also the publications donated by G. Polonski și Balen de Bal- laid the foundation for the library’s initial stock. The school director A. Grinevici from Bessarabia, adopted the rules of the public library from Odessa to that of Chisinau. In 1831, the monger Bogaciov makes available for Public Library in Chisinau one of his houses in which it was inaugurated the library. In 1832, the monger I.Kriukov buys Bogaciov’s house and make a proposal to the library to extend the lease until 1853. After Peter Manega has obtained in 1832 the money needed for lease renewal to Kriukov's house, library remained there until 1834- in three small rooms. In 1835, Peter Manega rent for library a new building, built by the same monger Bogaciov, opposite the city boulevard, which does not have an entry from the street. The following librarians - Kozlov, Saburov, Tanki - tried, but failed an improvement of conditions of the institution. Only after 1857, the new librarian Venedict Beler, professor of German Language and Mathematics at Gymnasium No. 1, manage to convince the governor Fonton Verraion that the library can no longer remain in a provisional state. In 1860, the library is transported into a beautiful space located in area of the current USM. V. Beller deals from switching inventory and making the public to know about a composition of the collection and providing access to it. The year 1860 was called in the press “Anul bibliotecii lui Beller”. Due to the lack of finance, at the request of gubernatorial administration, in 1869 library was transferred to the financing of the city. In 1877, according to the order of the Ministry of Interior, library with all its heritage is moved to the headquarters of the Duma. Directors The following have been Directors: Gubernatorial Public Library of Bessarabia (1832-1875) Gavriil Bilevici (1832–1835) Nicolai Kozlov (1835–1846) Mihail Saburov (1846–1847) Ivan Tanskii (1848–1855) Platon Globaciov (IX-XII, 1852) Botean (1855–1856) Petru Şuşchevici (1856–1857) Venedict Beler (1857–1871) Public Library of Chişinău (1876-1939) Kurkovskaia (1871–1877) Daria Harjevskaia (1884–1924) Maria Arionescu (1931–1934) Elena Niţescu (1934-) State Republican Library of the Moldavian SSR (1940-1990) Adeli Cernoviţkaia (1944–1946) Iguatie Teleuţă (1946–1948) Alexandr Suhomlinov (1948–1955) Ion Borş (1956–1959) Alexandru Chirtoaca (1959–1963) Gheorghe Cincilei (1963–1964) Petru Ganenco (1965–1983) Grigore Sudacevschi (1984–1987) Tatiana Levandovskaia (1987–1992) National Library of the Republic of Moldova (from 1991) Alexei Rău (1992-2015) Elena Pintilei (2015-) Collections One of the major tasks of BNRM