the 1980s and 1990s. The National Library began a large-scale digitization project at the end of the 20th century by taking part in the Library of Congress project Meeting on Frontiers. By 2012 the Library, along with its counterpart in Moscow, had around 80,000 titles available electronically. Looting during World War II After the end of the Second World War, millions of German art objects, books and archival materials were brought to the Soviet Union. Some of these cultural assets were returned to the former GDR in the 1950s. However, to this day, among other things, there are still more than 200,000 works of art, three million books and archival material with a length of three shelf kilometers in German provenance in Russia. References Bibliography Stuart, Mary. A Potent Lever for Social Progress': The Imperial Public Library in the Era of the Great Reforms". Library Quarterly (1989): 199–222. . Stuart, Mary. "The Evolution of Librarianship in Russia: The Librarians of the Imperial Public Library, 1808–1868". Library Quarterly (1994): 1–29. . Stuart, Mary. "Creating Culture: The Rossica Collection of the Imperial Public Library and the Construction of National Identity". Libraries & culture (1995): 1–25. . Stuart, Mary. "Creating a National Library for the Workers' State: The Public Library in Petrograd and the Rumiantsev Library Under Bolshevik Rule". Slavonic and East European Review 72.2 (1994): 233–258. . In Russian История Государственной ордена Трудового Красного Знамени Публичной библиотеки имени М. Е. Салтыкова-Щедрина. — Ленинград: Лениздат, 1963. — 435 с., [15] л. ил. История Библиотеки в биографиях её директоров, 1795—2005 / Российская национальная библиотека. — Санкт-Петербург, 2006. — 503, [1] с.: ил. — . See also Russia has two additional national libraries: Russian State Library, Moscow Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, St. Petersburg External links Official site of the library Russian National Library on the Fontanka Embankment Russian National Library on the Moscow Prospect The personal library of Voltaire as exhibited in the RNL 1795 establishments in the Russian Empire Carlo Rossi buildings and structures Deposit libraries Libraries established in 1795 Libraries in Saint Petersburg Library buildings completed in 1814 Russia Nevsky Prospekt Public libraries World Digital Library partners