National Library of the Republic of Buryatia

The first city public library in Verkhneudinsk ( Ulan-Ude ) was founded on November 1, 1881 at the initiative of N. S. Nelyubov , the supervisor of the Verkhneudinsky district school .

In the early years, the library was located in the county school building. The library worked from 9 to 12 hours and from 17 to 20 hours on weekdays, and from 11 to 14 hours on holidays. In 1885, the library had 78 subscribers ^[1] .

The library was created at the expense of money donations from the townspeople, and the basis of its book collections was 732 volumes of books donated by the merchant D. A. Menshikov and the gift of the heirs of the merchant A. P. Losev.

Since 1885, the Verkhneudinsk City Duma began to release 500 rubles for the maintenance and replenishment of the library instead of previously sold 250 rubles a year ^[2] . The book stock gradually grew, newspapers and magazines were written out. The library has become the center of the cultural life of the city.

In 1923 , after the formation of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , the library received the status of the Central Regional Collector Library (CSCC).

Since October 1938, the regional library becomes the Republican Public Library, it is named after Maxim Gorky.

Since 1965, after the adoption of the Model Charter, the library became known as the Republican Scientific Library. M. Gorky.

In 1991 , in the year of the 110th anniversary of its foundation, the Library was given the status of the National Library of the Republic of Buryatia by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Republic.

In 2012, the first phase of the library was reconstructed. The conference rooms were updated, the storage facility is equipped with modern mobile racks.

Further reconstruction will be continued. ^[3]

The fund of books, magazines, newspapers and other documents is more than 1.5 million documents, including 15,000 copies. rare and valuable books. The collection of the fund contains the rarest editions of the 17th-18th centuries.

The library's activity is aimed at fulfilling the main task - collecting and storing a full repertoire of local history documents, documents in the Buryat language , creating a database of local history topics.

Buryatia: calendar of significant and memorable dates .

The calendar of significant and memorable dates in Buryatia reflects important events from the history of the republic, its political, economic and cultural life, as well as facts from the life and work of prominent people whose names are associated with the history of the region. It has been published by the National Library of the Republic of Buryatia since 1961. Since 2016, it has been compiled jointly by the National Library and the State Archive of the Republic of Belarus.

Buryatika Digital Library

Baikal-Lake Information Portal

It was created in 2005 by the National Library of the Republic of Buryatia as part of a grant project with the UNESCO Moscow Office.

The National Library of the Republic of Belarus has a Sea of ​​Issues service. Everyone who uses the service by clicking on the “Ask a Librarian” button on the website of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus ( www.nbrb.ru ) will be able to tell library specialists where and how to search for literature. Everything works very simply: the user fills out a web form and waits for a response to his e-mail. Details, rules - on the service page .

Here you can get the service “ Electronic document delivery ”, which provides the ability to receive copies of articles from magazines, newspapers, collections, fragments of books stored in the National Library of the Republic of Belarus and the collections of other libraries (do not forget about copyright!).

Paying for services is as simple as possible - through the ROBOKASSA payment system (using bank cards and mobile operators, through Internet banking and ATMs of leading Russian banks, as well as instant payment terminals, iPhone applications and much more).

• Bazarova, Darima Vasilievna - Head of the Center for National and Local History Documents.

• Books catalog of Verkhneudinsky city public library by January 1, 1888 - Irkutsk: Printing house of the Headquarters of the Irkutsk military district, 1888.
• Catalog of Verkhneudinsky city public library. - Verkhneudinsk: Type. A.K. Kobylkina, 1911.
• Republican Scientific Library named after M. Gorky - 100 years. - Ulan-Ude: Buryat. Prince Publishing House, 1983.
• National Library of the Republic of Buryatia: the test of time: cb. Art. / M-in the culture and mass communications of the Republic of Belarus, Nat. the Republic of Belarus; comp. M.P. Osokina. - Ulan-Ude: Publishing House of the Republican Printing House OJSC, 2006. - 200 pp., Ill.

• Library official website
• Digital library "Buryatika"
• Information portal "Baikal-Lake"