Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature

The Margarita Rudomino All-Russian State Library For Foreign Literature, historically known as the All-Union Library of Foreign Literature under the Soviet Union is a special library that focuses primarily on the acquisition of foreign literature and material, it is based in Moscow.

The library was founded by Margarita Ivanovna Rudomino in 1921 in an old building in central Moscow.

[2] It opened as a small Neophilological Library that started with a collection of only 100 books in German, French and English located on the 5th floor of the building.

The library has held approximately 250 lectures and meetings and 200 exhibitions annually.

Nicknamed "the Foreigner", the library has an extensive stock of humanities literature.