book featuring the early Slavic Glagolitic script dating to the 10th and 11th centuries, at the Pashkov House.05.04.2021#6507904
Classic 19th century poet Vasily Zhukovsky's tale and ballad collection. State Pushkin Museum 10.02.2006#123090
The Historical Fate of Bolshevism book exhibition timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, which opened in Brussels, Belgium, and ended in London, England. State Social and Political Library.17.07.2003#6494916
A collection of pay phone cards issued by the Moscow Telephone Network (MGTS) between 1994 and 2003 and handed over to the Russian State Library.17.06.2003#6494400
The building of the Russian State Library in Moscow, with the monument to writer Fyodor Dostoevsky seen in the foreground.25.04.1998#8475626
The building of the Russian State Library in Moscow, with the monument to writer Fyodor Dostoevsky seen in the foreground.10.02.1998#8475627
The book depository of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory's Taneyev Research Music Library.15.01.1995#6745674
The Library of the International Institute of Management in Kiev, the Ukrainian SSR.01.10.1990#8338893
A monument to Russian writer Ivan Goncharov (Afanasy Vetrov, 1948) outside the Vladimir Lenin Ulyanovsk Regional Research Library.01.09.1990#6679944
Karamzin Public Library, a memorial exhibition recreating one of the first public libraries in the Russian provinces (late 19th century) at the Vladimir Lenin Ulyanovsk Regional Research Library.01.03.1990#6679945
Karamzin Public Library, a memorial exhibition recreating one of the first public libraries in the Russian provinces (late 19th century) at the Vladimir Lenin Ulyanovsk Regional Research Library.01.03.1990#6679942
The Saltykov-Shchedrin Leningrad State Public Library (today Russian National Library). Old Russian manuscripts of the XIV century. The Gospel of Nikola Stanevich. Fragment.01.02.1989#6747675
The Saltykov-Shchedrin Leningrad State Public Library, now the Russian National Library. Photo: Ancient 14th century Russian chronicles. Head-piece and beginning of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Elements.01.02.1989#6747668
The Armenian SSR. The Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, or the Matendaran in Yerevan. The building appeared in 1959 in line with a project by architect Mark Grigorian.16.04.1988#5734212
Members of the Children as Peacemakers international organization visit the USSR as part of their Peace Mission. Soviet boy Volodya Senkin at the Russian State Children's Library in Moscow.20.03.1987#8526098
Members of the Children as Peacemakers international organization visit the USSR as part of their Peace Mission. At the Russian State Children's Library in Moscow.20.03.1987#8526097
Members of the Children as Peacemakers international organization visit the USSR as part of their Peace Mission. At the Russian State Children's Library in Moscow.20.03.1987#8526096
Members of the Children as Peacemakers international organization visit the USSR as part of their Peace Mission. Left: Sergei Mikhalkov, Chair of the RSFSR Union of Writers, children's author, actor and public activist, meets with young peace advocates at the Russian State Children's Library in Moscow.20.03.1987#8526095
Members of the Children as Peacemakers international organization visit the USSR as part of their Peace Mission. At the Russian State Children's Library in Moscow.20.03.1987#8526094
Members of the Children as Peacemakers international organization visit the USSR as part of their Peace Mission. At the Russian State Children's Library in Moscow.20.03.1987#8526093
Members of the Children as Peacemakers international organization visit the USSR as part of their Peace Mission. At the Russian State Children's Library in Moscow.20.03.1987#8526092
Members of the Children as Peacemakers international organization visit the USSR as part of their Peace Mission. At the Russian State Children's Library in Moscow.20.03.1987#8526091
A libary of the Blagoyevo logging company, Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.22.11.1986#6557880
Yaroslavl. The Transfiguration of the Savior Monastery, now the Yaroslavl State Historical-Architectural and Artistic Museum-Reserve, was founded in the 12th century. This photo shows the Monastery's book depository.09.11.1986#6543674
The State Literary Museum of Byelorussian writer Yanka Kupala (Ivan Lutsevich) in Minsk opened in 1945. 1986.01.02.1986#779178
A soldier's letter, written on the cover of a book for children, at the History of Great Patriotic War Museum in Belarus.31.10.1985#5834250
The State Public Science and Technology Library at the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) in Novosibirsk that has a collection of unique old editions.01.10.1985#8367978
The State Public Science and Technology Library at the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) in Novosibirsk that has a collection of unique old editions. The 11th century Ostromir Gospels, letters and papers of Peter the Great in three volumes and several books of the History of Russian Art by Igor Grabar.01.10.1985#8367977
Lomonosov Moscow State University students in the reading room of the university's research library.10.09.1984#8178723
The building of the Union Library of Foreign Literature (now the Rudomino Russian State Library of Foreign Literature).01.03.1984#8771937
Polish students of Lomonosov Moscow State University in the university's reading room.15.01.1984#8303255
Cuban poet Raul Ferrer (front row, left) at an evening of Latin American poetry at the Krupskaya Moscow Regional State Scientific Library.15.12.1983#8296339
The All-Union State Library of Foreign Literature, now the Rudomino All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature.15.11.1983#6735923
The All-Union State Library of Foreign Literature, now the Rudomino All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature.15.11.1983#6735922
The restoration workshop of the Lenin State Library of the USSR, now the Russian State Library. Photo: A specialist restores an old manuscript.01.09.1983#6707875
The building of the Lenin State Library of the USSR, now the Russian State Library, on Moscow's Vozdvizhenka Street.01.09.1983#6707868
The restoration workshop of the Lenin State Library of the USSR, now the Russian State Library. Photo: A specialist works at the workshop.01.08.1983#6707865
State Public Scientific-Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Leonid Sitnikov, researcher, historian, supervisor of the Tikhomirov Fund (Dr Mikhail Tikhomirov's collection of ancient Russian manuscripts and early printed books) working in his office.01.10.1982#6691604
The library of the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School, now Bauman Moscow State Technical University.10.09.1981#8281267
A librarian of the Druzhba (Friendship) Collective Farm shows a book on the history of Abkhazia.01.07.1981#6703372
Moscow. Searching for a book in the files of the Republican Central Library for the Visually Impaired, now the Russian State Library for the Visually Impaired.01.06.1981#8285550
The main building of the Lenin State Library of the USSR (now the Russian State Library) on Vozdvizhenka Street in Moscow was built in 1928 -1958, designed by architects Gelfreikh, Shchuko and others.06.02.1981#8334096
The Uzbek SSR. Photo: A 19th century miniature Quran at the Library of Tashkent State University, now Mirzo Ulugbek National University of Uzbekistan.10.09.1979#5964158
The main building of the Lenin State Library of the USSR, now the Russian State Library, built by architects Vladimir Gelfreikh and Vladimir Shchuko.15.09.1978#8109515
Poet Alexander Pushkin's desk in the Alexander Pushkin Memorial Museum on the Moika River.10.07.1977#6519029
All-Union State Foreign Literature Library (now Russian National Foreign Literature Library).15.05.1977#6529708
The All-Union state library for foreign literature (in 1990 named after M. I. Rudomino) in Moscow. A book depository.27.08.1976#5786025
A reading room at the All-Union state library for foreign literature (in 1990 named after M. I. Rudomino) in Moscow.27.08.1976#5786024
The scientific hall at the All-Union state library for foreign literature (in 1990 named after M. I. Rudomino) in Moscow.27.08.1976#5786023
The All-Union state library for foreign literature (in 1990 named after M. I. Rudomino) in Moscow. Vasily Steblevsky, head of the book conservation and restoration department.27.08.1976#5786022
A reading room at the All-Union state library for foreign literature (in 1990 named after M. I. Rudomino) in Moscow.27.08.1976#5786020
The All-Union state library for foreign literature (in 1990 named after M. I. Rudomino) in Moscow. The Soviet periodicals hall.27.08.1976#5786019
An Indian parliamentary delegation visits Uzbekistan. Speaker of the People's Chamber of India Bali Ram Bhagat, third from right, and Chair of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan Mufti Ziyauddinhan ibn Eshon Babakhan (near him on the left) visiting the library of the Spiritual Administration in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.27.04.1976#6747772
