Tatarstan State Counselor, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Regional Revival Foundation and the Good Will Ambassador of UNESCO Mintimer Shaimiev donated about four thousand books from his personal collection to the National Library of Tatarstan. More than two hundred books with autographs of famous state, political and public figures. GlagoL correspondent in Tatarstan Olga Sapozhnikova reports this.
These books are a kind of chronicle of modern Russia, they tell about its formation and development. The characters in these books are extraordinary personalities. Among them are Viktor Chernomyrdin, Evgeny Primakov, Rem Vyakhirev, Alexei Leonov, Chingiz Aitmatov, Yuri Luzhkov, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Anatoly Karpov, Bella Akhmadullina, Zurab Tsereteli, Valery Gergiev, Alexander Kalyagin and many other well-known and respected people in our country.
