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The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library has opened a new electronic collection dedicated to the 155th anniversary of the birth of the first Russian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin. The collection includes his biographical materials, personal correspondence, collected works and rare publications, many of which previously had access only to researchers.

The Presidential Library's collection also includes memoirs of Bunin's contemporaries and studies of his work. The portal presents material from the Russian World magazine, which tells about the life of a young Bunin in Yelets and about his creative path in literature.

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155 years ago, on October 10 (October 22, new style), 1870, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin was born – an outstanding writer, poet and translator, the first Russian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933).

On the eve of the significant date, the Presidential Library's portal published a new electronic collection "I. A. Bunin (1870-1953)", which includes biographical materials, personal correspondence, collected works and selected works of the writer, as well as research on his work, and much more.

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On October 9, 2025, the regional forum "Stronger Together", a regional conference of the RBA, was held in Donetsk, at the Center of Slavic Culture. The forum brought together more than 100 library specialists from Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions.

The participants were welcomed by the Minister of Culture of the DPR Mikhail Zheltyakov and the Acting Minister of Culture of the Zaporozhye region Svetlana Nazina. Yuri Nosov, General Director of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library (video message), Dmitry Narizhny, General Director of the N. K. Krupskaya Donetsk Republican Universal Scientific Library and Evgeniya Guseva, Executive Director of the RBA and Director of Industry Projects at the Russian State Library of Russia.

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Dmitry Donskoy went down in history as a collector of Russian lands, and his name is inextricably linked with the Battle of Kulikovo, which marked the beginning of the liberation of Russia from the Mongol-Tatar yoke. Dmitry Ivanovich was born on October 12, 1350 in Moscow. His parents were Prince Ivan II the Red of Moscow and Princess Alexandra Ivanovna. After the death of the prince, his eldest son Dmitry, who was only 9 years old at the time, became the head of state. Metropolitan Alexy Byakont became the guardian and mentor of the young ruler – for some time it was he who would actually become the ruler of Russia, and Dmitry Ivanovich would often consult with him in his mature years.

The materials of the electronic collection on the Presidential Library's portal, which includes various studies and translations of ancient Russian sources, tell more about the life of Dmitry Donskoy and his military battles. – "Historical readings on language and literature: The Zadonshchina of the Great Prince Dmitry Ivanovich..." (1858) by the philologist-Slavist Izmail Sreznevsky, "The overthrown Mamai, or a detailed description of the memorable battle..." (1798) by second lieutenant Ivan Mikhailov, historical and biographical works, for example, "Dimitri Donskoy and the Battle of Kulikovo" (1863) by a teacher St. Petersburg Theological Academy of Ivan Kataev, works of art, visual and commemorative materials.

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