Voronezh Scientific Library named after I.S. Nikitin

The Voronezh Regional Universal Scientific Library named after I.S. Nikitin, one of the oldest and largest in the Russian cultural province, was opened in 1864 at the initiative of a group of advanced intelligentsia of Voronezh. The foundation of the fund was donations to the public of the city and individuals. By the time of its opening, the library had an extensive collection of books, handwritten, pictorial and other materials. Con. XIX - early XX centuries: three branches of the library in Voronezh, one in Bobrov, a country pass, a branch in Nizhnedevitsk. After the October Revolution, the public library became a state library. 1919: She was given the name of Y.M. Sverdlov. The main facade of the library building is focused on the facade of the opera and ballet theater.15 October 1963: the library was named after the Voronezh poet I.S. Nikitin. 1965: the library received the status of scientific, since 1975 it is the depositary of the Central Black Earth zone of the Russian Federation, since 1991 it has started the project of library automation, since 1998 - the project of creating a single regional library computer network. Technologies of the main library and information processes are automated, Internet access is carried out. Since 2001, the library is a member of the Russian Library Association, since 2004 - the corporate library system "Chernozemye". The library fund is more than 3 million printed, audiovisual and electronic materials. A valuable part of the fund is the collection of the Voronezh writer and literary critic O.G. Lasunsky (about 800 units of the Chronicle), containing books with author’s gift inscriptions and marginalia, the first works of the Voronezh provincial printing house, local history materials.