The New Building of the Library is a modern complex decorated with marble and granite, with a lot of light windows on the ceeling dome. This construction was designed by the city's famous architects Vladimir Scherbin and Lydia Warschawskaya and built in 1986. In the composition of the library, the theme of the rotunda is the leitmotif. An annular colonnade forms a peculiar round lobby in the open air. The entrance to this outdoor lobby is marked with two granite spheres in the traditional Petersburg style.
In the front of the building, there are 6 fountains: granite cups not only beautify the yard but also provide cooling water for the air conditioning system. A composition of 10 allegorical sculptures adorn the round facade of the New Building of the National Library of Russia. All figures were designed and made of electro deposited copper by the sculptors Boris Svinjin and Alexander Mursin. Among them, we can recognize The Religion, The Justice, The Theatre, The Music, The Philosophy, The Medicine, The Achitecture, The Mechanics, The Aeronautics, The Viniculture.
The New Building of the library is one of the biggest in Europe. It has total square footage reaching 63.000 sq. meters and can accommodate 2000 readers at one time. 16 light reading rooms contain a wide range of literature in every sphere of knowledge. Now the National Library of Russia houses about 40 million items.
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Portal to another planet based in the Turkey. So inspired by this landscapes. Want to draw
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Rainbow, Saint-Petersburg
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