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About the Fundamental Library of the S.M. Kirov.

LIBRARIES OF THE BALTIC FOR THE SEAFARERS OF THE NAVY

The Baltic Centralized Library System is a municipal library in the very west of Russia. Baltiysk is a city where wonderful people live, serve and work. The Baltiysk library understands very well the importance of educating all categories of readers. I'll tell you about one area of ​​our work: partnership and cooperation with the sailors of the Navy.
The information center and the youth subscription of the Central City Hospital are active participants in the "Libraries of Baltic Seafarers of the Navy" program.

Objectives of the program:

• improving the literacy and general cultural level of the Baltic Fleet sailors
• the formation of high civic, spiritual and moral guidelines and historical self-awareness of this category of readers
• stimulating reading as a prerequisite for the development of a nation
• formation of mechanisms to support and revive interest in reading among naval sailors.

Throughout the 65-year history, librarians came to warships, went to visit sailors with talented writers of the Kaliningrad land. But for the past three years, we have been providing assistance not only in terms of meetings with writers. Now we are organizing libraries on warships.
How did it all begin ... More than two years ago, a young sailor, Andrei Skorobogatov, served under a contract on the patrol ship Yaroslav the Wise. Andrei himself read a lot, but he understood that the book was necessary for his comrades as well. He came to our library with a request to organize a library on the ship. Not just give books to read, but tell, teach, create a real library with an accounting book, readers' forms, etc. Since then, we have been waiting for the guys from the ship as the most dear guests. The population of Baltiysk brings us a large number of books as a gift, and we share these books with the sailors. We know that literature is very necessary and will be read from cover to cover. Andrey transferred the same practice of working with our library to his new duty station - TFR

"Intrepid". They say that the future belongs to new technologies. But the book has its own way, and while guys like Andrey are in a hurry to the library, BOOK has a future. In 2015, there were already several young lieutenants from the Boikiy, Guarding, Savvy, etc. corvettes. came with a request to organize a library on their ships. The staff of the information center of the library put aside interesting books, magazines, hold consultations with young lieutenants on how best to organize the library. We share with them books, library equipment, talk about our work plans. Sailors spend a lot of time at sea. The issue of leisure is very acute. Now no event is complete without our readers in uniform. We hold presentations of books, new exhibitions, literary meetings and virtual tours, contests and quizzes for them. There is hardly a more grateful audience than the conscripts of the Baltic Fleet. Indeed, behind the bustle of military everyday life, there is often not enough interesting, frank, honest conversations about literature, about life, about family, about duty. At our events, they have the opportunity to meet interesting, famous people.
During the Days of Literature in the Kaliningrad Region, we traditionally "land" a "literary landing" on the ships of the Baltic Fleet from the most popular and interesting writers of the region. For such meetings, one hundred or more officers and sailors gather in wardrooms: live communication is interesting and useful not only for listeners-sailors, but also for guests-writers - in the process of communication, fresh ideas for new literary works often appear.
The ships are mainly served by guys from other regions, so special attention is paid to local history literature. From librarians, sailors learn about the history of the region, about the people who glorified the Kaliningrad region. Thus, at the presentation of the book "Not true, a friend does not die" by Kaliningrad authors Yu. Gorin and Yu. Zenkov, accompanied by an electronic presentation, the children were told about the sailors who died in August 2000 on the Kursk submarine. Among the submariners was our fellow countryman - senior lieutenant Alexander Gudkov. Young, eager to live. You can see how the faces of young guys freeze when they listen to the last lines of their contemporaries doomed to death, who remain forever young. This is how real patriotism is born, the readiness to defend the Motherland and its interests ...
Sailors come to the literary hours dedicated to the anniversaries of Russian writers and poets. The literary and musical evening "I am all in the light, accessible to all eyes" is dedicated to the life and work of V. Vysotsky. His poems and songs are topical, modern and, it turns out, often sound with a guitar during the hours of rest in the wardroom. The exposition of the exhibition "Photo Album of the Great War of 1914-1918", literature review, presentation of the digest dedicated to the centenary of the 1914 war. "Unforgotten and great" program, which was received with great interest by the sailors of Baltiysk. IN THE YEAR OF LITERATURE and the 70th anniversary of the GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR, we will invite military sailors to events dedicated to significant dates. They will be participants in the program "Live and Remember" V.G. Belinsky, the program of the Regional Library of Kaliningrad "Read to Remember".

Head of the department for library resources MBUK "BCBS" N.E. Tulchinskaya

M.M. KIRILLOV

FUNDAMENTAL LIBRARY OF THE MILITARY MEDICAL ACADEMY NAMED AFTER S.M. KIROV

This is the only library, at least in Leningrad, with such an official and, at the same time, generally accepted name. This is the scientific and educational library of the Kirov Military Medical Academy, the one on the Pirogovskaya embankment. It is located on the Vyborg side, but its counterpart is the widest water area of ​​the Neva and the Kirovsky (now Troitsky) bridge.
Of course, she has her own big story, and you can read about it in reference books, but I will write about her only what I know about her myself. Memories of the academic library can be dear to thousands of its graduates and employees, as well as to participants in scientific library collections in Leningrad and to all Leningraders. After all, this is the oldest medical library in Russia. The year of its creation is 1798.
In early childhood I lived in Leningrad, my hometown. I visited here in 1945, after the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, and, of course, saw the Neva. And as an adult, and this was in July 1950, I saw the Neva on arrival from the Moscow railway station by tram from Pirogovskaya embankment near Liteiny bridge.
The Neva was so huge, deep and swift that the sight of it overshadowed for a moment all my past and made everything that was to come insignificant. Then I walked along the embankment, to which the entrances of the buildings of various departments and the Fundamental Library of the Academy went out, as evidenced by the tablets on their walls.
Shocked by what I saw on the embankment, I went from there to the headquarters of the Academy, which was located nearby, on the street. Lebedev. Separated from the street by a carved metal lattice, with a high dome, columns and the emblem of the USSR on the pediment, the headquarters was located in the depths of a vast green courtyard, in the center of which a beautiful bust of Sergei Mironovich Kirov towered over a flowerbed.
The paths in the courtyard led to the educational department, where it was announced to me that all applicants would have to pass competitive exams in full, and those who graduated from high school with a medal. It was unexpected, but that was the condition.
It was hot in Leningrad in those days, but the Neva remained cold. Entering the academy turned out to be really more difficult than I thought. Every second applicant had a medal for graduation from school. Therefore, I had to take exams on a general basis.
The first was an examination in literature and the Russian language - an essay. It took place in the large reading room of the Fundamental Library. I was here for the first time. I remember the large windows of the hall overlooking the Neva. Professor Colonel Zaboev supervised the conduct of this exam. This was alarming.
For the essay on the theme "Who lives well in Russia" according to N.A. Nekrasov, I received a grade of "four". For the oral exam in literature, they also put "four" (I could not answer who Margarita from "Faust" was in terms of social status? I said: a philistine, but it turned out - from the clergy). In chemistry - "four". It was already on the verge of failure, since the passing score was 17. The physics exam helped out. In July, I was enrolled in the Academy.
Together with other, the same yesterday's schoolchildren in civilian jackets at the end of August, I went up to the last floor of the hostel on Botkinskaya Street and introduced myself to the head of the course, lieutenant colonel m / s B.P. Polikarpov, an elderly, short, thin officer in a tunic, a sword belt and boots. On his chest was the Order of the Red Star. "A front-line soldier, like our school principal," I thought. With this, my service in the army, as it turned out, began at the age of 43.
Soon, our entire course was receiving textbooks in the Academic Department of the Fundamental Library of the Academy. The entrance to it was from Klinicheskaya Street. It's a common thing: they received textbooks. But an amazing librarian worked here - a young woman Valya, as everyone called her, and everyone at the Academy knew her. Once she saw a reader, she not only remembered him and the books he took, but everything that concerned him, and unerringly recognized him when she met again in the library or on the street. But there were hundreds of listeners to our course and from other courses. Unique librarian.
Gradually, they began to get acquainted with the bibliographic (catalogs) and reading rooms of the library. On the ground of the second floor of the large staircase to the library, there were monuments to the scientists of the Academy who worked here in the 19th century, including N.I. Pirogov, P. Zagorsky and the famous anatomist Buyalsky, on pedestals. The copper of the monuments has brightened from the touch of hands for a hundred years. I tapped on one of what I thought was monoliths. To my surprise, there was a void in him. In others it is the same. It was a discovery for me. Of course, it should have been, but they seemed to be monoliths. This illusion arose from the external significance of the monuments. I already knew that the same illusion sometimes arises when meeting some people. Impressive in appearance, they turn out to be dummies for verification. There was such a time: I was only 17.5 years old, and I knew the world.
Time passed, and in the course of classes we mastered in the library building its neighbors at the entrance from the embankment: an emergency room, a surgical clinic, departments of eye and skin diseases. This is described in detail in the book "My Academy", published by me in 2010.
It was an amazing time, even the hostel of our course was located next to the library, so that its windows overlooked the cruiser Aurora and the Military Medical Museum of that time.
In those years, I had a memorable meeting with my first teacher, Sergei Borisovich Geyro, associate professor of the Department of Faculty Therapy at the Academy.
It was already 1955. The cycle of subordination in therapy began. In our group, it was conducted on the basis of the Department of Faculty Therapy. The teacher was S.B. Geiro. Front-line soldier, colonel m / s, renowned hematologist. He to the greatest extent personified the intelligence, generally characteristic of the teaching staff of the Academy of that time.
Under his leadership, I was leading a serious and difficult patient. He was 50 years old. He suffered from bouts of severe shooting pains in the abdomen, radiating to the spine. In his youth, he suffered syphilis (Wasserman's reaction was positive (+++)). The clinic did not know what was wrong with the patient. I have studied well the course of his suffering. More than once I watched as another pain shaft rolled over his body, leaving him exhausted, pale and yellowed. The inner picture of the disease was more understandable to me than its nature. I drew attention to the consistent coincidence of the timing of pain and anemic crises with the subsequent appearance of hyperbilirubinemia and jaundice. Was the painful attack accompanied by blood loss and hemolysis? In connection with what?
I related my observations to a teacher whom I had tracked down in the reading room of the Fundamental Library. After listening to me, he said that he had made two discoveries today. The first of them concerns the patient, and the second - me: “it seems that another therapist was born today”. A couple of days later, he explained to us, the listeners, that the patient presumably had syphilitic mesoaortitis and dissecting aortic aneurysm. Its delamination was accompanied by blood loss. Soon the patient died with symptoms of slowly developing cardiac tamponade. On the autopsy performed, the aorta was a three-layer wide stocking along its entire length. It became apparent what was unclear during the patient's life. Each new portion of blood stratified the wall of the aorta, accompanied by crises of anemia and jaundice. The disfigured pulsating organ, striking the spine, inflicted severe pain on the patient. All this ended in rupture of the aortic aneurysm with a gradual breakthrough of blood into the pericardium.
S. B. Geiro was the first of the doctors who saw me among many. It should be noted that the clinical training of students was the most important goal and the most effective aspect of training at the Academy of that time. We were taught to think at the patient's bedside, taught to doubt, to prefer the irrational to rational (traditional) thinking. Of course, a base was needed for this.
After graduating from the Academy in 1956, I served for seven years in an assignment in an airborne regiment in Ryazan. There was a citywide library in the city, which I visited while working on my early scientific generalizations. The early library experience came in handy, although, of course, this library was far from the Fundamental Library of the Academy. Perhaps the same silence of the reading room, the rustling of pages and the sleeping heads of tired readers on the tables.
In those years, I visited the Central Medical Library, located in a beautiful mansion on Vosstaniya Square in Moscow, on visits from Ryazan. Rummaged through catalogs. He got acquainted with the then well-known and later became famous scientists-therapists.
In particular, it was here that I collected literature on chronic recurrent migrating thrombophlebitis, which I observed in one of my patients in the clinic of Professor M.S. Vovsi (Moscow Botkin Hospital), where I was then doing an internship. M.S. Vovsi, after listening to me, approved my interpretation of this case.
But this library was somewhat inferior to the Leningrad library. It was somehow accidental and alien to me, and the Fundamental Library was more complete, familiar and, as it were, summarizing both bibliographic searches and my professional growth. It has always been a joy to work in it. But the main thing: very attentive, knowledgeable and intelligent employees, who know well the library's funds, have always worked in it. Unfortunately, I no longer remember their names. They were real Leningraders.
In the late 1950s, I was less likely to visit the academic library. But in 1962 he entered the clinical residency not at the department of Professor N.S. Molchanov.
It was an amazing clinic. My immediate supervisor was then associate professor Evgeny Vladislavovich Gembitsky.
I became attached to this extraordinary person. I liked his speeches at cathedral meetings: (the validity of his own judgments and respectful attitude towards others). It was noticeable that Molchanov himself reckoned with him. It could be assumed that it was he who would inherit all the wealth that was then concentrated in this pulpit.
I often worked with Yevgeny Vladislavovich for a long time in the halls of the Academy's Fundamental Library, marveling at his ability to work. Sometimes we walked along the Neva embankment, near the library. talking about life. In those years, it was especially important for me that someone listened to me. He encouraged our conversations. After meeting with Gembitsky, it became somehow joyful to live. It was thanks to his attention that my clinical, pedagogical and scientific development went especially meaningfully and quickly.
The clinic is a place where mutual enrichment of experience is inevitable. I will cite one case out of many. I was leading a 32-year-old patient, very serious, with severe heart failure, with dense white edema - such that liquid oozed down his legs from the pores so that it could be collected in a test tube. It was believed that he was sick with rheumatism with combined damage to the mitral valve. Yevgeny Vladislavovich also watched it more than once with me. Things were going to a denouement: the phenomena of cardiac asthma were growing, and the drugs used for foxglove and diuretics did not give an effect. In one of the rounds, Evgeny Vladislavovich suggested that against the background of rheumatism, the patient apparently developed amyloidosis, which explained the extreme severity of the edema syndrome.
The patient died. When I went to the section, Evgeny Vladislavovich asked me to specifically remind the dissector about the need for research on amyloidosis. An autopsy revealed a severe stenosis of the mitral valve, enlargement of the left atrium and right heart, a large liver, ascites, edema ... The diagnosis of heart disease was confirmed, and I went up to the department. Leaning against the wall in the corridor, Yevgeny Vladislavovich stood, surrounded by listeners. I cheerfully reported the autopsy results to him. He listened attentively and very seriously and quietly asked: "Have the tissues taken for research on amyloidosis?" To my horror, I had to admit that I had forgotten to inform the prosector about this, especially since he had no doubts about the diagnosis. Gembitsky, somehow in a special way, as if studying, looked at me sadly and, pushing himself off the wall, slowly walked away without saying a word.
Recovering myself, I quickly returned to the dissecting room. The corpse was still lying on the table. I urged the pathologist to return to the examination and take the appropriate tissue samples. For the next 2-3 days I avoided meeting with Gembitsky: I was ashamed of my mistake. It soon became known that histology confirmed the signs of amyloid degeneration not only in the usual organs for this, but also in unusual ones, including the mitral valve. The valve leaflets stuffed with amyloid lumps simulated a heart defect, creating all the conditions for the development of heart failure. And the data for rheumatism ... was not received.
Of course, I told Yevgeny Vladislavovich about this. He, as if nothing had happened between us, immediately shared his assumption about the primary nature of amyloidosis - a rare type of this disease. He said that it is necessary to study the relevant literature and prove it.
After sitting in the Fundamental Library like a damn week, I studied all the literature that was, starting with the works of the late 19th century. I found out that our observation of amyloid heart disease is the only one in the domestic literature. I was so carried away by the search for literary evidence that I could not think of anything else. At that time, I became convinced that a meaningful search gives rise to an amazing performance.
It seemed to me that I had rehabilitated myself before Yevgeny Vladislavovich. But he set the task to report on this rare observation at a meeting of the Leningrad Therapeutic Society, and later send its description to the journal "Cardiology". All this was done, but my requests to co-author these messages were followed by a persistent refusal. It even hurt. Only over the years it became clear to me: he was a Teacher, and for a real Teacher, the student's interests are always higher than his own, and he taught me this generosity for future use.
In the fall of 1966, completing work on my Ph.D. thesis, I often traveled from Saratov, where I worked at that time as a teacher in the department of military field therapy, to Leningrad. In the evenings, Evgeny Vladislavovich and I met in the reading room of the Fundamental Library and consistently worked on the dissertation text: he corrected, and I corrected. He said: "You must become a writer!" I doubted, it seemed to me that I had not even learned to think properly. But he was sure of it. In May 1967, the dissertation was successfully defended.
I have been, and more than once, in the Academic Library and later on my doctoral dissertation. I met there many scientists of that time (professors M. I. Lytkin, V. P. Silvestrov, V. N. Beyer, G. N. Guzhienko) and my classmates (O. I. Koshil, K. A. Sidorov, A. Ya. Kholodny, G.N. Tsybulyak, D.T. Khokhlov and others).
All libraries, regardless of their fame, are united by the ability of a person to concentrate on the book and on himself, the silence of the environment respected by everyone, the sacred rite of knowledge. This also applies to the Lenin Library in Moscow, where I visited when I was still a 9th grade student. On every table in her reading room was a lamp with a green shade. And along the walls are bookcases. And to the library to them. Saltykov-Shchedrin in Leningrad, and in the library of the Saratov Medical Institute on Gorky Street ... Any library is a place for concentrated intellectual growth of a person.
The fundamental library of the Leningrad Medical Academy, known in the world, is one of the oldest in Russia. She is now at least 220 years old. She is an old friend of mine.
My works can also be stored in its funds. The first work ("Chlorides of blood and urine in patients with allergic diseases (bronchial asthma, pneumonia and rheumatism) in children") was published in the Proceedings of the Academy in 1956. Abstracts of candidate and doctoral dissertations ("Disorders of water-salt metabolism in cardiac and pulmonary heart failure" and "Pathology of internal organs in peacetime trauma", 1967 and 1979). The books "Pathology of internal organs in trauma" (co-authored with EV Gembitsky and LM Klyachkin, 1994) and "Therapeutic assistance to earthquake victims" (co-authored with VT Ivashkin and F.I. Komarov, 1995).
I donated several of my books to the Fundamental Library (My Academy, 2009; The Teacher and His Time, 2005; Doctor of the Airborne Regiment, 2010; My Patients, 2013). Sent from Saratov. Their fate is unknown to me.
March 2017, Saratov.

Library of the Military Medical Academy

Address: St. Petersburg, st. Clinical, 6

Telephone: 292-33-10, 292-32-75

The library was founded in 1798, this is the year of the foundation of the Medical and Surgical Academy.

The library was created on the basis of the first public medical library in Russia, founded in 1756 by the director of the Medical and Surgical College P.Z.Kondoidi.

The foundation was formed in accordance with the profile of the Academy as a military medical educational and scientific institution, which determined the uniqueness of its foundation.

The library possesses the rarest, including the first printed editions of European medical literature, one of the most complete collections of Russian medical books and journals of the 18th-20th centuries in the country, and manuscripts of the most prominent representatives of Russian and foreign medicine. She is the sole curator of a number of foreign military medical journals. The library collection contains the first textbooks on medicine in Russian: "Abbreviated Anatomy" by Professor of the Medical and Surgical Academy P.A.Zagorsky, 1802, "General Surgery" - a guide to teaching surgery by I.F.Bush, 1807, "General therapy" by I. Ye. Dyadkovsky, 1836, "Military field medicine" by A. A. Charukovsky, "The art of obedience or the science of a woman's business" by N. M. Maksimovich-Ambodik, 1784 and a rich collection of printed dissertations, including the first dissertation defended at the Academy - Savva Bolshoi, the dissertation of I.P. Pavlov.

Periodicals constitute a significant part of the fund. Among them are the first medical journals published in Russia: "St. Petersburg Medical Bulletin" (1792), "General Journal of Medical Science" (1811-1816), "Military Medical Journal" from 1823 to the present day, etc. ...

The main fund, 1900s

Reading room, 1900s

At present, the library fund is 1,900,000 copies of medical, natural-scientific, military and socio-political literature.

The library subscribes 360 titles of periodicals, including the most important scientific medical journals published in Russia.

The library has access to information resources: Scientific Universal Electronic Library (RUNEB), including full-text scientific medical journals.

Readers of the library have the opportunity to use the full-text educational literature published by the publishing house GEOTAR Media: “Electronic library of a medical university. Student advisor "

In the computer room, an automated search for bibliographic information is carried out in medical databases: "Medlane", "Russian medicine", "Medart", etc., as well as in the electronic catalog of the library.

Main fund

Scientific literature subscription

Reading room

Library structure

Library manager

Rudenko Polina Evgenievna

Tel .: 292-33-10

Acquisition department

Head of department Baskakova Anna Yurievna

Tel .: 292-32-75

Department of cataloging and systematization

Head of Department Zotikova Natalia Yurievna

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Opening hours: Mon.-Fri. 9: 00-17: 30, Sat. Sun. - day off

Department of the main fund

Head of Department Lyakhova Svetlana Evgenievna

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Service department

Head of Department Puchkova Elvira Fedorovna

Scientific literature subscription

Opening hours: Mon.-Fri. 12: 00-19: 00, Sat. 12: 00-17: 00, Sun. - day off

Reading room

Subscription of educational literature

Bibliography department

Head Chuleida Tatiana Kimovna

Opening hours: Mon.-Fri. 12: 00-20: 00, Sat. 12: 00-19: 00, Sun 10: 00-17: 00

Department of reference and information services by electronic resources

Opening hours: Mon.-Fri. 12: 00-19: 00, Sat. 12: 00-17: 00, Sun. - day off

Branch of the library (49 town)

Head of Berezovskaya Marina Vladimirovna

Opening hours: Mon.-Fri. 12: 00-18: 00, Sat. 12: 00-17: 00, Sun. - day off

Club library

Head of the Department Romanova Elena Anatolyevna

Opening hours: Mon.-Fri. 11: 00-18: 00, Sat. Sun. - day off

The reading room of the library is available for doctors and students of medical universities in St. Petersburg.