Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
| Presidential Library "BN Yeltsin" | |
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 The library building on Platz des Senate 3
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| founding | 2007 (opening 2009) |
| Library type | National Library |
| place | St. Petersburg |
| operator | Administration of the President of the Russian Federation |
| Website | www.prlib.ru |
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ( Russian Президентская библиотека имени Б. Н. Ельцина ) is a library in Saint Petersburg and one of the three Russian national libraries . One of the library's core tasks is the digitization of historical media. The library is under the administration of the President of the Russian Federation .
The library was founded on April 26, 2007 by decree of Vladimir Putin as the "Library of the President of the Russian Federation" with a budget of 5 billion rubles . The library was named after the former Russian President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, who died in 2007 .
In October 2008, the library received the status of a national library and the right to copy books with the federal “Law on Libraries” ( Russian О библиотечном деле ). The library housed in the building of the Senate and Synod was opened on May 27, 2009 and opened to the public on September 1, 2009. Their electronic reading rooms have access to holdings of more than 215,000 storage units, including digital copies of old manuscripts, maps, photo collections, newspapers, monographs and scientific works obtained from the holdings of the Russian State Historical Archives, State Archives of the Russian Federation, Russian National Library , Russian State Library and regional libraries.
In November 2014, the library announced the creation of a regional online encyclopedia to act as an alternative to Wikipedia . The library reported that Wikipedia was "unable" to provide "detailed and reliable information about the regions of Russia and life in the country."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b About Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library . In: www.prlib.ru . Archived from the original on July 19, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 18, 2014.
- ↑ Библиотека имени Ельцина обойдется бюджету в 5 миллиардов Lenta.ru , March 2, 2007.
- ↑ Распоряжение Президента Российской Федерации № 326-рп от 18 июня 2007 года "О создании Президентской библиотеки имени Б. Н. Ельцина » ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ About the World Digital Library: Partners . In: www.wdl.org . Retrieved May 24, 2013.
- ↑ Федеральный закон Российской Федерации № 183-ФЗ от 27 октября 2008 года "О внесении изменений в статью 18 Федерального закона" О библиотечном деле "" ( page no longer available , searching web archives ) Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Медведев откроет Библиотеку Ельцина в Петербурге в День города. ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: RIA Novosti , May 27, 2009; Медведев открыл в Петербурге библиотеку имени Ельцина, задуманную Путиным. In: NEWSru.com , May 27, 2009.
- ↑ Президентская библиотека имени Ельцина приняла первых посетителей. In: Telekanal «Kultura» , September 1, 2009
- ↑ Tom Parfitt: Russian Library to Launch Web Rival to 'Untrustworthy' Wikipedia . In: The Daily Telegraph . November 14, 2014. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
- ^ The Presidential Library Began to Develop a Regional Electronic Encyclopedia. In: prlib.ru. November 14, 2014, accessed November 15, 2014 .
Coordinates: 59 ° 56 '6.2 " N , 30 ° 18" 6.4 " E