National Union of Bibliophiles
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| Formation | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Type | Non-governmental organization |
| Location | |
| Membership | 100 (approx.) |
Activities | Research & publications, lectures & events, exhibitions |
Head of the Partnership Board | Mikhail Seslavinsky |
Executive Director | Igor Bykov |
Executive Secretary | Ludmila Larionova |
| Website | http://nsb-bibliophile.ru/ |
The National Union of Bibliophiles (NUB), full name Non-Commercial Partnership “The National Union of Bibliophiles” (Russian: Некоммерческое партнерство “Национальный союз библиофилов”), is a public organisation, an association of bibliophiles of the Russian Federation. It was formed as legal entity in 2010.
NUB’s history starts in 1990, when the Organisation of Russian Bibliophiles, ORB (Russian: Организация российских библиофилов, ОРБ) was chartered, which had united on an informal basis around 100 lovers of antique rare books. A successful 20-years period of the life of ORB (it organised more than 10 exhibitions and issued over 200 printed works) was finalized in 2010. A need for substantial changes in the structure and activities of the organisation was the key driver for the bibliophiles’ decision to set up a new association in the form of a legal entity – the Non-Commercial Partnership “The National Union of Bibliophiles”, which effectively has become a successor to the Organisation of Russian Bibliophiles. The founders’ meeting of NUB was held on 22 October 2010 in Moscow at the State Literature Museum.[1]
On 28 January 2011 the first general participants meeting of NUB was held in Moscow, where the Partnership Board comprising five members was formed by secret ballot. A prominent Moscow bibliophile and researcher in book culture, Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Mikhail Vadimovich Seslavinsky was elected Head of the Partnership Board.[2][3]
Membership
Currently there are about 100 members in NUB. New candidates may be admitted to membership in the partnership once a year by the general meeting of participants of NUB, provided that each candidate need to obtain and present three reference letters from the members of NUB and further, in order to be eligible for the membership, must satisfy one of the following criteria:
- have its own collection of books of bibliophile type;
- have not less than 10 research works (own publications) in book research sphere;
- have not less than 5-year experience of work in the antiquarian and bibliopole trade.[4]
Among the members of NUB there are prominent scientists, journalists and writers including Pavel Gusev - Chief Editor of newspaper “Moskovsky komsomolets” (Russian: Московский комсомолец) and Head of Moscow Union of Journalists, Alexander Sigov, - Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, Konstantin Ernst – producer, Director General of the Channel One (Russian: Первый канал), Villy Petritsky – culturologist, one of the patriarchs of Russian bibliophilia, Lev Mnukhin – researcher of Marina Tsvetaeva’s work and history of Russian emigration, Yuri Rostovtsev - Chief Editor of the monthly “Studenchesky meridian” (“Student meridian”) (Russian: Студенческий меридиан), Olga Tarakanova – professor, author of the only Russian textbook “Antiquarian book”, Mikhail Afanasyev – director of the State Historical Public Library of Russia and others. They are all united by the passion for collecting and research of rare books.
