The Presidential Library provides information about what weather it was 300 years ago in Saint-Petersburg

The Presidential Library will digitize over 1,800 rare documents from the fund of the North-Western Department for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring. This is stated in the agreement signed by the Deputy Director General of the Presidential Library Valentin Valentinovich Sidorin and the head of the Northwestern Department for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Valery Yuryevich Tsepelev on May 12.

The earliest documents date back to the XVIII century. These are conclusions of meteorological observations, made in the Academy of Sciences in 1726-1850. In addition, in the near future, the Presidential Library will present observations of sunshine from 1901 to 1903. A monthly meteorological bulletin of the Nikolaev Main Physical Observatory in 1906 will also be available digitally. Today this institution is known as the A. I. Voyeikov Main Geophysical Observatory. 

The observations of atmospheric precipitation, thunderstorms, opening and freezing of waters, as well as ice bulletins for the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea and meteorological observations made in Leningrad during the blockade period are of particular interest.

Digitized materials will be available through a single network of remote access centers of the Presidential Library, which linked all 85 regions of our country, as well as 23 countries.

These and other unique documents will be included in the Presidential Library fund, which today has more than 500 thousand items of storage. These are digital copies of published publications and archival documents, audio and video recordings, abstracts of dissertations and other materials reflecting the centuries-old history of Russian statehood, theory and practice of law, and the Russian language as the state language of the Russian Federation.