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The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine is the largest library in Ukraine. It is the country's main academic library and most important scientific information centre. It is among the world's largest national libraries.
Its main building is located in the Demiivka neighborhood of Kyiv. It was founded on 2 August 1918 by Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi. Three weeks later the library's Provisional Committee was established, headed by the mineralogist Vladimir Vernadsky.
In August 1941 the library was evacuated to Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, where it was housed in the State Pedagogical Institute. In May 1944 the library was relocated back to Kyiv.
The current building was constructed between 1975 and 1989. It has 27 floors and an area of 35,700 square metres (384,000 sq ft). Its roof reaches 76.81 metres (252.0 ft).
The name given to the library has changed multiple times during the 20th century:
National Library of the Ukrainian State (1918);
National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1919);
National Library of Ukraine at the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv (1919–1920);
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National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv (1920–1934);
State Library of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1934–1936);
Library of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1936–1948);
State Public Library of the Ukrainian SSR (1948–1965);
Central Scientific Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1965–1988);
Central Scientific Library named after VI Vernadsky Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1988–1996);
VI Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (since 1996).
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