The Presidential Library and Republic of Buryatia: a new step towards interaction

On November 15, 2023, during the days of the RUSSIA EXPO in Moscow, a cooperation agreement was signed between Republic of Buryatia and the Presidential Library, subordinate to the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation.

The document was signed by the Head of Republic of Buryatia - Chairman of the Government of Republic of Buryatia Alexey Tsydenov and Director General of the Presidential Library Yuri Nosov.

“Signing a cooperation agreement with the Presidential Library opens up great opportunities for our teachers, schoolchildren and youth in terms of access to a huge amount of data and storage of digital copies of the most important documents on the history of our country”, - noted Alexey Tsydenov.

The agreement is aimed at creating a single information space that will help strengthen patriotism, spiritual and moral values, preserve historical memory, counter the falsification of history, and strengthen the ideas of Russian statehood and citizenship in the public consciousness, especially among young people.

Particular attention will be paid to supporting information, educational and cultural activities using the information resources of the Presidential Library on the territory of the republic, developing cooperation with federal and regional higher educational institutions, on the basis of which training in pedagogical and library fields is carried out; creation and promotion of exhibition projects based on materials from the Presidential Library’s collections, including those included in the Collection of digitized archival documents, film and photo materials “World War II in Archival Documents”.

Director General of the Presidential Library Yuri Nosov notes: “As part of the agreement, it is planned to create remote access centers based on model libraries in Republic of Buryatia, as well as develop partnerships with fund-holding organizations of Republic of Buryatia - archives, libraries, museums. This will allow the Presidential Library’s collections to be entered with information of state, historical and cultural values”.

Cooperation between the Presidential Library and Republic of Buryatia is actively developing. In 2009, a cooperation agreement was signed between the Presidential Library and the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Buryatia. In 2011, a regional center of the Presidential Library was opened ay the National Library of the Republic of Buryatia. Today, there are also 13  remote access centers to the resources of the Presidential Library in the region.

During the period of cooperation, many joint projects were successfully implemented, including conferences, exhibitions, exchange of information resources, etc. Representatives of government bodies and cultural institutions of the republic, schoolchildren and students take an active part in library events.

For the Presidential Library, interaction with regions is one of the key areas of activity. The library's digital collection includes more than a million depository items. Among them are electronic copies of printed and archival materials, audio and video recordings, as well as other documents covering the centuries-old history of Russian statehood, the theory and practice of law, and the Russian language as the state language of Russia. Regional electronic collections, which present materials from 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 Republic of Buryatia: Pages of History. It includes research, essays, collections of documents, statistical publications of the 19th–21st centuries, archival and cartographic materials of the 18th–20th centuries and modern legislative documents that introduce the demographic, ethnographic, socio-political and socio-economic aspects of the history of the Buryat people,  including the period of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and modern Republic of Buryatia as part of the Russian Federation.