Vladimir Zaitsev

Born December 8, 1938 in g. Engels, Saratov region in the family working. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Textile and Light Industry of. SM. Kirov, Ph.D.. He graduated from the Academy of Social Sciences.
Since 1985 - Director of the National Library.
Author of over 60 works on library science, took an active part in the development of federal laws "On Libraries" and "On Obligatory Copy of Documents", adopted by the State Duma in 1994. Initiator of the most important projects and programs that contribute to the consolidation of the professional library of motion - President of Russia Library Association, established in 1994 on his initiative. Member of the Coordinating Bureau of the Library Assembly of Eurasia, Chairman of the Standing Commission of the Library Rossiyskogo creative union of artists.
Thanks activity VN. Zaitsev during his work in the NLR broadened and deepened professional contacts with librarians around the world, . primarily with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), . in which he has been actively involved since 1986,
. Zaitsev VN. - Member of the National Committee of UNESCO's Memory of the World ", the head of the Consortium of European Research Libraries.
VN. Zaitsev - Russia Academician of the Academy of Natural Sciences, International Academy of Ecology, security man and nature, the Academy of inventiveness, a professor of St. Petersburg State University of Culture.
VN. Zaitsev - a member of the Council on the Arts for Presidential.
Honored Worker of Culture of Russia.
Awarded Medal A.S. Pushkin Medal Academician P.L. Kapitza.
He is married and has a daughter, son, grandson.
When asked about his favorite recreational Vladimir always answers: "Work, work and work again". If you happen to pass by late at night sleeping dark buildings of the National Library on the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Sadovaya street, you always see on the second floor of the two luminous windows. This - the director's office. Director works.