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10/02/2026. Cooperation with the National Library of Belarus
Since 2024, the National Library of Karelia has cooperated with the National Library of Belarus in order to exchange books and mutually benefit library collections. The parties regularly exchange bibliographic information about documents from the libraries' exchange collections.
08/02/2026. Karelia, Open to All: A Program at the Art-Winter in the Old Town Festival
The National Library of Karelia took part in the museum event Art-Winter in the Old Town of the Kizhi Open-Air Museum with an interactive program Karelia, Open to All, dedicated to the Year of Unity of the Peoples of Russia.
04/02/2026. A presentation of a new book by Alexander Fedosov
The National Library of Karelia held a presentation of a new book. Readers saw the book by Alexander Fedosov ”Extermination Battalions and Combined Units of the NKVD of the Karelo-Finnish SSR during the Great Patriotic War: a Forgotten History”.
27/01/2026. The awarding ceremony of the Take and Read competition
The solemn awarding ceremony of the thirteenth season of the online reader recommendation competition Take and Read.
23/01/2026. The National Library of Karelia took part in the festival in memory of Nikolai Abramov
Podporozhye Central Library held a festival Strokes of Nikolai Abramov. The event was dedicated to Nikolai Abramov, People’s Writer of Karelia and Vepsian poet.
20/01/2026. Foreign/Own: "A Romantic of Fantastic Realism" Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
This year, the first meeting of the Foreign/Own project was dedicated to the writer celebrating his anniversary, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, and his famous fairy tale, The Nutcracker, fragments of which the participants translated into the Karelian language.
19/01/2026. Awarding Ceremony the Magic Christmas 2025 competition
The National Library of Karelia held the awarding ceremony of the Magic Christmas competition – the international art competition for children and young people.