The Presidential Library’s Academic Council meeting dedicated to information support of public authorities

On December 2, 2022 the regular 21st Academic Council meeting was held at the Presidential Library in a face-to-face format. The meeting participants brought together not only in the hall of the Academic Council at the Presidential Library in St. Petersburg, but also thanks to video conferencing - in the cities of Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Simferopol, Stavropol, Khabarovsk, Shenzhen (PRC), Yakutsk.

Yury Nosov, Director General of the Presidential Library, made a report on “Information Support for the Activities of State Bodies of the Russian Federation by Institutions of Culture, Science, Education: Approaches and Practices”.

The topic of the report received additional coverage in the speeches of Admiral Viktor Chirkov - Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy in 2012–2016, chairman of the regional public organization Admirals Club in St. Petersburg: as well as the heads of organizations associated with a strategic partnership with the Presidential Library: Director of the Russian State Archive of the Navy Valentin Smirnov, Director of the Russian State Historical Archive Svetlana Shtukova, First Vice-Rector, Chairman of the Academic Council of the University of Shenzhen MSU-BIT University Sergey Shakhray, Rector of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture Alexander Turgaev, Director of the Fundamental Library of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia Natela Kvelidze-Kuznetsova.

Vladimir Gronsky, Director General of the National Library of Russia, Alexander Samarin, Deputy Director General for Research and Publishing Activities of the Russian State Library, Mikhail Afanasiev, Director General of the State Public Historical Library of Russia and President of the Russian Library Association, Head of the Virtual Russian Museum Service of the Russian Museum Marina Gladkikh were involved in the general debate.  

The Academic Council decided to devote the next meeting to discussing the development and use of the total collections of the Presidential Library in the context of international relations with cultural institutions of friendly countries and solving the problems of historical education.