The Presidential Library shares its experience with library specialists and teachers from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra

From April 16 to April 19, 2024, the Presidential Library holds training for specialists of cultural and educational organizations of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra on additional professional educational programs for advanced training “Innovative approaches in library and information activities based on the resources of the Presidential Library that have information and educational potential" and "Increasing the efficiency of the educational process based on the methodology of using digital resources of the Presidential Library". 

Listeners of the programs learn about the national electronic depository of digital copies of the most important documents on the history, theory and practice of Russian statehood, the Russian language; structure of the Presidential Library's collections; opportunities to access institution resources through the portal of remote access centers; study the experience of using library resources in organizing and conducting cultural, educational, educational and other events, including in the activities of libraries. It should be noted that the Presidential Library's portal presents a major electronic project - The Presidential Library for Teachers: Teaching Using Primary Sources. Links (QR-codes) to information resources of the Presidential Library enter the unified textbooks on the history of Russia and general history for grades 10–11. Internet links in the new textbooks lead to the collections of the Presidential Library, which contain more than 15 thousand documents and materials on the history of Russia.

Training of specialists of cultural and educational organizations of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra in additional professional educational programs for advanced training is carried out in accordance with the plan of joint activities to use the information and educational potential of the Presidential Library in the region for 2023–2025. Director General of the Presidential Library Yuri Nosov and Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra Natalya Komarova signed the document in June 2023 as part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra became the first region with which such a plan was signed.

The Presidential Library and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra are united by many years of fruitful interaction. Thus, back in 2013, an agreement was concluded on cooperation between the Presidential Library and the government of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra. In 2014, an agreement was signed with the State Library of Yugra. A remote access center to the Presidential Library’s collections was opened in 2016 as well as the Regional Center of the Presidential Library. Today, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra contain more than 120 remote access centers to the resources of the Presidential Library.

For the Presidential Library, interaction with regions is one of the key areas of activity. The digital collections of the Presidential Library contain more than a million depository items. Among them are electronic copies of printed and archival materials, audio and video recordings, abstracts of dissertations and other documents that spotlight the centuries-old history of Russian statehood, the theory and practice of law, as well as the Russian language as the state language of Russia. Regional electronic collections, which present materials about the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, occupy a special place in the Presidential Library’s collections.

The Presidential Library’s portal features the collection Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra, which includes two collections: Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra: Pages of History and The City of Surgut. The first of them contains research, essays, official and archival documents, visual and audio materials covering the administrative, socio-economic and cultural situation of the territories (materials of the late 18th - early 21st centuries) that are part of modern Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra; The current Charter of the region is also available. The collection dedicated to Surgut includes research, archival documents, periodicals, cartographic and visual materials.