Library, Gorky Street 40, Saratov, Regional scientific library in Saratov, Russia.

The library at Gorky Street 40 is a scientific institution housing collections of literature, research materials, and historical documents within a classical building. The facility includes reading rooms, digital archives, and exhibition spaces that serve different types of intellectual work.

The institution was founded in 1831 as part of Russia's expanding interest in education and sharing knowledge. Since then it has evolved, adapting its collections and services to meet the changing needs of Saratov.

The library's name honours the Imperial Free Economic Society, whose president Count Nikolai Mordvinov initiated its founding. Since 1899 it has occupied the People's Auditorium (Narodnaya Auditoriya), a building by architect Nikolai Proskurnin; the institution also holds rare 18th- to early-20th-century books and journals.

The library occupies the former People's Auditorium building at Gorky Street 40, designed by Nikolai Proskurnin and opened in 1899. Readers work in its reading rooms and consult holdings that include rare books and journals from the 18th to the early 20th century. The building is listed as a regional cultural heritage site.

The library moved into the Narodnaya Auditoria building in 1899, designed by architect Nikolai Proskurnin. By then its collections already held more than ten thousand volumes, and the institution had spent decades shifting between rented rooms since its founding in 1831.