# Happy Birthday, NLR! > 27 May is the National Library of Russia’s birthday. Sharing a video presentation created for IGeLU 2016: the city, its history, and inspiration in a single film. - Canonical page: https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/05/nlr-birthday/ - Page language: English - Published: 2024-05-27 - Tags: Library, Conference, Anniversary - Russian version: https://shorin.me/blog/2024/05/nlr-birthday/index.md 27 May is not only St Petersburg’s City Day. 27 May 1795 marks the birth of the National Library of Russia: on that day, Empress Catherine II approved by imperial decree the plans to construct the Imperial Public Library building. On 27 May 1995, President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin issued a decree stipulating: “Establish an All-Russian Day of Libraries, to be celebrated on 27 May, aligning the date with the 1795 founding of Russia’s first state public library – the Imperial Public Library, now the National Library of Russia.” In September 2016, I attended the 11th annual international IGeLU conference in Trondheim, Norway, where I presented St Petersburg and the National Library of Russia as the hosts of IGeLU 2017. We created a truly beautiful video for that presentation. It is fairly long because it consists of three parts: - A presentation of St Petersburg; - A presentation of the National Library of Russia’s main building at the intersection of Nevsky Prospect and Sadovaya Street; - A presentation of the National Library of Russia’s new building on Moskovsky Prospect. I strongly recommend watching the entire [video](https://youtu.be/LrcTCmtmnck?si=0q-np8VzQRc9R4nI) – with the sound on, of course. Enjoy! Happy birthday, St Petersburg! Happy birthday, NLR! ## Media ## Original posts - LinkedIn: