Moscow city. The building of the State Library of the USSR. Lenin. Library staff at the bookshelves, working with the catalog, lending out books. General view of the reading room. Visitors work at tables. Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books. Books: the manuscript of Giordano Bruno, the works of MV Lomonosov, the first Russian newspapers "Vedomosti", the books of VI Lenin, the first editions of Karl Marx, etc. Hall of microfilms, exhibition of new acquisitions, hall of current periodicals.