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We are very glad to present you the electronic Union Catalogue of Russian XIX Century Book (1826 – 1917). This catalogue consists of 530 000 records of books, stored in six largest Russian libraries:

  • The Russian State Library
  • The National Library of Russia
  • The Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • The State Historical Public Library
  • The Moscow State University Scientific Library
  • The Saint-Petersburg University Scientific Library

The highly qualified specialists of those libraries started to create the catalogue in 1977. In 2000 “The Electronic Archive Co.”, the leading Russian company that specializes on creation of electronic library and archival resources, financed and provided technical support of creation of electronic version of the catalogue. Today this catalogue is the largest source of bibliographical information about Russian-language editions of 1826-1917 period in the world.

Contents: More than 530 000 records on Russian books and brochures: fiction, scientific, official, reference publications, as well as textbooks and albums.

Dates covered: 1826 – 1917

Search Criteria: Author, Corporate Author, Title, Personal Name as Subject, Place of Publication, Publisher, Year of Publication, Organization, Series, Full Record Search

Display and Output Formats: Short description, Full description, Catalogue Card Image

User Interface: Russian and English

Data: Cyrillic or transliteration (according to The Library of Congress standard)

This resource is highly useful to those, who are interested in Russian culture, Russian language and literature, Russian science, politics and history of the XIX and the beginning of the XX centuries. The catalogue describes the most rare items, including official documents, along with the works of outstanding Russian writers, poets, publicists, scientists, as well as the works by many foreign authors, translated into Russian language… On the whole, in our catalogue you can find bibliographical information on Russian-language books of every kind published in Russia and abroad in the above-mentioned period.

In cooperation with library specialists, our programmers provided different search options, convenient ways of record representation, a choice between Cyrillic and transliteration scripts, and both English and Russian interfaces for the catalogue. You can find the necessary book or get the necessary list of editions, filling one or several of the following fields: author, collective author, title, personal name as subject, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, organization, series; the search within results is also possible.

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The annual Internet subscription is available for corporate clients. Consortium discounts are considered.

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CD-ROM version of the catalogue is now available. Please contact us at catalogue@biblio.ru to get additional information.

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