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The project is implemented at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg as part of activities related to the 20th anniversary of the Constitution of Russia.

At the all-Russian Congress of social studies teachers, which was held in St. Petersburg on May 18-19, The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library presented a draft of the virtual museum of the Constitution, says the library’s statement.

Today, May 17, at the Presidential Library, St-Petersburg, opened the all-Russian meeting of the chairmen of election commissions of the regions of the Russian Federation on "The tasks of the election commissions for the preparation and holding of elections to the bodies of state power in the regions of the Russian Federation and local self-government in a single day of voting September 8, 2013." The meeting is closed for the press.

Today, May 15, at the Presidential Library of St. Petersburg, the exhibition "Buryatia – a territory of peace and harmony" opened as part of the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Buryatia. According to the information provided to a REGNUM correspondent by the press service of the library, the exhibition was visited by a delegation of the Republic of Buryatia, headed by the Minister of Culture of the Republic, Timur Tsybikov.

Exhibition dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Buryatia, opened today for visitors in the main building of the Presidential Library in St. Petersburg.

The organizers of the exhibition "Buryatia - the territory of peace and harmony," reflected in it the originality of Buryat people’s life in the region and beyond. "The major part of the exhibition is devoted to the real objects of worship and religious rites.

The Presidential Library has begun preparations for the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory. The celebrations will take place in 2015, and the significance of this event is so high that the Presidential Decree "On the preparation and holding of the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" was signed April 25, 2013.

At a meeting with heads of regional election committees in St. Petersburg, the head of the Central Election Commission (CEC), Vladimir Churov, will make a presentation on the relationship of the electoral system and civil society, while his deputy, Leonid Ivlev, will report on the outcome of the formation of district election committees (DECs). According to preliminary data, the committees, which will conduct federal elections in 2016-2018 as well , the majority went to the "United Russia". held in PEC and New, little known parties, which the opposition believes "spoiler" ones, have brought thousands of its members to DEC.

Today, May 15, Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, speaks at the new stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. According to a correspondent of IA REGNUM, Medvedev opened the III International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg and spoke on "Competition and cooperation of legal systems: the role of law in ensuring the development of the society, state and economy" …

The official presentation of the Penza regional center of access to the resources of the Presidential Library took place at the Lermontov Regional Library on Tuesday, May 14. As part of the presentation, the agreement between its representatives and the government of the region has been signed.

The Presidential Library will enhance its collections with the materials of the large nationwide educational project "Audio reader." Innovative training course will be included to the digital collection developed by the library in anticipation of the thematic year of Russian language. It will be officially launched at the Presidential Library on the first day of the new school year. The educational program is a reader of a new generation. The materials have been prepared in accordance with the school curriculum approved by the Ministry of Education and Science.

The Presidential Library - a national repository of digital documents on the history of Russian statehood, theory and practice of law and jurisprudence, will take part in the events of the Legal Forum in St Petersburg.

18 - 19 May 2013, the Presidential Library will host the All-Russian Congress of social science teachers “Constitutional and legal values in the formation of a student’s personality." The event will take place as part of the III St. Petersburg International Legal Forum and is timed to coincide with the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

The 95th anniversary of the oldest Russian military newspaper “Na strazhe Rodiny” ("Defending the Motherland") was celebrated in St. Petersburg.

The first issue of the newspaper, which was then called the "Red Army", was released in May 1918. Later, the newspaper had repeatedly changed its name - "Vooruzhyonnyi narod," "Boyevaya pravda", "Krasnaya zvezda" ... The name “Na strazhe Rodiny” appeared February 4, 1938, when the newspaper became the press organ of the Leningrad Military District.

Even now, when you read the newspapers of those fatal 1940’s, it is impossible to remain indifferent. Correspondents, most often intellectuals and party officials, during the Great Patriotic War issued dozens of partisan newspapers in the region, that helped the army to combat fascism, raised the people to fight the invaders, instilled in them the belief in the victory. On the eve of May 9, the Presidential Library expanded its holdings with the materials about the publishing of underground newspapers in German-occupied territory of the Leningrad region.

The Presidential Library has begun preparations for the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory. The celebrations will take place in 2015, and the significance of this event is so high that the Presidential Decree "On the preparation and celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" was signed April 25, 2013.

At the exhibition which opens May 27, 2013, the Presidential Library will consider the issues of interaction between the society and power in the Romanovs’ Russia through the institutes that had the status of “imperial” ones.

May 15-22, 2013, as part of the celebration events to mark the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Buryatia, the exhibition hall of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library will host the “Buryatia – The Territory of Peace and Accord”, informs the press service of the Ministry of Culture of the republic.

To mark the 68th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Presidential Library enriched its collection “Memory of the Great Victory” with new historical documents. Compared to 2010, when the collection was created, the amount of material has increased 6 times and includes now more than 19, 000 units.

General Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Justice in St. Petersburg, will develop new joint projects with the Presidential Library. As reported the library’s press service to "BaltInfo", this was announced by the deputy head of the General Directorate of the Ministry of Justice in St. Petersburg, Valentina Yakushkina at the event, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Chamber of Notaries of the city.

The Presidential Library will take part in the projects to mark the 200th anniversary of the establishment of Russian-Swiss diplomatic relations that will be celebrated in 2014.

In the Russian Centre of Science and Culture opened a remote electronic reading room of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library (St. Petersburg, Russia). With the opening of the remote electronic reading room in Astana, all RCSC visitors will have access to the information resources of the Presidential Library. At the presentation, the facilities for users to work with digital documents were demonstrated. To mark the opening of the remote electronic reading room in Astana, the digital collection "Russia - Kazakhstan: From a History of Relations" was developed.

At a meeting with the major tour operators of St. Petersburg, the Presidential Library demonstrated its facilities for tourists.

According to the information provided to "BaltInfo" the library’s press service, the historical complex of the former Synod, which houses the first national digital library of Russia, will be developed as a tourist site.

The year of the 1025th anniversary of the Christinization of Russia , the Presidential Library has considerably expanded its collection of unique materials and documents of historical value. The collection and the library’s holdings will be replenished by the materials about the history of Orthodox Church and its development in Russia, as well as its relations with the state.

April 9, students and teachers of the Gatchina school N 8 will go on a trip to St. Petersburg, to visit the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.

During the event, Gatchina citizens will learn about the facilities of the first national library of Russia, located in the historic building of the former Synod and designed as a modern informational, cultural and educational center.

The Presidential Library hosted a meeting with veterans-journalists.

Nearly fifty guests - employees of printing offices in the wartime - have made a considerable contribution to the development of national journalism of the mid 20th century. Without their work the city would not have learned about the most important events of the Great Patriotic War.

A joint project of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library and the newspaper "Na strazhe Rodiny" ("Defending the Motherland"). The oldest in the country military edition provides its unique archive for digitization. Experts of the Presidential Library will digitize and make available all the issues published during the war.

At the VIII St. Petersburg International Book Salon, opening April 25, 2013, the Presidential Library will propose new approaches to the issue of copyright in the digital environment.

According to the information provided to BaltInfo by the library’s press service, the first national digital library of will Russia will present its resources and facilities as informational, cultural, educational and exhibition center. It will feature the materials on e-legislation accumulated during three years, the development of innovation, suitable for modern libraries. The Presidential Library at the Book Salon will appear as a modern site of the 21st century, aimed at drawing attention to its resources through modern methods of presentation of materials.

A curious package came from the shores of the Black Sea to the former Senate and Synod, which today houses the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.

When we opened the parcel, suddenly a gunpowder of the Caucasian war from ancient mountains spread over the Senate Square, says the head of the press service of the library, Valentin Sidorin. - Here's a snippet of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky "The landing at the river Shahe on May 3, 1839."

Cavalry, artillery, army wagons.

And here is the moment of surrender of weapons by Denikin’s units in Sochi, May 2, 1920. Another photo captures the Greek Church of Saint Charalambos in Krasnaya Polyana, destroyed during the rebellion, which is today restored in the capital of the Olympic Games 2014.

Sochi album contains hundreds of such documentary photographs, historical images, that are sure to be of interest to all the athletes, fans and visitors to the Black Sea resorts.

In the Public Chamber was held a hearing on the role of libraries in the preservation of cultural and historical heritage. The hearing was timed to the preparation of the festivities for the 150th anniversary of the Russian Historical Library, as well as to the "Biblionochi 2013", which will be held in Russia from April 19 to 20... In the 21st century, spread the idea of "Library 2.0" - a new way of providing library services through the Internet technology with an emphasis on users participation and interaction between them.

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In the Library of Congress was held a demonstration of a film about Lincoln and Alexander II, created by the Presidential Library of Russia.

The film was based on the materials of the exhibition dedicated to the tsar-liberator, and the president-emancipator. It was prepared by the Washington Foundation for American-Russian Cultural Cooperation and successfully demonstrated in both countries. Both the exhibition and the film are timed to the 150th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom in Russia in 1861, and the liberation of slaves in America two years later.

The Presidential Library will digitize all the issues of the newspaper "Na strazhe Rodiny" (“Defending the Motherland”) which first published satirical articles under the pseudonym of Vasily Tyorkin. The newspaper is also famous for the fact that it had published the detailed military chronicle from 1941 to 1945. The author of the poem "Vasily Tyorkin", Alexander Tvardovsky also started his journalistic career there.

April 17, at the Presidential Library, will meet the winners of the contest "Russia in the Electronic World" from St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, leading this year by the number of winners in the intellectual all-Russian competition. They will be presented with awards and gifts.

On the 1260th anniversary of Staraya Ladoga, to be celebrated in 2013, the Presidential Library presented on its website the first color photographs of the cradle of Russian statehood.

Ladoga was the first capital of Rus, it was there that Prince Rurik arrived with his army and settled in the castle. The place was the crossing point of the trade route "from the Varangians to the Greeks", as evidenced by archaeological finds.

The State Historical Museum on the Red Square plans to conclude an agreement with the Presidential Library.

According to the information provided to "BaltInfo" by the press service of the library, the museum's holdings are expected to be delivered and included to the national digital repository of documents and materials on the history of Russian statehood.

Legal regulation of receiving, preservation and use of information in digital environment should foster the openness of obtaining data and creation of a single database of normative and legal acts. This was stated at the Presidential Library during the third scientific conference covering these issues, held April 11-12, 2013.

The Presidential Library, as part of "Our Olympics" project, presented on the website of the "Joint Information Center» http://infocenter2014.ru/ a unique collection of about 200 rare photographs of the Olympic City, made in the early 20th century and before 1980's.

In time for the Day of Cosmonautics, the Presidential Library presents unique books and studies by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. They describe from different angles the work and personality of this outstanding scientist, the founder of modern astronautics.

News of the day (live broadcast recording).

A large demonstration of a documentary of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, "The Tsar and the President. Alexander II and Lincoln. Liberator and Emancipator" will take place in April at the Library of Congress.

April 9, the Presidential Library signed a cooperation agreement with the Military educational and scientific center of the Navy "Naval Academy named after Naval Admiral of the Soviet Union N.G.Kuznetsov." According to the document the students and faculty of the VUNTS VMF will have access to the entire scope of the holdings of the first national digital library of Russia. The Academy, in turn, will assist in the development and replenishment of the national repository.

The Presidential Library has received from the administration of Sochi photos, depicting the capital of Winter Olympic Games 2014. Digital copy of the old Sochi album is published on the library’s website. This information was given to "Delovaya gazeta. Yug" by the press service of the Presidential Library.

Students of the school № 9, Serdobsk, became winners of the All-Russian contest in history and social science, "Russia in the Electronic World." First place in "Social science" took a tenth-form girl, Amelia Alasheyeva, third place - Irina Antonova. Diploma of the third degree in history was given to Dinara Ergasheva (11th form). The teacher of the winners - Elena Michkasova, is last year’s best teacher of Russia.

Library of the future already exists. Since the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library - it's not just books. First of all, it’s a digital library, where you can read a variety of publications in digital form via the computer. Including rare old books, magazines and newspapers published in the last centuries, which earlier were available only to certain people - the staff of libraries and archives or scientists.

Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library has disposes of 240,000 documents and materials on the history of Russian statehood. It hosted a conference for scientists, students and journalists. Part of the program was a tour of the library.

The Presidential library made openly accessible first color photographs of Staraya Ladoga, made at the beginning of the twentieth century by the famous photographer, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. As was told Itar-Tass today by the press service of the library, the digital collection, published on the library’s website had been prepared in honor of the 1260th anniversary of Staraya Ladoga, to be celebrated in 2013.

Last year, Russia celebrated the 200th anniversary of the victory in the Patriotic War of 1812. In an ordeal, in which victory combined with defeats, none of the military failures had such negative publicity, as the Battle of Berezina. During this battle, Napoleon's army bloodless from hunger and cold, managed to cross the iced Berezina and went beyond the border.

The film tells the history of the monastery, covering its major milestones since the foundation of the monastery by Peter I to the present day.

Today in the multimedia hall of the Presidential Library will be shown and discussed the documentary film "Alexander Nevsky Lavra – 300th anniversary: History and Modernity." Timing of the film - 46 minutes. The film was shot by order of St. Petersburg Administration in time to the 300th anniversary of Lavra by the “Obraz" studio.

Argumenty i Facty - Peterburg and the Presidential Library announce the launch of a joint competition "The Source of Knowledge." We ask four questions, the answers to which can be found in the collections of the Presidential Library at: www.prlib.ru

The Presidential Library has prepared and presented on its website a collection of rare and little-known textbooks on geography.

It includes 164 units of material, divided into three main sections: educational publications issued before 1917, after 1917, and teaching aids on geography. Books allow you to see the process of development of the territory of the country, to feel the political and socio-economic trends in the country reflected in textbooks.

This year, Laura is celebrating its anniversary. 300 years is more than a serious date. The occasion not only to talk and congratulate, but also to make a movie. Which was done by order of Smolny the studio "Obraz." Moreover, in the newfangled format 3D. The premiere of the documentary "Alexander Nevsky Lavra – 300th anniversary: History and Modernity" will be held on April 2. Timing of the film - 46 minutes.

Abstracts of all the theses defended in Russia by applicants for academic degrees, may soon be available on the Internet. Director of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, Alexander Vershinin, speaking at the plenary session of the Petersburg Educational Forum, offered to publish them on the library’s website. - We offer the Ministry of Education to use more actively the facilities of the nationwide repository, of its website, and make available there in digital form abstracts of theses, said he, since an abstract is not only a summary of a scientific research, but also a public and legal document.

On Wednesday, as part of participation in the IV Petersburg Educational Forum, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Livanov was introduced to digital educational resources of the Presidential Library. As informed “BaltInfo” the press service of the library, his visit to the first national digital library was due to the fact that the site was chosen as a venue for the meeting of heads of the country's education, prominent figures of culture and science, public at large. The forum was attended by the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko, Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky and of the Russian Museum Vladimir Gusev, President of the St. Petersburg State University Lyudmila Verbitskaya, Vice-President of RAS Zhores Alferov.

Today, the Fedorov Regional Scientific Library in Kemerovo hosted the official opening of the Kemerovo regional center of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. Presidential Library is a multifunctional institution performing duties of a public library, information and education center, functional center for information support of the public policy, center for support of specialized education and scientific research, archive of public documents related to the history and current state of the Russian statehood, memorial personal archive of the President of the Russian Federation.

Today, 27 March, on the International Theatre Day, in St. Petersburg the holdings of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library were enriched with rare digitized publications on the history and heroic pages of the Russian theater. This information was provided to a REGNUM correspondent by the press service of the library. According to the press service, the publications of the late 19th - early 20th century, "History of the Russian theater before the mid 18th century," of P. O. Morozov, a public lecture by Professor from Kazan, Alexander Arkhangelskii "Theatre of the pre-Petrine Russia," tell us about the formation of theater in our country.

State and journalism. Relationship of the two institutes were discussed today at a press conference held in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. Current development of mass media, freedom of speech, deformation of government values – those were the topics of discussion.

Virtual reading room of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library opened today at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Now, students can access to electronic copies of rare historical documents and books, little-known materials. "This is a unique opportunity to work not with reading books but with the original," said the director of the RSUH library Lyudmila Bativa. "A special pride of our reading room is the original of "The History of the Russian State" by Karamzin and a collection of documents of the Romanov dynasty," she added.

The participants of the meeting are scientists of the Philosophy Department, History Department, Higher School of Journalism and Mass Communication, invited experts – mass media executives and journalists, researchers from universities and research institutions - will discuss the efficiency of the work of the press with the information sources. The conference will address the issue from the point of view of historical research on the relationships between the press and the authorities, the impact of media and state on the society. No matter what dispute will occur and in the discussions of all levels special attention will be paid to the importance of preservation of historical memory and cultivation of patriotism through the press. Speakers will review these traditions established by the publicists of the 19th – 20th centuries with the reference to the present time.

On the eve of the Lent the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library’s holdings were enriched with the book St. John of Kronstadt “On the fast.” As was informed today, 15 March, a correspondent of the IA REGNUM by the library’s press service, for the first time this unique edition was published 120 years ago, during the life of the holy pastor, who was at the time archpriest in the St. Andrew's Cathedral of Kronstadt.

Virtual exhibition "Born to fly ..." dedicated to three times Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal Alexander Pokryshkin, opened today in St. Petersburg, at the Presidential Library in commemoration of the 100th birthday anniversary of the legendary pilot.

According to the press service of the library, the film was based on the materials of an exhibition of the State Museum of Political History of Russia. Its director was Tatiana Dyakonova, cameraman - Vladimir Yarosh. A study in the film is devoted to the analysis of events of the second half of the 1980's - early 1990’s. At the heart of the film are materials of a documentary exhibition, held at the State Museum of Political History of Russia. The authors of the film study the causes of the events of those years, analyzing their impact on the post-Soviet states, the fate of millions of people.

World opera star from America, Nicole Cabell gave a concert in the hall of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. Her lyric soprano experts consider one of the best in the world. In St. Petersburg, the singer presented a new program "Mozart. Arias from operas." For the American diva this visit to the Northern capital was the second. This concert, that included eight arias, opened a series of events under the title "Music nights in the Presidential Library." Public was delighted.

During a visit to Tula, representatives of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library agreed to cooperate with the Tolstoy State Pedagogical University of Tula. It is a corporate project, which will integrate the resources of Tula residents.

On the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of women in St. Petersburg, which was an omen of International Women's Day, the Presidential Library added to its collections March issues of newspapers of different years. It would be wrong to call them festive, because the day of March 8 became a non-working day only in 1965.

In the first years of Soviet power there had been issued many books where people in a comprehensible form were explained the essence of "the gains of October." One of them, "The rights of working women under Soviet law" published in 1925 which now makes part of the electronic holdings of the Presidential Library, shows how ambiguous and really emotionally disturbing were those years, the way the global experiment on the population of the country was going.

Senior pupils from 80 regions of the country not only demonstrated their knowledge, but were able to prepare for Centralized Testing. The first two rounds participants did remotely at the web site of the Olympiad. Dinara Ergasheva, a pupil of the 11th grade, Serdobsk town, the Penza region: “There were very complex issues that were rarely touched in the school curriculum. For example, Marx's theory, rarely addressed, I had to learn it by myself”.

The onsite round of the All-Russian contest in history and social science “Russian in the Electronic World” starts today in the Presidential Library in St. Petersburg. Over 100 high school students who have passed two online rounds will meet at the site of the first national digital library to compete in knowledge.

The Presidential Library will continue to develop as an informational and educational multifunctional center, multimedia complex and national repository of digital historical documents on the development of Russian statehood. In 2013, special attention will be paid to integration of resources of libraries, archives and museums on the digital platform of the first national electronic library.

The Presidential Library will convert into digital form, making available to the general public, newspapers of the first years of the Soviet power, and the White-Guard émigré periodicals. According to the agreement with the library of the Academy of Sciences, the state-level repository of information resources on the history and development of the Russian statehood is preparing to take for digitization microfilms of newspapers’ double-page spreads issued after the October Revolution. To be digitized are the periodicals published before 1920-s. Among the publications are not only Soviet, but also emigrant newspapers - French, German, American, Latvian, Chinese, etc.

Saint-Petersburg, March 1. As part of the International Day of the Arctic, celebrated on February 28, under the heading "Topical document" the library’s web site is featuring shots of the polar expedition by Georgy Sedov to the North Pole in 1912 1913. This was stated to BaltInfo by the press-service of the Presidential Library.

Online conference “The Day of the Arctic in the Presidential Library” was held in Saint-Petersburg on February 28. According to the correspondent of IA REGNUM the conference was organized by the Presidential Library and the Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University.

The Presidential Library begins to participate in the development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, the strengthening of international cooperation in the integrated study of the Arctic, says a press release of the library. February 28, 2013, on the International Day of the Arctic, the conference "The Day of the Arctic in the Presidential Library" will draw the world's attention to the issues of environment, scientific research, education and international cooperation, improvement of the quality of life of the peoples of the territory.

On the threshold of the centennial of the First World War, to be celebrated in 2014, the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg plans to organize an exhibition timed to the anniversary date. Informed the press service of the library a correspondent of IA REGNUM February 26.

Press service of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library announced the plans to create the first Russian Paper Museum in the town of Kommunar, Leningrad Region. The project was presented in the Presidential Library at the closing of the Baltic Media Design.

In the Peter and Paul Fortress was held a requiem, and in the evening at the Smolny Cathedral there will be a concert. The first Russian monarch of the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich was elected to reign March 3, 1613 or February 21 according to the Julian calendar.

The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library is waiting for the finalists of the All-Russian contest in history and social science, "Russia in the Electronic World." In the North-West Federal District, the Leningrad region is one of the leaders by the number of high school students who reached the finals. In the third round of the contest the 47th region will be represented by seven students from Tosno, Lodeynoye Pole, Boksitogorsk, Tikhvin and the village of Melnitsa, Gatchina district.

Electronic collection of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library to reach 300, 000 items by the end of 2013. "Currently the holdings of the first national electronic library amount to more than 220,000 items. According to the plan, by the end of 2013 the number of materials will increase reaching the mark of 300, 000," learned ITAR-TASS at the press service of the Presidential Library.

Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg will publish on its website as a topical document " The civil alphabet with moralizing" published in 1710 with personal corrections of Peter the Great made by hand. As reported in the library today, 18 February, to a REGNUM correspondent the publication will be presented on the eve of International Mother Language Day, celebrated on February 21.

February 27, in St. Petersburg, the Presidential Library and ELAR Corporation will hold a scientific workshop "Technology and practice of quality electronic resources." The event will discuss a wide range of issues concerning the formation of high-quality electronic resources created by digitizing paper originals. Among them are the factors that affect the quality of digital copies and the criteria for evaluation, scanning control methods, standards and requirements for the creation of digital copies and for scanning equipment.

The Presidential Library has initiated modernization to formal publication of legal acts, integration of systems of information and legal support of the government bodies. This corresponds to the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 07.05.2012 № 601 «On the main areas of improving the system of public administration." The document says that by July 15, 2013 the online access to open data contained in the information systems of government bodies of the Russian Federation has to be provided.

The year of the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty and the 310th anniversary of the foundation of St. Petersburg, the Presidential Library opened for public access in electronic form rare books. Meaningful and relevant materials about the founder of the city - Emperor Peter the Great - are first presented to readers today.

This year over 300 Russian students will join the finals of the All-Russian Interactive Contest of the Presidential Library “Russian in Electronic World.” Traditionally, the third round is intramural. Due to the leadership of the Ural Federal District in the number of contestants in the intellectual competition, for the first time in three years the final round of the contest will take place simultaneously in two cities: St. Petersburg and Tyumen.

Church hierarch Nazarius was the first bishop to register in the Presidential Library. He presented the library with new editions covering the history of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra to which he had personally contributed. Lavra’s vicar visited also the house church of the Synod of saint Fathers of Seven Ecumenical councils where he was ordained as bishop four years ago, make a tour of the halls of the historical Synod.

Over 300 Russian students will join the final of the All-Russian contest of the Presidential Library. The Presidential Library makes a special emphasis on the presence among "intelligent contestants” representatives from all regions of Russia. Technical facilities, Internet connections in schools allows all students, regardless of where they live, to try their hand at distance contest in history and social science.

The Presidential Library continues the series of events marking the 400th anniversary of the Romanov House. February 12 it will hold a video lecture timed to the jubilee date, informed BaltInfo the library’s press service.

The Presidential Library in St. Petersburg delivered digital copies of some rare editions to the repository of the Saint Trinity Alexander Nevsky Lavra. This is the first step within the upcoming cooperation.

The “Blockade: Chronicle of Life” exhibition recently opened in the Presidential Library will run until 10 May. The exposition timed to the 70th anniversary of breach of the Leningrad siege and the 69th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi invaders embodies the day of commemoration of all the soldiers and home front workers, children of the Great Patriotic War, those who had survived to celebrate the Victory and those who had not, informs the press service of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.

Over 16, 000 postcards depicting the changes that have taken place in our country in the last century will enrich the holdings of the Presidential Library. Digitization of the collection of “open letters” given over to the first national electronic library by the Central Children’s Postcard Museum is almost completed.

The Administration of the President approves of the regional development of the Presidential Library and proposes to consider the inclusion of its resources to the e-government infrastructure. Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, Igor Shchegolev business manager in his letter to the Head of the Presidential Property Management Department, Vladimir Kozhin stressed that further work of the Presidential Library in the regions will allow forming the centers to cover the activities of public authorities, increase interest in Russian culture on the basis of reliable sources.

Today, February 8, the Day of Russian Science, the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library presented rare editions little-known to the general public on the activities of the Russian Academy of Sciences, informed the library’s press service a correspondent of IA REGNUM.

The Presidential Library intends to use the experience of the Tyumen branch in regional development. The activity of the national digital library in remote access will be based on the principle of comprehensive work involving not only the storage of electronic copies of documents, but also the creation of powerful innovative cultural and educational centers. Thus there will be formed a unified policy development determined by the objectives stated in the order of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the Charter of the Presidential Library.

Marking the 70th anniversary of defeat of the Nazi armies in the Battle of Stalingrad celebrated on 2 February, the Presidential Library has made freely available the front newsreel of 1943.

On a trembling black-and-white film – a New Year show. It’s the New Year of 1942 in the besieged Leningrad. Participants are very small children. The Christmas tree is very elegant, the dance is cheerful and children obviously do not realize that the house under which they are dancing is a bomb shelter, and its floors can collapse at any second.

Alexaner Nevsky Lavra continues to prepare for its 300th anniversary. The opening of a library including electronic carriers of information is timed to the event. The repository will be opening in a step-by-step mode. Today the Presidential Library presented the monastery with first historical materials.

How many people died in the siege of Leningrad – we still do not know the exact number. It is clear that the majority was not killed by shells and bombs. Those are only three percent of the total. The others died from hunger. Tens of thousands were missing. And now, almost seventy years later it turns out that the fates of many of them, in fact, are known. How did this happen? The reason is simple: discrepancies in archival documents. In one document a solder might be registered as missing. And the other list indicates where he is buried. Only now these files are carefully being checked against. And most importantly, they will soon be freely accessible. Sergei Zagatsky not only unraveled this complicated archival story. He himself learned the fate of his own relatives.

Necessary facilities have been prepared, the equipment is being purchased, the questions of technical support are being solved. In the Jewish Autonomous Region is being created a regional center of access to information resources of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library on the basis of the Sholem Aleichem Regional Universal Scientific Library of Birobidzhan. It is planned that the electronic archives and collections of the Presidential Library will be available to readers this year already. The necessary facilities have been prepared, the equipment is being purchased, the questions of technical support are being solved, informed RIA EAOmedia the department of the press service of the JAR governor and government.

Rare editions of works by Vasily Klyuchevsky have been made available in the Presidential Library. The Presidential Library has presented to its readers rare editions of the scientist’s research works. The event was timed to the birthday anniversary of Vasily Klyuchevsky and took place within the Year of Russian history.

January 29, 2013 at 14.00 the "Svyatoduhovsky" religious and educational center of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery will host the presentation of educational projects of the Presidential Library and the newly renovated library of the Holy Trinity Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

Petersburg is preparing for the 69th anniversary of the full removal of the Nazi blockade. The chronicle of life at the besieged city is presented at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. There's an exhibition of unique publications and documents - blockade diaries, letters from the front, propaganda leaflets. Exposition has been divided into four parts – in accordance with the number of blockade years. Each section includes newsreel on large screens and stands with photos.

Unique filming by Leningrad documentary cameramen is publicly available on the website of the Presidential Library at www.prlib.ru.

As BaltInfo was informed by the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library’s press service, materials tell of the struggle for life in the city during the enemy siege. Russian State Archive of Film and Photo documents provided the country's first national digital library with footage of war correspondents from the studio newsreel that present Leningrad and its residents in the most difficult period of 1941-1943.

The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library located in St. Petersburg is planning this year to open its regional centers in Kemerovo, Nenets Autonomous Area and Komi Republic, informed ITAR-TASS the library’s press service.

A delegation of 77 students of the Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University is visiting St. Petersburg from 18 to 25 January. These are the students who got a reward for studying well: during the winter break they are observing masterpieces of the northern capital, reported Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Saint-Petersburg, Alla Kondratieva to YSIA.

The Presidential Library’s holdings have been enriched with an unique collection of postcards, which illustrates the development of Sochi from the 1930s to 1980s. Postcards depicting the resort city have been transferred to the Presidential Library by the Central Children's Postcard Museum. There have been digitized over 100 open letters with views of Sochi, which are becoming widely known in connection with the 2014 Winter Olympics.

The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library has prepared the events to mark the 70th anniversary of breaking the siege and the 69th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad, informed "BaltInfo" the press service of the library. Thus, the heroic events of the war years, the heroism of the inhabitants of the besieged city are disclosed in the materials of the electronic collection of the Presidential Library, "The Memory of Great Victory."

March 9, 2013, at 19.00 American opera star, the winner of the prestigious BBC contest "Singer of the World" in Cardiff, Nicole Cabell (soprano) will give a concert at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library as part of the concert series "Music nights in the Presidential Library".

For the Day of the Russian Press, which is celebrated on January 13, the St. Petersburg Presidential library has prepared a collection of rarities. The digital library will make available to all interested 47 rare periodicals on law, literature, local history and geography.

The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library will focus in 2013 on the promotion of the study of the Russian language and its history. The Presidential Library traditionally sets a theme of the year, which determines the subject area for the exhibitions in its halls and virtual collections on the web site, as well as for researches and conferences. Thematic year coincides in time with the school year. After the end of the Year of the Russian people, which started in September 2012, the library will announce the beginning of the Year of the Russian language.