Omsk State Library, Research library in central Omsk, Russia

The Omsk State Library, also known as the Pushkin Regional Research Library, is a public research library in Omsk, a city in western Siberia. The building rises several floors and holds specialized collections covering many fields of study, alongside open reading areas.

In 1899 the Omsk Municipal Duma decided to open a public library for Pushkin's centenary; it began in January 1907 in two rooms of the Duma extension, with 4,160 books and 370 readers in its first year. In 1920 the library received the collections of nationalized libraries, growing to 300,000 items within two or three years. Since 1940 it has received a copy of every book published in the country, and on 28 April 1995 it moved to a new building.

The library is named after Alexander Pushkin, and its first exhibition, held in January 1920, was devoted to his life and work. Since 1924 it has occupied the former Municipal Duma building, where the reading hall opened in 1907. Every five years it hosts the Dravert Readings, a national research conference named after local scientist P. L. Dravert.

Because the building spreads across several floors with different collections on each level, it is worth picking up an orientation guide at the entrance before heading in. Access to some archive holdings may require advance registration, so it is a good idea to check before your visit.

Eight 3.5-metre figures of hammered blued copper stand in niches along the main facade, installed in spring 1993, not in 1995. Vasily Trokhimchuk made the Pushkin and Andrei Rublev figures himself; Leningrad sculptors Mikhail Yershov, Lev Kolibaba and Vladimir Yeryomin carved the other six. The side facade carries a 30-metre relief centred on the Universal Mother, with Icarus and Atlas larger than the roughly one hundred other figures.