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Students from the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Law at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation visited the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library as part of a guided tour.

During the tour, students learned about the history and architectural features of the building, saw the restored interiors, visited the house chapel, learned how the electronic reading room works, and visited the Constitution Hall, which displays printed publications, photo chronicles, archival documents reflecting the history of Russian constitutionalism from the emergence of constitutional ideas to the adoption of the current Constitution.

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The best metro employees were honoured today at the Presidential Library. The ceremony for presenting state, departmental and industry awards took place ahead of the 70th anniversary of the St. Petersburg metro.

As Alexander Beglov noted, the metro system in Russia's northern capital is the backbone of the city's transport system. Since its opening, it has become the most popular form of public transport. Today, metro construction is one of the city's 10 development priorities.

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On 10 November 1919, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, Soviet and Russian small arms designer, Hero of Russia, twice Hero of Socialist Labour, was born into a large peasant family in the Altai Governorate.

Information about the life and work of this world-famous gunsmith can be found in the section "Outstanding Scientists and Inventors" of the "Great Russia" project on the Presidential Library portal.

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The final resolution of the second international conference "The Russian Language – the Basis for Integration Dialogue in the CIS Region," which took place on 16–17 October 2025 in Saint Petersburg, has been published.

The event was organised by the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature, the Union of Translators of Russia, the Russian State Library, the Presidential Library, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg State University, the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, the North-West Institute of Management – a branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, the Patrice Lumumba Russian University of Friendship of Peoples, and Moscow State Linguistic University.

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