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Russian State Library (Moscow, Russia)
Founded in 1862, the library was named V.I. Lenin State Library of the USSR in 1925 and it was renamed in 1992 as the Russian State Library. The library has over 275 km of shelves with more than 43 million items, including over 17 million books and serial volumes, 13 million journals, 350 thousand music scores and sound records.
Interestingly, between 1922 and 1991, one copy of every book published in the USSR was deposited in the library. In front of the library, a huge statue of Dostoevsky can be seen. The items in the libraries are in 247 languages of the world, the foreign part representing about 29 percent of the entire collection.
Trivia: More than 90 percent of dissertation abstracts, early printed books, documents from the Cartographic collection and the Universal collection, and more than 80 percent of the music collection are in the public domain.
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