Year of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia

2022 has been declared the Year of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia. The main goals of the series of events implemented throughout the year all over the country include the popularization of folk art, the preservation of cultural traditions, monuments of history and culture, the support of ethnocultural diversity and cultural uniqueness of the peoples of the Russian Federation, the strengthening of their spiritual unity.

The Presidential Library’s collection, marking this event, contains official documents, research studies, periodicals, archival cases, visual and video materials that spotlight the richness of the tangible and intangible culture of the peoples of Russia.

The collection features digital copies of over 700 documents, preserved in the collections of the Russian State Library, State Public Historical Library, Presidential Library, Russian State Historical Archive, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Russian Geographical Society, Library of Congress, Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Science’s Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Manuscripts Department of the State Russian Museum,  Russian Institute of Art History, Kremlin Research Library, Rostov Kremlin State Museum-Reserve, Penza State Local History Museum, Tobolsk Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve, Altai Regional Universal Research Library, Arkhangelsk Regional Research Library, Belgorod State Universal Research Library, Vladimir Regional Universal Research Library, Kurgan Regional Universal Research Library, Moscow Regional State Research Library, Novosibirsk State Regional Research Library, Penza Regional Library, Ryazan Regional Universal Research Library, Samara Regional Universal Research Library, Tambov Regional Universal Research Library, Tula Regional Universal Research Library, Tyumen Regional Research Library, National Library of Republic of Buryatia, National Library of Republic of Karelia, National Library of Chuvash Republic, St. Petersburg State University, Ural Federal University, Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, St. Petersburg College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Cultural and Historical Foundation ‘Connection of Times’, Fabergé Museum, Children’s Postcard Museum, OJSC Petrocentre, St. Petersburg Creative Union ‘Documentary Video’, and in private collections, as well as materials of the official website of the President of Russia.