How to find us

RSL departments and services are located at five different addresses. Please look for the department (s) you need as listed below.

Moscow, Vozdvizhenka, 3/5
(nearest tube stations: 'Arbatskaya', 'Aleksandrovsky Sad', 'Borovitskaya', 'Biblioteka Imeni Lenina')

• Director’s Office
• Registration Office (Entrance 2)
• The following reading rooms
  • the general reading room
  • the digital reading room accessing the stocks of 'Digital Leninka' (digitized copies, e-documents and web sources)
  • the Central Inquiry Service of the Library (Department of Bibliography, Reference and Information)
  • Specialized reading rooms
  • The Museum of Books
  • The Central Catalogue Service of RLS, including the Subject Catalogue and E-catalogue

Moscow, Vozdvizhenka str., 3/5, str. 1 ('Dom Pashkova')
(nearest tube stations: 'Arbatskaya', 'Aleksandrovsky Sad', 'Borovitskaya', 'Biblioteka Imeni Lenina')

• Manuscript reading rooms
• Music reading rooms

Moscow, Vozdvizhenka str., 1
(nearest tube stations: Arbatskaya, Aleksandrovsky Sad, Borovitskaya, Biblioteka Imeni Lenina)

Reading rooms for Library Studies, Bibliography Studies and Book Studies.

Moscow, Mokhovaya, 6-8
(nearest tube stations: Arbatskaya, Aleksandrovsky Sad, Borovitskaya, Biblioteka Imeni Lenina

• The Centre of Oriental Literature

Moscow region, Khimky, Bibliotechnaya str., 15
(by bus: nearest tube station 'Rechnoy Vokzal', bus 344 or 368 to 'Bibliotechnaya Ulitsa' bus stop
by train: from Leningradskiy Central Station to Levoberezhnaya)

• Reading rooms for Dissertations
• Reading rooms for Newspapers