The Boris Yeltsin Presidential library to open in Mordovia

One of the branches of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library will open in Mordovia. This was announced at the meeting of the Head of the Mordovia Republic Nikolay Merkushkin with Sergei Makeev, Deputy Director of the Presidential library.  

The funds of the library’s electronic Reading Rooms contain more than 42 thousand of storage units. Among them are electronic copies of old manuscripts, maps, photo albums, newspapers, monographs and scientific works. However these figures are growing each and every day. Today all the Internet users have a chance to visit the website and page through many electronic books.

The participants of the meeting had a special focus on specific details of the agreement on collaboration. The Republic of Mordovia is going to provide a building for the library, which in its turn will become its share of the project’s co-financing. The Presidential library will contribute modern equipments, including a network of computers, service equipment, and software.

The library’s branch, to be Federal budget-funded, will provide an access to the unique repository of knowledge to all the people of the Republic, first and foremost, to students. What is more, it will digitize historical documents, manuscripts, books, including editions dedicated to the cultural heritage of Finno-Ugric peoples.

The branch of the Presidential library in Mordovia is going to open by the beginning of 2012, the anniversary year, which according to the decree of the President of the Russian Federation will mark the 1000th anniversary of Mordvins’ and  peoples of Russia’s unification.