The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, VNLU (Ukrainian: Національна бібліотека України імені В.І.

The library has the most complete collection of Slavic writing, archives of outstanding world and Ukrainian scientists and cultural persons.

In August 1941 the library was evacuated to Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, where it was housed in the State pedagogical institute.

[5] The holdings of the Vernadsky National Library include large collections of manuscripts,[6] rare printed books and incunabula.

The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine is the world's foremost repository of Jewish folk music recorded on Edison wax cylinders.

Many of these were field recordings made during the Soviet or pre-Soviet era by ethnologists such as Susman Kiselgof, Moisei Beregovsky, and Sofia Magid.

Their Collection of Jewish Musical Folklore (1912–1947) was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2005.

[9] Ivan Kotliarevsky's epic poem version of the Aeneid, by Virgil, is the first piece of literature written in common Ukrainian.