Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library main entrance

Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library () is one of the three national Libraries in

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. Located in

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, its focus is on electronic collections on all topics Russian, not just the life of its namesake. Established in May 2009 by then-president

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, it was named in honour of former president

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

. Unlike other Russian national libraries, which operate under the authority of

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, it is under the

Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation (russian: Управление делами президента Российской Федерации (Управделами президента)) is a federal executive body (federal a ...

. In November 2014, it announced its intention to start an online encyclopedia, which it dubbed an alternative to

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. In a statement, the Library said that Wikipedia "...is unable to give detailed and trustworthy information about Russia’s regions and the life of the country."Maistrovich, Tatiana. “Typology of Electronic Libraries.” ''Slavic & East European Information Resources'' 15, no. 4 (2014): 240–46.

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Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library website
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