• Digital Library
  The Digital Library contains manuscripts and archive documents; unique prints; early printed and hand painted maps; rare books and other materials.

• Exhibitions
  The NLR welcomes you to the on-line gallery. Here you can find a presentation of several exhibitions held at the library. The exhibitions were organized by the Cartography Department, the Prints Department, the Department, the Asian and African Department, the Russian Book Stocks using the departments’ collections as source material.

• Online Collections
  • Images of Saint-Petersburg (1900 - 1941)
  • Sestroretsk with its environs (1900 - 1917)
    (Suburbs of Saint-Petersburg)
  • Psalter published by Ivan Fedorov, 1570
  • Exploration and Settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East

• 300 years of St Petersburg

The following resources are maintained only in Russian:

• Bibliographies
  • Pedagogics. Education: guide to reference resources
  • Official periodicals
  • Union printed lists of officials of provinces and districts of the Russian Empire (1841 - 1908)
  • The Japanese language. Textbook. Bibliography on the Japanese collections of the Asian and African Department
  • Literary societies and salons in Russia in the 19th century (1828-1993)
  • Theatres of St Petersburg-Leningrad (1861-1975)
  • Publications of the National Library of Russia (1987-1994)
  • Guide to medico-biologic reference resources (1960-1996)
  • Bibliographies published the National Library of Russia for the period from 1991 to 2005: annotated index

• Specialized Dictionaries
  • Socio-economic terms and definitions
  • Religious terms and definitions
  • Pedagogic terms and definitions

• Guides to Internet Resources
  • Internet resources
  • Newspapers from around the world
  • Legal information resources
  • Medicine. Biology
  • Resources in regional studies available on libraries' websites