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Metric books, which help residents of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region to restore their family trees, will be added to the electronic collection of the Presidential Library. They are available on the portal from anywhere in the world. These unique documents were preserved thanks to Marina Semyonovna Ratnikova, an honorary citizen of Vsevolozhsk and the head of the Vsevolozhsk Local History Museum for many years.

Throughout her life, she dedicated herself to preserving the history of her hometown. As Marina Semyonovna explains, she obtained the metric books in the early 1980s. Local historian Vladimir Kudryavtsev used these books as a basis for his research. After that, he deposited them in the Local History Museum of Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Petrov Toksovo Secondary School. Later, they were sent to Presidential Library and digitized for the Presidential Library's collection.

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Metric books, which allow residents of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region to reconstruct their family trees, will be added to the electronic collection of the Presidential Library and made available on its website from anywhere in the world. These unique documents were preserved thanks to Marina Semenovna Ratnikova, an honored citizen of Vsevolzhsk, who for many years headed the Vsevolozsk Local History Museum.

She dedicated her life to preserving the history of her hometown. According to Marina Semenovna, metric books were brought to her in the early 1980s. Based on these books, local historian Vladimir Kudryavtsev conducted research, and then donated them to the Local History Museum of the Toksovo Secondary School named after Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Yakovlevich Petrov, where they were digitized for the Presidential Library's collection.

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From September 24 to 26, 2024, the Presidential Library will host the Annual Integration Forum dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the library. Representatives from educational and scientific institutions, including libraries, archives, museums, and public associations at the federal and regional levels, will participate in the event.

Experts from these institutions will discuss various aspects of the work of libraries, archives, and museums in integrating cultural institutions from reunited territories into Russia's cultural space. They will also discuss projects for preserving and presenting tangible and intangible cultural heritage and the digital transformation of libraries in these areas. Additionally, they will address issues related to training and retraining library staff, priorities for the regional network of the Presidential Library, and the experience of national libraries in supporting scientific research in their respective countries.

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A multimedia exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Baikal - Amur Mainline (BAM), which is available for viewers 12 years and older, was opened at the Presidential Library. The exhibition was prepared by staff from the Regional Center of the Presidential Library, which is based on the National Library of the Republic of Buryatia.

The date of opening of the exhibition was chosen for a reason. On July 8, 1974, a resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the Council of Ministers of the USSR was adopted regarding the construction of the BAM railway. This is the date on which the celebration of the 50th anniversary of BAM will take place.

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