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<\/p>\nVernadskyi National Library of Ukraine (NBUV) is the main intellectual and scientific information center of the country. The NBUV team are unique specialists and scientific researchers. They write dissertations, possess rare restoration skills, work with primary sources, and provide state-of-the-art digital services, developing electronic archives for online readers around the world.<\/p>\n
Despite their high qualifications and academic degrees, librarians’ salaries are low. According to the State Statistics Service, in 2025, librarians and museum workers received an average of only UAH 13,500 per month. In the main scientific library of the country, the salary of an employee is even lower than in ordinary city libraries.<\/p>\n
During the adoption of the state budget for 2026, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine allocated additional funding for the National Library of Ukraine named after V.I. Vernadskyi and Lviv National Scientific Library named after Vasyl Stefanyk. People’s deputy of Ukraine, head of the subcommittee on cultural policy, Mykola Kniazhytskyi talked with library employees and noted: “We need systemic solutions regarding the payment of labor to people who continue to work in libraries despite all circumstances. They stay because of their vocation.”<\/p>\n
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Interesting facts:<\/p>\n
The National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadsky is among the TOP-10 largest national book collections.<\/p>\n
August 2, 1918 –<\/em> the official foundation date of the library. On this day, hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky signed the law “On the establishment of the Fund of the National Library of the Ukrainian State” approved by the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian State.<\/p>\n NBUV publishes up to 40 titles of fundamental scientific works annually.<\/p>\n The funds have about 15.8 million storage units.<\/p>\n In the giant book store, archiving is thought out so that books can quickly reach the reading rooms with the help of internal elevators and conveyors.<\/p>\n The interior of the library is decorated with a unique monumental canvas with an area of \u200b\u200b360 square metres, made in the technique of wax painting “Pain of the Earth”. The authors of this philosophical work, Volodymyr Pryadka and Volodymyr Pasivenko, received the Shevchenko Prize in 1998.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine (NBUV) is the main intellectual and scientific information center of the country. The NBUV team are unique specialists and scientific researchers. They write dissertations, possess rare restoration skills, work with primary sources, and provide state-of-the-art digital services, developing electronic archives for online readers around the world. Photo by Roman Malenkov, from the website Ukraine incognita.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,47,48],"class_list":["post-6172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-projects"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n