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Collectionguides
Russian,Ukrainian,BelarusianandBaltic
collections

V.Kamenskii,D.Burliuk.Tangoskorovami.Moskva,1914.(Tangowithcows)
WehaveoneoftheleadingresearchcollectionsintheworldforSlavonicandBalticstudiesand
forresearchonRussiaandtheformerSovietUnion.Printandnonprintmaterialsarebeing
activelyacquiredfromthecountriesoforigininvernacularlanguages,includingasmallnumberof
itemsinminoritylanguagesspokeninthesecountriesand,whereappropriate,publishedby
diasporas.

Aboutthecollection
Thecollectionincludesprintmonographs,periodicals,newspapers,statistics
andofficialpublications,aswellasarchivalmaterial,maps,philatelicitems,
photographs,musicscores,soundrecordings,visualartmaterials,posters,
postcardsandephemera.
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Notable16thcenturyraritiesincludebooksprintedbyFrantisakSkarynaand
IvanFedorov.Our18thcenturyRussianholdingsarethelargestandmost
diverseintheUK.Theyconsistofaround600worksinRussianorChurch
Slavonic,aswellasbooksinWestEuropeanlanguagesprintedintheRussian
Empire.PublicationsoftheRussianAcademyofSciencesareparticularlywell
represented.The19thcenturycollectionsincludealmostcompleterunsof
publicationsofRussianimperiallearnedsocieties.Thereisalsoanextensive
collectionofRussianandUkrainianavantgardebooksoftheearly20thcentury.
TheUkrainiancollectionsarestronginliteraryandlinguisticworksbyUkrainian
writersofthesecondhalfofthe19thcentury.Thecollectionisparticularlyrichin
Ukrainianbookspublishedattheturnofthecenturyandinthefirstthree
decadesofthe20thcentury,bothinsideandoutsideUkraine.Alargeproportion
ofthepublishingoutputofthe18th,19thandearly20thcenturiesrelatingto
BelarusisinRussianor,toalesserextent,inPolish.Wehavefirsteditionsof
fundamentalworksforthestudyoftheBelarusianlanguageandculture.
TheBalticcollectionscameintobeinginthecourseofthe19thcenturyasaby
productoftheLibrary'sGerman,PolishandRussiancollections.Theyinclude
earlypublishing,suchasnotableexamplesoftheoldestformsofvernacular
literatureandfolkliterature.HighlightsincludethefirstLatvianBible,andthe
onlysurvivingfragmentofthefirstLithuanianBible(GenesisJoshua).Wehave
considerablematerialonthehistoryoftheBalticregion,itsliteraturesand
languages.Wehavemanycompleteseriesoftheimportantlearnedsocieties.
Amongtheholdingsareimportantmaterialsthatcovertheperiodof
independencebeforeWWII,includingofficialpublications,
TheBritishLibraryhasahistoricalcollectionofmaterialsonsciences,mainlyin
Russian,whichisrelatedtotheperiodoftheColdWar,butatpresentwedonot
collectmaterialonscience,technologyandmedicineinSlavonicandEast
Europeanlanguages.SubstantialmaterialinEnglishandothermajorEuropean
languagesisalsocollectedtosupportSlavonicandEastEuropeanStudies.We
alsocollectsomecontemporaryfictionandprimarysourcematerials.Some
primarysources(especiallynewspapersandarchivalmaterialsheldabroad)are
availableinmicroform.

Whatisavailableonline?
AlargenumberofdigitalresourcesareavailableonsiteviatheReadingRoom
PCs.Asaresultoflargescaledigitisationprojectswehavedigitisedthousands
ofoutofcopyright(17th19thcentury)books,manyoftheminRussianor
Ukrainianlanguages.TofindthemsearchExploretheBritishLibrary
[http://explore.bl.uk/]andthenrefineyourresultlistbyAccessOptions:Online.
TheBritishLibraryalsosubscribestoanumberofelectronicresources,which
arelistedunderSlavonicandEastEuropeanelectronicresources
[http://www.bl.uk/eresources/ahsub/elecsuboff7.html#Slavonic]andare
availableonsiteintheLibraryReadingRooms.
Asmallcollectionofelectronicbooks(mostlyRussianclassics)isalsoavailablefromthe
Integrumdatabase[http://www.bl.uk/eresources/ahsub/elecsuboff7.html#Slavonic].
TheseriesofdatabasesMassCulture&EntertainmentinRussia
[https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?
www.primarysourcesonline.nl.t4&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=http://www.primarysourcesonline.nl/t4/
]givesaccesstocollectionsofextremelyrarematerial:pagebypagescansofbooksandserials
relatedtofilm,theatreandsports,aswellascollectionsofarchivalmaterial,suchasArtek
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PioneerCampArchives,19441967[https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?
www.primarysourcesonline.nl.ead.archdesc.php&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=http://www.primarysou
rcesonline.nl/ead/archdesc.php?faid=527toc.xml].

RussianandUkrainiandigitalcollectionscanbefoundontheEndangered
ArchivesProgramme[http://eap.bl.uk/]website.
Visualandprintedmaterialsfromourcollections,suchastheRussianposters
collection[https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?
www.europeana1914
1918.eu.en.collection.search&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=http://www.europeana19
141918.eu/en/collection/search?
utf8=%E2%9C%93&qf%5Bindex%5D%5B%5D=a&qf%5Bq%5D%5B%5D=russi
an&qf%5Bq%5D%5B%5D=russian+posters]arealsoavailableviasome
externalsites,suchasEuropeana19141918
[https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?www.europeanacollections
19141918.eu.&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=http://www.europeanacollections
19141918.eu/]andBritishLibrarysFlickraccount
[https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?
www.flickr.com.photos.britishlibrary&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=https://www.flickr.
com/photos/britishlibrary].

WhatisavailableinourReadingRooms?
RussianandEastEuropeanmaterialisdistributedacrosstheLibrarys
collectionsandcanlargelybefoundusingExploretheBritishLibrary
[http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.dojsessionid=C16FF4BF
B020AB3369503D0BA832A98F?
dscnt=1&dstmp=1441720381304&vid=BLVU1&fromLogin=true]andSearchOur
Catalogue:ArchivesandManuscripts
[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?
vid=IAMS_VU2].EnterkeywordsortitlesinCyrillicwhensearchingforpre1975
publications(seeHowtosearchforCyrillicitems[http://www.bl.uk/help/search
forcyrillicitems]).
Someprintcataloguesremainessentialreferencesources:
AunioncatalogueofCyrillicmanuscriptsinBritishandIrishcollections,
compiledbyRalphCleminson.London:SchoolofSlavonicandEastEuropean
Studies,UniversityofLondon,1988.
Cyrillicbooksprintedbefore1701inBritishandIrishcollections:aunion
catalogue,compiledbyRalphCleminson,ChristineThomas,Dilyana
Radoslavova,AndrejVoznesenskij.London:TheBritshLibrary,2000.
RussianandChurchSlavonicbooks17011800inUnitedKingdomlibraries:a
listwithbibliographicalreferences,locations,notesandindices,compiledby
C.L.Drage.London,1984.
Navickiene,AusraandJanetZmroczek.LietuviskuknygurinkinysBritu
bibliotekoje(TheLithuanianbookcollectionintheBritishLibrary),inKnygotyra
1998and1997

Whatisavailableinotherorganisations?
OutsidetheBritishLibrarytherearevariousothersourcesavailableonline,
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including:
[https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?
www.rsl.ru.ru.s2.s101&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=http://www.rsl.ru/ru/s2/s101/]Digitalresources
providedbytheRussianStateLibrarydigitalcollection.Mainlyopenaccessandfree.
[https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?
primo.nlr.ru.primo_library.libweb.action.search.do&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=http://primo.nlr.ru/pri
mo_library/libweb/action/search.do]TheNationalLibraryofRussiadigitalcollection.Mainly
chargedresource,theBritishLibraryhasnoaccessseveraldatabasesarefree.
[https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?
www.spsl.nsc.ru.win.nelbib.index
new1.html&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=http://www.spsl.nsc.ru/win/nelbib/indexnew1.html]The
StatePublicLibraryforScienceandTechnologyoftheSiberianbranchoftheRussianAcademy
ofSciencesdigitalcollection.Freeresource.
[https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?
elib.shpl.ru.ru.nodes.9347elektronnayabiblioteka
gpib&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/9347elektronnayabibliotekagpib]
TheStateHistoricalPublicLibrarydigitalcollection.Freeresource

[https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?www.irbisnbuv.gov.ua.cgi
bin.irbis_ir.cgiirbis_64.exe&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=http://www.irbisnbuv.gov.ua/cgi
bin/irbis_ir/cgiirbis_64.exe?C21COM=F&I21DBN=NAV&P21DBN=ELIB&Z21ID=]TheNational
LibraryofUkrainedigitalcollection.

[https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?sites.utoronto.ca.elul.main
ukr.html&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=http://sites.utoronto.ca/elul/MainUkr.html]Freeresource.
eLIBRARY.RU
[https://uk.sitestat.com/bl/subjectsandservices/s?
elibrary.ru.defaultx.asp&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=http://elibrary.ru/defaultx.asp]containsca.
4,000Russianscholarlyandscientificjournalsincludingover2,500openaccesstitles.

Relatedguides
RussianandSovietpostersandpostcards
[http://www.bl.uk/collectionguides/russianandsoviet
postersandpostcards]
RussianandSovietpostersandpostcardsfromthe20thcentury

Russian,UkrainianandBelarusianperformingarts
collections[http://www.bl.uk/collectionguides/russian
ukrainianbelarusianperformingarts]
WehaveanextensivecollectionofprintandelectronicmaterialtosupportresearchinFilmand
PerformingArtsStudies

Polish,Hungarian,CzechandSlovakcollections
[http://www.bl.uk/collectionguides/polishhungarianczech
andslovak]
OneoftheleadingresearchcollectionsintheworldforthestudyofCentralEurope

SouthEastEuropeancollections
[http://www.bl.uk/collectionguides/southeasteuropean
collections]
WehaveanextensivecollectionoflibraryandarchivalmaterialforthestudyofSouthEast
Europe
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TheTyrkovaWilliamsCollection
[http://www.bl.uk/collectionguides/tyrkovawilliams
collection]
AcollectionoflettersandpapersofHaroldWhitmoreWilliamsandAriadnaVladimirovna,ne
Tyrkova.

Russianstatisticalpublications
[http://www.bl.uk/collectionguides/russianstatistical
publications]
Acomprehensivecollectionofstatisticalpublicationsfromallovertheworld,includingRussia

Russianavantgardecollections
[http://www.bl.uk/collectionguides/russianavantgarde
collections]
Anextensivecollectionofavantgardebooksoftheearly20thcentury

Subjects
Slavonicstudies[http://www.bl.uk/subjects/slavonic
studies]
ResourcesforthestudyofSlavoniccountriespastandpresent

Howtoguides
Searchforresourcesinmicroforms
[http://www.bl.uk/help/searchmicroforms]
Howtosearchforresourcesinmicroforms

SearchforCyrillicitemsinthecatalogue
[http://www.bl.uk/help/searchforcyrillicitems]
HowtosearchforCyrillicitemsinthecatalogue

HowtogetaReaderPassifyouareUnder18
[http://www.bl.uk/help/howtogetareaderpassifunder18]
Howtoapplyforanunder18ReaderPass
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