Library named after L.Tolstoy (Novosibirsk)

Pre-Revolutionary Period

In the opinion of researchers I. F. Tsylakov and K. A. Nechaev, part of the book fund of the institution formed books from a library founded by engineer Grigori Budagov in 1894 at the base of a school for children of railway bridge builders.

The Zakamensk Library in Novonikolayevsk Workers' District began to develop the Society for Public Education, established in 1909. In 1910, with the help of the editorial office of the newspaper Obskaya Zhizn, the Company managed to form a book fund of 200 copies of literature, and, moreover, it managed to raise funds for the needs of the library. In the Zakamensky district, the Society rented for it the house of the merchant G. D. Mashtakova, later the Society arranged Sunday folk readings here.

The opening of the institution took place in September 1910 on Beregovaya Street near the Kamenka River, it was free. In the years 1910-1913, the book fund was about 1000 copies. In 1913, the library issued 9.4 thousand copies of literature, for three years the number of readers increased from 300 to 600 people.

After the death of Leo Tolstoy in 1910, the Care Society at its own emergency meeting decided to give the institution the name of a great writer and collect all his writings in the Zakamensk Library.

In 1913, the library fund of the Society of Clerks was transferred to the library of L. Tolstoy, which ceased to exist. After that, the library became the largest in the pre-revolutionary Novonikolayevsk. The Fund for the Society of Clerks remained in the central part of the city and formed the basis for the “fundamental” library of the Care Society.

The library was called the “hotbed” of revolutionary ideas; in 1914, during a check in the book fund, the works of Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Alexander Herzen , Vladimir Lenin (V. Ilyin) were discovered. The leaders and participants of the Sunday readings were A. I. Petukhov , V. M. Bakhmetiev , S. M. Safonova.

In 1915, the Society for the Care of Public Education transports the Leo Tolstoy Library to the city center and the Zakamensk Library, which is why readers of the working suburb lost the opportunity to use books. By this time, the library’s book collection already contained 5,000 copies of literature.

Post-Revolutionary Period

After the February Revolution, a member of the Society for Care of Teacher A.V. Vedenyapin decided to revive the library on the territory of the working districts. In exchange for flour, he acquired a part of the library fund and located it in a building on Budagovsky Street , after which he became the first librarian of the restored library named after Leo Tolstoy.

In 1917 the Cultural and Educational Commission of the Novonikolayevsky Committee of the Social-Democrats. Bolsheviks arranged in the library interviews and lectures.

During the Civil War, the library was located in the building of the secretary of the City Council Krivoshchekov and was almost destroyed by the White Guards, who threw the library books on the street and occupied the premises under the military post.

In early 1920, after the arrival of the Red Army, the library was restored, it was named after the 2nd Soviet Library. Tolstoy.

In the 1920s, the institution was headed by I. K. Vorobiev (later a well-known figure in the Siberian book publishing and Soviet enlightenment), S. V. Sokolovskaya, and O. N. Kameneva. In this decade, the library conducted a great cultural activity, many of the enterprises of the city opened a fleet of post centers.

In 1920-1930, the library named after Leo Tolstoy changed its address 15 times.

After the war, the institution significantly increased book collections, the library conducted systematic work with young people, under its patronage were two hostels of the Oktyabrsky district, in which it held reading conferences, lectures, and reading fiction.

In 1960-1970, the library was managed by KP Kravchenko.

In 1960, on its fiftieth anniversary, the library received a photo of Leo Tolstoy with a writer's autograph as a gift from the reader.

In 1961, the Leo Tolstoy Library received a room on Voskhod Street, 26.

In 2003, the library was visited by 8,000 readers, the book collection totaled 93,000 copies of literature. The leader of the library in 2003 was N. N. Novikova.

The library named after L. N. Tolstoy manages the centralized library system of the Oktyabrsky district, which consists of 8 libraries. It is a methodical, informational and leisure district center. In the library, a center for the development of children's creativity “Rostok” was created to familiarize children and adolescents with books ^[1] .