Libraries of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society: Principles of Formation and Development
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Tue, 05/12/2026 - 11:38The purpose of the article is to characterize the overall picture of the creation of the network of libraries of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society and its branches in the pre-revolutionary period and to present individual fragments from the history of their formation and basic tendencies of their development. In preparing the article, the author studied the office materials of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society and its branches, both published on the pages of annual reports and protocols of meetings, and unpublished, stored in the archive of the Geographical Society in St.