Can you imagine the crowded halls of the library right now?

Hardly, can you?
And these photos weren't even taken at the famous Leninka, but from the library at the Polytechnic Museum.

Lifetime editions of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Newton, the famous encyclopedia of D'Alambert and Diderot and volumes with drawings of the Eiffel Tower signed by Gustave Eiffel himself.

3.6 million publications in Russian and foreign languages are stored there!
In 2024, the library celebrates its 160th anniversary and it is older than the museum itself!

📷 Courtesy of the Polytechnic library

💥 Russia Beyond

🖼 On September 21, the exhibition “Russia. An Indian View” concluded at the Russian House in New Delhi. The event included a presentation of Parikshat Sahni's book on student life in Russia and a screening of the short film “Hope” about the influence of Alexander Pushkin's works on readers.

🇷🇺 The exhibition, which lasted more than a month, featured paintings, sculptures, photographs and everyday objects related to the USSR and Russia which were provided by the Association of Soviet and Russian University Alumni. The project also included a theater master class themed “Russian Influence on Indian Theater”.

👥 Over 500 visitors, in particular, cultural figures, representatives of the diplomatic corps, teachers and students of the local universities visited the exhibition during its run.

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📚 On September 20, a two-week educational course on Russian language and culture was completed at the JNU in New Delhi, during which teachers of the Minin University of Nizhny Novgorod introduced Indian colleagues and students to the peculiarities of the Russian mentality, traditions and holidays.

👩‍🏫 The classes used innovative teaching methods, including AI and neural networks to create portraits of literary heroes and virtual excursions to Russian cities. A master class on working with wimmelbooks in Russian as a foreign language classes aroused keen interest.

👥 The final event was a recitation contest “Our union, friends, is glorious by right!” dedicated to the works of Alexander Pushkin. The winner was the bachelor student Pratiksha Dzha, who performed the poem “The Storm”. In total, more than 150 people took part in the events and courses.

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