Presidential Library visited by Lilia Memetova, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Crimea

On 12 September 2025, as part of the 11th St. Petersburg International Forum of United Cultures, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Crimea Lilia Memetova visited the Presidential Library of the Administartive Directorate of the Russian Federation. She met with Yuri Nosov, Director General of the Presidential Library.

During a tour of the Presidential Library, she was told about the history and architectural features of the Synod building, constructed in the second quarter of the 19th century to a design by the outstanding architect Karl Rossi, and the main activities of the Presidential Library, which is Russia's largest national electronic repository of digital copies of the most important documents on the history of Russian statehood, as well as a multifunctional cultural, educational, scientific, and information and analytical centre with the status of a national library of Russia.

Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Crimea Lilia Memetova visited the library's reading room, where she was told about the specifics of its work, in particular, that access to resources is also provided through electronic reading rooms opened in federal and regional cultural and educational institutions, as well as outside the Russian Federation. Today, there are 43 regional centres of the Presidential Library and more than 1,800 electronic reading rooms in the Russian Federation. Abroad, there are 39 electronic reading rooms of the Presidential Library in 14 countries.

To date, the library's collection includes more than 1.2 million items. These are not only books and archival documents, but also visual and audiovisual materials, some of which were prepared as part of educational activities.

Lilia Memetova viewed the exhibition "Memory of Generations: The Great Victory!", dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Soviet people's victory in the Great Patriotic War, which was prepared jointly by the Presidential Library and the Russian Military Historical Society.  

Lilia Memetova also visited the Constitution Hall, where the main exhibit is located – the only copy of the inaugural copy of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, presented by the President of the Russian Federation to the Presidential Library on the day of its opening on 27 May 2009. A special copy of the Constitution for the inauguration is permanently kept in the Presidential Administration in the Kremlin and is used in the ceremony of the President of the Russian Federation taking office.