Russian State Library for Young Adults, Public library in Baumanskaya district, Moscow, Russia.
The Russian State Library for Young Adults is a library in Moscow's Baumanskaya district with multiple reading rooms designed for different ways of working. The spaces include zones for individual study, group research, and access to digital resources.
The library traces its origin to a youth branch of the State Historical Library opened in 1939 in the Historical Museum on Red Square. On 11 October 1966, by initiative of the RSFSR Ministry of Culture and the Komsomol Central Committee, it became the country's first republican specialised library for readers aged 14 to 21, headed by Irina Bakhmutskaya. In 1974 it created a Central Library Fund that sent thousands of book parcels to new libraries, including settlements along the Baikal-Amur Railway.
The library's name reflects its purpose: it serves readers aged 14 to 30, a group treated as distinct since the Soviet era. Its departments for career guidance and sociology, created in the 1960s, were among the first of their kind in the country's library system.
The library occupies the ground floor of a nine-storey building on Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya, opposite the Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad metro station. The space was originally planned as a shop. It serves readers aged 14 to 30, and registration is needed to borrow items.
The facility includes spaces with recording studios and technology labs where young people can create their own content. These features set it apart from traditional libraries and make it a place for hands-on creativity.
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