Valery Pavlovich Leonov

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Valeri Pawlowitsch Leonow ( Russian Валерий Павлович Леонов , scientific transliteration Valerij Pavlovič Leonov , English Valerii Pavlovich Leonov); (Born  October 20,  1942 in Uralsk ) is a Russian librarian . He was the director of the library of the Russian Academy of Sciences (BAN) in Saint Petersburg .

life and work

Leonov grew up in Ukraine and studied at the State Cultural Institute in Saint Petersburg, in whose library he worked after graduating in 1969. In 1973 he received a scholarship to stay in the USA. In 1987 he moved to the library of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, which he took over in 1988 after the fire. Incumbent Vladimir Alexandrovich Filov had a heart attack shortly after the fire. Leonov led the reconstruction of the BAN and modernized the library. He published a book about this experience and a multitude of allegations, intrigues and investigations made against him since then, which appeared in Russian in 1996 and in English in 1999. Since 1993 he has been re-elected director every five years. He retired in 2016.

Leonov was a member of the Presidium of the St. Petersburg Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and co-editor of several magazines. In 2000 he received the “Honored Worker of Culture” award.

Publications (selection)

  • Referirovanie i annotirovanie naučno-techničeskoj literatury . Diss., Novosibirsk 1986
  • The Library Syndrome. Munich 1999. Updated edition of Bibliotečnyj sindrom. Saint Petersburg 1996
  • Libraries in Russia. History of the Library of the Academy of Sciences from Peter the Great to Present. Munich 2005
  • Istorija Sankt-Peterburga - Petrograda, 1703 - 1917. Putevoditelʹ po istočnikam. T. 1, Vyp. 2. Saint Petersburg 2005. T. 3, Vyp. 1. Saint Petersburg 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Library Syndrome. Munich 1999
  2. ^ CV (Russian) , accessed April 16, 2010
  3. ↑ Curriculum Vitae , accessed on April 16, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Leonov, Valeri Pavlovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Леонов, Валерий Павлович (Russian spelling); Valerij Pavlovič Leonov (transliterated); Leonov, Valerii Pavlovich (English spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian librarian
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Uralsk