The Presidential Library was granted the “Russian Military Sailors at the Pacific Ocean” by I. A. Smirnov

29 March 2012, the Presidential Library was granted the “Russian Military Sailors at the Pacific Ocean” by I. A. Smirnov.

The book’s author, Igor Alexandrovich Smirnov, the Great Patriotic War veteran, captain first rank, Doctor of Technics, has collected an unique material on the formation of the Russian Navy at the Pacific Ocean. The book presents chronologically the history of the fleet from the creation of the Okhotsk port in 1731 to the collapse of the Siberian flotilla in 1922. The book sets forth particular persons, first of all the commanders of formations and ships.

The book was granted to the library by the widow of Igor Smirnov, Eleonora Izmailovna Malteyeva, who contributed to the edition and issue of the manuscript.

The guest was offered a tour during which she visited the exhibition hall and the electronic reading room of the Presidential Library and made special mention of the importance of the efforts to preserve and popularize historical knowledge.

According to the tradition, at the end of the visit the guest was given a reader’s card of the Presidential Library.