the library, that is, the one that everyone could visit, was literally opened by the roman, asinius poleoni’ll tell you right now how librarianship developed in our lands. the first belarusian library was created in the 11th century in the polotsk st. sophia cathedral and euphrasinia of polotsk played a key role in this. in this connection , historians rightly call her the first woman librarian in russia. however, book the collection that the educator collected was destroyed during the levon war. the second significant library for our lands appeared in the 18th century in the zelvinsky district, a collection of books was collected by lev sopega. however, in 1831 the library was moved to st. petersburg. but a year before that, he also opened it in the grodno region. the first belarusian public library, and several decades later the first reading room appeared in it. this library, by the way, still operates to this day, and since 1957 has been named after the first belarusian academician evimiy karsky. another library that still exists is the pushkin library. in terms of the volume of funds,