Sverdlovsk Regional Scientific Library named after V. G. Belinsky

The library was founded as the Yekaterinburg Public Public Library in 1899 .

Library Foundation

Project for Establishing a Public Library in Yekaterinburg

On January 6 (19), 1896, in Yekaterinburg , the industrial and commercial county town of the Perm province , the Society of Fine Arts Lovers (EOLI) was created, one of the tasks of which was the creation of a public public library ^[1] . At a meeting of the company on October 30 (November 12), 1897, a special commission was elected (consisting of 5 people: Vladimir Narkisovich Mamin , Alexandra Alexandrovna and Mikhail Ivanovich Dogadov, Elizaveta Nikolaevna Zaitseva and Alexei Nikiforovich Batmanov ) to develop a draft charter and determine the financial conditions of the library . An appeal was prepared to the Yekaterinburg City Council , Zemstvo institutions and the Ural Medical Society (UMO) with a request to financially help in the organization. At the same time, collection of donations began (on 14 subscription sheets, which were compiled in the notary office of A. N. Batmanov). The first book contribution (about 2 thousand volumes of her private library worth 1,486 rubles) was made by E. M. Kremlyova , who later became the director of the library ^[1] .

The next step was the creation of a special society for the establishment of the library (which was decided on January 8 (21), 1898 at a general meeting of the Society of Fine Arts Lovers ). Under the leadership of Andrey Ivanovich Kozhevnikov, manager of the Yekaterinburg office of the State Bank, on February 2 (15) of the same year, interested Yekaterinburg residents discussed the draft charter of the V. G. Belinsky Yekaterinburg Public Library at the State Bank in Yekaterinburg. Over the next few days, the project was signed by 54 Uralians who became the founders of the library ^[1] .

On February 28 (March 13), the signed charter of the library was sent to the Perm Governor for transmission for approval by the Minister of the Interior . However, the ministry rejected the charter, demanding a number of changes, including restrictions on the activities of the reading room (§ 5 of the Charter). The founders made most of the changes, included the directors of the classical gymnasium and two Yekaterinburg schools on the board, but left unchanged § 5. The new charter was approved, but § 5 was deleted ^[1] . And to the 50th anniversary of the death of V. G. Belinsky did not have time to open the library. Meanwhile, organizational work was underway to raise money for the library: a subscription was held, several charity performances were held, and some residents of Yekaterinburg donated books and magazines to the fund.

Library Founders

Among the 54 founders of the library you can find representatives of various classes of pre-revolutionary Russia. So, the first signatory was Bishop Christopher of Yekaterinburg and Irbit. Also among the signatories: EOLI chairman M. I. Dogadov , chairman of the Yekaterinburg district court Baron Medem , manager of the Yekaterinburg office of the State Bank A. I. Kozhevnikov , home teachers E. Kremlyova and E. Zaitseva , notary A. N. Batmanov , editor of the newspaper “Ural "Peter Pevin, director of the Siberian Commercial Bank I. Makletsky nobles Drozzhilov Alex, Maria M. Marczewska, Ivan Alfonsovich Poklevsky-Kozell and Vladimir Ponomarev, director of a secondary school N. Steshin, chairman of the Yekaterinburg Zemsky th council N. Klepin, brother of the writer DN Mamin-Sibiryak Vladimir Mamin, managing banking offices T-va Pechyonkin & ^Co in Yekaterinburg N. Batmanov, Yekaterinburg Mayor Ivan Burdakov, director of the gymnasium M. Fedorov, Yekaterinburg merchants A Simonov and Ilya Ivanovich Simanov , mining engineer A. Ivanov , Yekaterinburg police chief M. Korneychik-Sevastyanov , chairman of the UMO in Yekaterinburg N. Russky , Krasnoufimsk tradesman Ivan Sergeevich Sigov , superintendent of theological school E. Usoltsev , manager of the Ural horn Secondary school N. Kitaev and others ^[2] .

Beginning of the work of the library board

The first board of the library was elected at the meeting of the founders on March 7 (20), 1899 . The board consisted of 9 members (A. I. Kozhevnikov, N. A. Klepinin, A. N. Batmanov, I. M. Berenov, G. G. Kazantsev, E. M. Kremlyova, P. I. Pevin, V. . N. Mamin and A. A. Dogadova). There were also 6 candidates on the board (I. I. Simanov, N. A. Russkikh, M. I. Dogadov, E. A. Olesov, A. N. Schipanov and N. N. Menshikov) and 3 permanent members (male director gymnasium M. P. Fedorov, director of a real school A. A. Stepanov, supervisor of a religious school E. A. Usoltsev) ^[1] . Later, the election of the board lasted until June 27, 1918 , when the Yekaterinburg Commissariat of Public Education subjugated the library and dissolved the board ^[1] .

The first period of activity

The library fund exceeds 2 million units. There is a stock of microfiches, audio and video cassettes, CD-ROMs and DVDs. Every year the library fund is replenished by 25 thousand copies, including more than 1.5 thousand names of magazines and newspapers.
A unique collection of manuscript and early printed books in the rare books department. The depository stores posters and postcards. The library has the largest collection of foreign language publications in the Urals.

According to the library administration, over 250 thousand people visit the library annually.

The library is a participant in Russian corporate projects LIBNET and MARS.

• The first building is a two-story stone house on Kolobovskaya Street (now Tolmachev Street), which belonged to Zhukov (demolished).
• The building on the present Karl Liebknecht Street, specially built for the library - today it houses the Sverdlovsk Regional Children and Youth Library.
• (Since 1960 ) - a building specially built for the library on 15 Belinsky Street.
• “New Belinka” (since 2003 ) - an extension to the main building of the library.

• Since 1899 - Sofya Alexandrovna Dyakonova (graduated from Bestuzhev Higher Women's Courses ). Her assistant is K.A. Arsenyeva.
• Elizaveta Mikhailovna Kremleva
• Elizaveta Makarovna Grigoryeva
• Era Vasilievna Ryazanova
• Valentina Ilyinichna Ryabukhina
• Nadezhda Evgenievna Tsypina
• Dmitry Pavlovich Korobeinikov
• Olga Dmitrievna Oparina - present vr.

• "Belinka": Essays on History (On the 100th anniversary of the Sverdlovsk Region. Universal Scientific Scientific Library named after V. G. Belinsky) / Ed. N. E. Tsypina. - Yekaterinburg: Bank of Cultural Information , 1999 . - 78 p. - ISBN 5-7851-0191-2 .
• Magarlamov V. History of discovery (Towards the centenary of the library named after V. G. Belinsky in 1999 ) // Golden Gate. - 1998 . - No. 5. February . - S. 3 email. option .
• Ryabukhina V. I. How “Belinka” almost became “Romanovka”, or The financial foundations of relations between the pre-revolutionary authorities of Yekaterinburg and the city public library named after V. G. Belinsky // Libraries of the Urals . XVIII — XX centuries Vol. 2. - Yekaterinburg, 2004 .

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