Rare Book Collection

This Collection of scientific, popular science, and fiction domestic and foreign publications is kept in a specially equipped room.  Journals published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are an important part of the Collection.  

Encyclopedias, encyclopedic publications, and various nineteenth century dictionaries are of particular value for scientific research and education.  The Collection contains such well-known publications as the "Encyclopedic Dictionary" by F. A. Brockhaus and I. A. Efron and "The Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Russian Bibliographic Institute Granat". “The Russian Encyclopedia”, published in 1911 in St. Petersburg, is noted for its rich and comprehensive content in a small volume.

The pride of the University library is 92 volumes of Voltaire's first complete works in French that was published only 7 years after the author’s death.

The Rare Book Collection is the repository for commemorative book collections. In 1991, the NSU library received a collection of books on Russian history, philosophy, theology, the history of literature, and memoirs as a gift from the famous publisher YMCA-PRESS (France). This small but priceless collection is always in demand by readers studying the history and culture of Russia. Also of note is V. A. Avrorin’s personal collections. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the first Dean of the Humanities Department, and a major specialist in the study of Tungus-Manchu languages.

The Rare Book Collection has a small cozy room where readers are provided a comfortable environment to work with literature of great scientific and cultural significance.