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Culture and Enlightenment: the Library
Want to get your hands on a real paper book that you cannot find online? You have come to the right place!
The IKBFU Cultural and Educational Centre is a complex of reading rooms and workspaces. Here you can find print books, newspapers, journals, electronic publications, abstracts, scientometric databases, and even audio and video materials.

Students and staff have access to the university's educational information server, databases, resources, and programmes used in the academic process, the library's electronic catalogues, electronic publication collections (audiovisual and methodological materials), and reference and search systems including "Consultant Plus" (Russia's leading legal reference system) and others.
  • 330 000
    print volumes
  • 10
    electronic library systems
  • 5
    reading rooms
Reading Room Locations
  • Reading Room of Institute
    of Natural Sciences
    +7 (4012) 59-55-95, ext. 7121
    9:00–17:30 (Mon — Thu)
    9:00–16:30 (Fri)
    Break 13:00–13:30
    2 Universitetskaya Street, Room 126

    Literature on medicine, natural sciences, and engineering; fiction and popular science literature; a collection of dissertations and abstracts; Russian periodicals

    Coworking space — 35 seats, 10 computers
    Copy centre services (printing / copying / scanning)
  • Art Library of the College of Engineering and Construction
    +7 (4012) 59-55-95, ext. 7118
    9:00–17:30 (Mon — Thu)
    9:00–16:30 (Fri)
    Break 13:00–13:30
    2 Zoologicheskaya Street, Room 210

    Literature on art, secondary school subjects (Years 10–11), and fields of study offered at the College; fiction and popular science literature

    Coworking space — 40 seats, 10 computers
    Copy centre services (printing / copying / scanning / binding)
  • Reading Room of the Institute
    of Mathematics and Information Technology
    +7 (4012) 59-55-95, ext. 7113
    9:00–17:30 (Mon — Thu)
    9:00–16:30 (Fri)
    Break 13:00–13:30
    14 Nevskogo Street, Room 202

    Literature on physics, mathematics, electronics, radio engineering, and telecommunications

    Coworking space — 40 seats, 6 computers
    Copy centre services (printing / copying / scanning)
  • Reading Room of the Institute
    of Russian Philology
    and Media Technology
    +7 (4012) 59-55-95, ext. 7114
    9:00–17:30 (Mon — Thu)
    9:00–16:30 (Fri)
    Break 13:00–13:30
    56 Chernyshevskogo Street,
    Room 236

    Literature on social sciences and humanities, pedagogy, psychology, and linguistics

    Coworking space — 35 seats, 10 computers
    Copy centre services (printing / copying / scanning)
  • Reading Room
    of the Institute of Law
    +7 (4012) 59-55-95, ext. 7117
    9:00–17:30 (Mon — Thu)
    9:00–16:30 (Fri)
    Break 13:00–13:30
    6 Frunze Street, Room 412

    Literature on law

    Coworking space — 50 seats, 10 computers
    Copy centre services (printing / copying / scanning)
  • Academic and Fiction
    Literature Section
    +7 (4012) 59-55-95, ext. 7141
    9:00–17:30 (Mon — Thu)
    9:00–16:30 (Fri)
    Break 13:00–13:30
    2 Universitetskaya Street, Room 113

    Closed Collection

    Readers may borrow textbooks, books, and periodicals for up to one month

    Coworking space — 10 seats
  • Rare Books Room
    +7 (4012) 59-55-95, ext. 7170
    9:00–17:30 (Mon — Thu)
    9:00–16:30 (Fri)
    Break 13:00–13:30
    2a Universitetskaya Street,
    Room 115a

    Closed Collection

    Literature in Russian and foreign languages up to 1945; the Wallenrodt Library collection

    A quiet reading room with 35 seats, a conference room, and the Wallenrodt Library study
  • Literary Courtyard
    2 Universitetskaya Street

    An inner courtyard with German sculptures, tables, and chairs — a perfect spot to sit and take a break between classes during the warmer months. A book donation and exchange shelf is also available in summer.
About the Library
Workstations are equipped with computers and laptops with internet access. You can also make copies, scan, or print the pages you need.

Students may use the Antiplagiat plagiarism detection system.

To register with the Antiplagiat system, please send a request from your corporate email address (@kantiana.ru or @stud.kantiana.ru) to eafilippova@kantiana.ru, stating your full name.

Electronic library systems (resources containing electronic versions of academic, methodological, and other literature) are available here. Registration from the university network is required (for example, via a computer in a reading room).

P.S. And of course, the library is a great place to meet serious and ambitious young people :)