Exhibitions Dedicated to the 220th Anniversary of the USSR Academy of Sciences in June 1945 (From the History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library)

The article was prepared as part of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and is devoted to the history of wartime librarianship. It tells about the participation of the USSR Academy of Sciences Library (now the Russian Academy of Sciences Library) in the jubilee celebrations dedicated to the 220th anniversary of the Academy of Sciences (which was celebrated in June 1945). The Library became one of the responsible performers in the preparation of exhibitions organized in Moscow and Leningrad. Carefully selected exhibits — books, magazines, and manuscripts — provided insight into the results of the Academy’s scientific and publishing activities over more than two centuries. For the first time, based on archival documents, the article shows the conditions under which the preparatory work took place, and the names of the library staff who ensured the functioning of the exhibition housed in the USSR Academy of Sciences Library are mentioned.