National Library of the Udmurt Republic, National library in Oktyabr'skiy Rayon, Izhevsk, Russia

The National Library of the Udmurt Republic is a major repository with approximately 1.5 million items housed in a building on Sovetskaya Street in Izhevsk. The collection spans multiple floors containing both physical materials and digital resources.

A library council chaired by M. F. Shitov was elected on 24 February 1918 to organise the library, which opened to visitors on 15 May 1918 using stock from the arms and steelworks reading rooms, the Nagornaya and Zarechnaya libraries and the Officers' Assembly library. It lost its reference and fiction departments in the Civil War and reopened on 1 July 1919. In 1937 it was named after Pushkin, in 1957 after Lenin, and in 1989 it gained national status.

The library holds the Book Chamber functions for Udmurtia and cooperates with the M. A. Castrén Society and the Finno-Ugric Society of Finland, as well as with the national libraries of Estonia, Hungary and Finland. It hosted the 2008 international conference "Kuzebai Gerd and the Present", named after the Udmurt writer.

Access to digital catalogs and research assistance makes it easier to locate materials within the collections. Visitors can use both physical documents and electronic resources to conduct their research.

The library received the State Prize of the Udmurt Republic and participates in the Library Assembly of Eurasia network. This recognition highlights its importance as a major archive in the wider Eastern European region.