On the basis of archival documents stored in the collection of the Russian state library, the problems related to the distribution of books received by the Rumyantsev museum after the October revolution 1917 from the nationalized state, public and private book collections are studied.
The article is devoted to the Russian emigrant collection in Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii (Honolulu, USA). The range of Russian emigrant literature covers materials published in China, Korea, Japan, Australia, Alaska, the Pacific coast of the United States, and South America. The children literature collection is a special value. Besides there are archival materials devoted to Russians in the Asia-Pacific region. The history of its formation is described.
The article examines the attempts of the Library of Congress of USA to establish contacts for book exchange with the Tuvan People's Republic. This fact took place in the second half of the 30s in the XX century. However, the Tuvan side, as evidenced by the analysis of well-known archival documents, did not provide any answers. Such attitude of the Tuvan People's Republic authority is explained by a number of reasons. One of them was a geopolitical situation both at the global and regional levels.