More than one million books were decommissioned in the libraries of the Mykolaiv region in two years
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- Yuliia Tkach
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13:13, 21 May, 2024
Russian-language books. Photo: 18000.com.uaIn 2022 and 2023, the libraries of the Mykolaiv region removed 1 million 27 thousand books. 714 thousand of them were Russian-speaking.
This is evidenced by the data provided by the National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise in response to Chitomo's information request.
In 2022, regional libraries checked out 355,000 books, of which 274 were in Russian, and in 2023 — 672,000, of which 440,000 were in Russian.
In total, more than 26 million copies of books were written off in Ukraine during this period. 66% were Russian-speaking. In 2022, 12 million 971 thousand books were removed from the libraries of Ukraine, in 2023 — 13 million 165 thousand.
In 2022, the largest number of books were written off in the Poltava region: more than 2 million in two years.
In second place is the Dnipropetrovsk region: almost one and a half million.
Books written off from the libraries of Ukraine in 2023. Photo: Chitomo
Books written off from the libraries of Ukraine in 2022. Photo: ChitomoThe least amount of book stocks was changed in the regions that were or are under temporary Russian occupation: in Luhansk region, no books were written off in 2022 and 2023, in Donetsk region, 75 and 176 thousand copies were written off, respectively. In 2023, 108,000 books were written off in Kherson region, there are no data for 2022.
It should be noted that the head of the Department of Culture, Nationalities and Religions of the Mykolaiv Oblast, Olena Buberenko, reported that in 2023, 60,000 books written in Russian were removed from libraries in the Mykolaiv region.
«Book» law
The bill on banning the import and distribution of books from Russia and Belarus has been waiting for Volodymyr Zelenskyy's signature for more than a year. The President signed it only on June 22.
Prior to this, a flash mob #TimeToSignBookLaw spread on social networks with a call to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to enact the draft law banning Russian book imports, which the parliament adopted a year ago, on June 19.
It is worth noting that before the beginning of the full-scale invasion, books from Russia occupied from 50% to 70% of the Ukrainian market. At present, the large import of Russian books into Ukraine has become impossible.