The Polish collection in the Rare Books’ Department of the Samara Regional Universal Scientific Library

Abstract

The article contains short description of Polish and Polish Diaspora’s collections stored in the Rare Books Department of the Samara Regional Universal Scientific Library. The collection consists of more than 800 prints published on the territory of Poland, Russia, Byelorussia between the 17th and mid of the 20th centuries. The collections’ items came both from private and institutional book collections (i.a. from Lviv). Large portion of the collection belonged to the Poles living in the Samara region up to  the 1917 revolution and in first decades of the Soviet regime.