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More than 2,500 Rare and Old-Print Documents of the National Library of Belarus are Available Online

More than 2,500 Rare and Old-Print Documents of the National Library of Belarus are Available Online
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You can read digital copies of rare and old-print documents stored in the National Library of Belarus remotely.

Use the E-Catalogue on the Library portal to search and view publications. Documents with a digital copy are marked with an "E-document" link. To speed up a download, multi-page documents are segmented.

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The editions of Francysk Skaryna, Lavrenty Zizany, Symeon Polotsky, Pyotr Mstislavets are among them. There is a considerable amount of book collections of the 16th and 17th centuries, published in Vilna, Supraśl, Grodno, Kiev.

Users have the opportunity to see unique books by famous Belarusian authors - Maxim Goretsky, Alaiza Pashkevich Yakub Kolas, Yanka Kupala, printed in the early 20th century. Among them, a collection of poetry “Vyanyok” is of great importance. Its special value is in the dedicatory inscription made by Maksim Bahdanovič

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A new project of the National Library of Belarus is dedicated to the Great Patriotic War – "Reading newspaper lines with your heart. On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders."
Every week from January to August 2024, the portal of the National Library publishes materials from newspapers of Soviet Belarus in 1944, reflecting the chronicle of news and events of that time.

Reading newspaper lines with your heart. To the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders