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Founded 1839. S. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library (later National Library of Russia) was founded 1795 by Empress Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg. 14. S. 2 million. Founded 1892. 6. S. 5 million. Founded 1867. S. university library, after the libraries at Harvard and Yale universities. 16. S. Founded 1919. 8 million. 7. S. 10 million. Founded 1868. 17. University of Beijing Library (Peking Daxue Tushugan). Founded 1902. 8 million books. S. after the State University of New York (SUNY) and City University of New York (CUNY).
3. Bridgetown Public Library, Barbados. 1847. K. Public Library Act by issuing a special 50 pence coin. S. , issued two special commemorative coins. Both of the coins are honoring the Library of Congress. S. One side of the coin shows the hand of Minerva raising the torch of learning over the dome of the Jefferson Building. S. coin of the millennium. S. was the first public library to be featured on a postage stamp, issued in 1920. S. stamp in April 1981, designed by Bradbury Thompson and based on a 1898 photograph of the Thomas Jefferson Building.
Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Kiev (Natsional’na Biblioteka Ukraïny). 13 million. Founded 1918. 8. National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg (Rossiiskaya Natsionalnaya Biblioteka). E. Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library. 1 million. 9. National Library of Canada, Ottawa (Bibliothèque Nationale du Canada). Founded 1953. The National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg is the third largest in Russia after the Russian State Library in Moscow and the Russian Academy of Sciences Library in St.