Enthusiast bibliographer Vladimir I. Charnolusky and his projects (following the archival sources)
The first in the series article on the multifarious activities of Vladimir Ivanovich Charnolusky (1864-1941), outstanding though forgotten Russian bibliographer, public figure and pedagogue. His professional career (before the October Revolution and during the Soviet era) is reviewed, in particular his service for the People’s Commissariat of Education and V. I. Lenin State Library of the USSR. For the first time, data on the Russian State Library for People’s Education existing back in 1920ies, the project of All-Union Information and Bibliographic Bureau of the USSR Central Executive Committee Academic Committee are presented.