Regional scientific library description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Saratov (Topic)

Regional scientific library description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Saratov. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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At the end of the nineteenth century, on the wasteland at the corner of Moskovskaya and Gorky (formerly Aleksandrovskaya) streets, construction began on a building intended for the city library, auditorium and cinema. The idea to combine several directions of the city's cultural activities under one roof was an architectural innovation at that time and belonged to the Petersburg architect N.M. Proskurin.

The asymmetrical building, which opened its doors in 1899, has provoked controversial criticism: windows of different size and shape, projections of projections, "scattered" buildings. All parts of the building are grouped around the main objects - the halls of the cinema and the library.

The library, which existed in Saratov since 1831 only on paper and previously occupied temporary premises, has finally found a home with a spacious reading room and storage room for books. Nowadays, the Saratov Regional Scientific Library, being the main book depository of the region (2.5 million rare editions), occupies the entire building and is considered the educational, information and cultural center of the city.

The public audience, which had a spacious hall at its disposal for holding public readings, meetings, lectures and exhibitions, now serves as a conference hall of the library, where contemporary figures of culture and science speak.

The "Reasonable Cinema", located in a multifunctional building, originally showed newsreels for students schools and gymnasiums, later already an art cinema, having changed several names, became one of the most popular and visited in Saratov.

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