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Presidential Library paid working visit to cultural institutions of Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol
From 4 to 7 July 2025 the delegation of the Presidential Library of the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation headed by Director General Yuri Nosov, Chairman of the St. Petersburg Regional Branch of the Russian Military Historical Society, paid a working visit to the cultural institutions of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.
Love and fidelity in letters of prominent people of Russia
On 8 July, the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity is celebrated annually in Russia. The holiday was established by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 28 June 2022 "in order to preserve traditional family values and spiritual and moral education of children and youth".
Multimedia exhibition about first president of Republic of Buryatia
From 8 to 20 July 2025 the Presidential Library holds the multimedia exhibition Leonid Potapov. 90 Anniversary. 1935-2020, dedicated to the first president of the Republic of Buryatia.
Presidential Library tells about beginning of Battle of Kursk
On 5 July 1943, the Battle of Kursk - one of the largest battles of the Second World War - began. On that day, German strike groups under the plan of Operation Citadel launched an offensive on Kursk from the districts of Orel and Belgorod. The Battle of Kursk, which lasted until the end of August 1943, was decisive in ensuring a fundamental turning point in the course of the Great Patriotic War.
Presidential Library to mark 315th anniversary of Tsarskoye Selo foundation
Sarskaya Manor, Tsarskoye Selo, Detskoye Selo, Pushkin... For more than three centuries of its existence, the town has changed several names. The words said in one of the first guides to Tsarskoye Selo in 1830 "about the splendour of the buildings, the vastness and beautiful views of its gardens, the space of ponds and cascades between them, the simplicity and majesty of various monuments dedicated to great men...", remain relevant to this day.
Presidential Library took part in annual inter-museum project in Alupka
On 4 July 2025, the Massandra Palace of Alexander III, a branch of the State Autonomous Cultural Institution of the Republic of Crimea "Alupka Museum-Reserve", hosted the opening of the annual inter-museum cultural and educational project "Alexander III and his "brave Donets", timed to coincide with the All-Russian Day of Family, Love and Fidelity. The event was attended by the delegation of the Presidential Library of the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation headed by Director General Yuri Nosov.
Presidential Library took part in presentation of book about Margarite Rudomino
On 3 July 2025, the M.I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature hosted the presentation of Andrei Nizovsky's book "Margarita Rudomino".
Sergeant Sarkisian's Three Orders of Glory
The Presidential Library's collection continues to be enriched with electronic copies of documents telling about the Great Patriotic War and the Victory, about front-line soldiers and home front workers who brought the Victory Day closer. Family stories, photos, diaries and letters of the participants of the Great Patriotic War can be found in the Presidential Library's large-scale electronic collection Memory of the Great Victory. Recently one of the sections of the collection - Living Memory - has published digitised photos of the full cavalier of the Order of Glory Shagen Sarkisian (1924-2002) given to the library by the relatives of the hero.
Presidential Library participant of youth forum "Alexander's Flag"
Representatives of the Presidential Library take part in the XV All-Russian youth military-historical forum "Alexander's Flag", which is held in St. Petersburg from 2 to 5 July 2025.
Delegation from China visited Presidential Library
On 1 July 2025 the Presidential Library was visited by a delegation of representatives of the Center for Scientific Documentation and Information of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Library of MSU-PPI University in Shenzhen. The event took place within the framework of the two-day international scientific seminar "Creating Bibliographic Resources" organised by the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The meeting was attended by Liu Wanguo, Director of the Library of MSU-PPI University in Shenzhen, Olga Skvortsova, Director of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and other honoured guests.