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18/02/2026. Foreign/Own: translations of the fairy-tales by the Brothers Grimm into Karelian
The program of the Foreign/Own project was dedicated to the legendary storytelling duo, the Brothers Grimm. The project's participants translated eighteen fairy tales into the Livvik dialect of the Karelian language.
12/02/2026. Presentation of Dmitry Moskin's book "A Journey with Yuri Linnik: Kizhi Island and Its Cosmic Outskirts"
At the conference hall of the National Library of Karelia, people who remember and appreciate the work of our famous townsman Yuri Linnik gathered together. These meetings have been held at our library twice a year for the past eight years.
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.