The University Library

A brief history. The history of the Library is inseparable from the history of the University which was
established in 1920. The first Head of the University, an outstanding scholar and a pedagogue, Nikandr
Aleksandrovich Marx, was sure that “a higher educational institution cannot exist without competent
scientists and scholars and a good collection of books”.

The University library to-day: funds and structure

The Library of Kuban State University is one of the biggest libraries in the south of Russia.

The Library meets the needs of more than 29 000 readers (students, post-graduate students and
professors and lecturers of the University ).
The University fund houses more than 1 mln 200 thousand printed items consisting of books of fiction,
scientific, academic and foreign literature, periodicals and journals.

The Library takes pride in the collection of rare books published in the XYII – XXI c.c.

The Library has 7 reading rooms and 500 places for readers. There are libraries attached to faculties,
often consisting of modern specialized literature (professionally biased textbooks, manuals and
periodicals).

The Library is one of the centres of the university students* activities. The forms of the Library
communication with its readers are actually various: debating clubs, exhibitions of books, literary thematic
reviews, presentations of new books, meetings with writers and journalists.

The Library is actively involved in developing electronic information. It parlicipales in the online catalogue.