In the old days, people valued knowledge more than material wealth. Books were very expensive, and sometimes it was completely impossible to find the right edition. That is why, even at the dawn of the development of writing, libraries were invented - special repositories for recorded information. They exist even today - it’s so convenient and pleasant: take a book of interest for a while, hold a real second-hand copy in your hands and look for the answer to the question of what to read among the rows of long racks. The Nikitin Library of Voronezh is one of the largest and oldest in the city, it still works today.
Voronezh Libraries
The first public library in the city was founded in 1757. The institution belonged to the seminary, its teacher and brought here the first books on a personal initiative. The library for a long time remained accessible only to seminarians and their teachers, for this reason already in 1834 the idea arose of creating another book depository, this time public. Since this organization was non-profit and existed through private donations, after 20 years it ceased to exist. In 1855, the inhabitants of the city again had nowhere to read books. But already in 1864, Ivan Nikitin, the owner of a bookstore who opened his own reading room, solves this problem. This is the Nikitin library of Voronezh, popularly called the Nikitinka, which exists today.
People have always loved to read.
An important role in the fate of the public library was played by caring citizens. A significant contribution to the development of the book depository was made by: A.V. Venevitinov, M.F. De-Poulet, V. Ya. Tulinov and A.V. Stankevich. One of the enthusiasts even allocated private premises, and the Nikita Library of Voronezh finally found its home. It was a wooden wing of a residential building located at Revolution Avenue, building 30. In 1914, the collection contained about 60 thousand volumes. The library at that time had several branches in the city and region. In the Soviet years, the collection of books was called “named after Ya.M. Sverdlov. " Like many other libraries in Voronezh, Nikitinka received a new building - Revolution Avenue, building 22 (the governor himself used to live here). In 1963, the old name is returned to the book store - by the name of the founder. And a year later the library is moving again, for the last time.
Nikita library today
Nowadays, the book depository works and receives visitors. The Nikitin Library of Voronezh is located at Lenin Square, house 2. For recording, you will need a passport and a 3x4 cm photograph, do not forget to make a symbolic membership fee - about 20 rubles. Warning the library has special rules for visitors. Only transparent bags can be taken to the reading room; opaque bags must be taken to the wardrobe. Today in the collection of the Nikitin library there are more than 3,000,000 materials of various types: these are traditional paper books, and electronic files, as well as audio and video materials.