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Presidential Library invite users to watch films and video lectures
The Presidential Library portal's TV channel section broadcasts films and video lectures prepared by the Presidential Library, as well as videos from leading Russian film and television studios, around the clock. This means that users from any region of Russia, from Kaliningrad to the Far East, as well as from any country, can conveniently watch them. We invite you to familiarize yourself with the most notable film screenings dedicated to memorable and significant dates in the second half of October.
Great Russia project marks anniversary of Ivan Michurin
October 15 (27 according to the new calendar) 2025 marks the 170th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, a renowned biologist and naturalist, and the founder of scientific fruit crop breeding in Russia.
Exhibition of works by famous artists "Planeta Rus" opened in Reserve Center of Presidential Library
On October 13, 2025, the Reserve Center of the Presidential Library in Moscow (4 Slavyanskaya Square, Building 1) hosted the grand opening of the exhibition project "Planet Rus" and the presentation of the art album of the same name. The event was timed to coincide with National Unity Day.
Video lecture in Presidential Library told about first autocrat of Vladimir Rus, Andrei Bogolyubsky
On October 13, 2025, the third lecture from Academician Oleg Germanovich Ulyanov's new author's cycle "From Rome to the Third Rome: the Origin and Flourishing of Russian Statehood" took place at the Presidential Library as part of the video lecture "Knowledge of Russia". The topic of the lecture is "The first autocrat of Vladimir Rus, Andrei Bogolyubsky, between Rome and Constantinople."
Ostromirov Gospel: unique monument of Slavic culture on portal of Presidential Library
The Ostromir Gospel is the oldest surviving Old Russian manuscript book, and it holds a special place in the history of Slavic writing and culture. A digital copy of the original manuscript, the Ostromir Gospel (1056–1057), which is kept in the Russian National Library, is available on the Presidential Library's portal.
Presidential Library invites schoolchildren and students to participate in academic competition in history, social studies and Russian language
From September 25, 2025, to March 26, 2026, the Presidential Library and the National Research University Higher School of Economics are holding an academic competition entitled "Russia in the Electronic World" in the subjects of history, social studies, and Russian language. High school and college students enrolled in secondary vocational education institutions in arts programs are invited to participate.
Presidential Library took part in National Forum of History Teachers
On October 10–11, 2025, Tyumen hosted the National Forum of History Teachers, which discussed key areas of development in history education, as well as the state of teaching materials and methods for teaching history subjects.
Presidential Library's new electronic collection dedicated to 155th anniversary of Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
155 years ago, on October 22 (October 10 according to the old calendar) 1870, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin was born – an outstanding writer, poet, and translator, the first Russian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933). His work was "removed" from literary circulation for many years due to his emigration – in the Soviet Union, the first collection of I. A. Bunin's works was published only in 1956.
Round table dedicated to Russian language as basis of interlibrary cooperation between CIS member states
On October 9, 2025, a round table discussion entitled "The Russian Language as the Basis for Interlibrary Cooperation among CIS Member States" was held at the Tauride Palace.
Presidential Library – at International Scientific and Practical Conference in Vladikavkaz
On October 9, 2025, the Presidential Library took part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference "The Great Patriotic War and Russian Society" (marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War). The event was held at the Kosta Khetagurov North Ossetian State University with the support of the History of the Fatherland Foundation and the Russian Historical Society.