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Rare Books

The library's stock of rare books contains more than 70 000 volumes. An appreciable portion of those are incunabula (books printed before 1501): about 7 000 works. The library has no rival for its stock of early Russian printed books and Slavonic incunabula, it also holds a large amount of West European publications from the 16th and 17th century. The most remarkable among collections are Aldine editions of the 15th - 16th centuries and Elseviers produced by the celebrated 17th/century Dutch family firm. The Rare Books Department can boast Voltaire's Library, the unique monument of 18th century culture, that is one of some well surviving private libraries of that time.
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Maps

The National Library's collection of printed maps and atlases is the second largest in the country, comprising more than 180,000 items printed in Russia and abroad from the sixteenth century to the present. It incudes maps, atlases, reproductions of manuscripts, globes, electronic cartographic publications.
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Graphic Materials

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Photographs

A unique photographic collection of the Prints Department is a true chronicle of the life of Russia since the second half of the 19th . It includes portraits from the 1850s, photographic views of cities and other places since the 1850s, photos on various subjects from the 1860s, photographic reproductions of works of art.
- Leningrad during World War II
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Foreign Books
Russian Periodicals
Literature of Asian and African Countries
Literature of the Peoples the Russian Federation
"Plekhanov House".
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Ostromir Gospel

Project Participants

Coordination of works, scientific description of the manuscript, compilation of reference aids, analytical description of the contents:

C. Krushelnitskaya, Head of the Old Russian Manuscripts Group of the Manuscrips Department

Administration of the IRS "Depositary", data structuralization, entering data and digital copies into the database, correction of data:

E. Filonov, Researcher of the Old Russian Manuscripts Group of the Manuscrips Department

Page scanning:

P. Medvedev, Senior Librarian of the Manuscrips Department
A. Timofeev, Senior Technologist of the Copy Service Department

Digital image processing, text entering:

E. Kalinina, Librarian of the Old Russian Manuscripts Group of the Manuscrips Department

Transliteration of the manuscript:

V. Butskikh, culturologist

Creation of the web-based resource

Organizational support:

A. Varguzov, Head of the Internet Technology Group of the Electronic Communications Department

Programmer, Developer of the IRS "Depositary":

L. Emelyanova, Leading Specialist of the Integrated Library Systems Department

Webmaster:

V. Chernousova, Leading Programmer of the Electronic Communications Department

Webdesigner:

I. Podoprigora, Leading Programmer of the Electronic Communications Department

English version:

I. Rozhkova, Programmer of the Electronic Communications Department