The Russian National Library

[Slivkin, Yevgeniy A.]

Dear Colleagues,

May be those of you who permanently live in the USA or Western Europe, but have dual citizenship and use Russian passports to enter the country of your birth (which is my case) could answer my question.
I need to do research at the Russian National Library in Saint-Petersburg this summer. The library official website states that in order to obtain a library card citizens of Russia have to produce "pasport novogo obraztsa s otmetkoi o registratsii po mestu zhitel'stva v Rossiiskoi Federatsii; ili pasport i spravku o registratsii po mestu prebyvaniia, vydannuiu organami vnutrennikh del". It seems to me that I am going to fall into a legal limbo since there is no "registratsii po mestu zhitel'stva" in my Russian "inostrannyi pasport". In Saint-Petersburg I am staying in a friend's apartment. Have anyone of you been in this situation? I will be grateful for any suggestions and advice.

Thank you very much.

Yevgeny Slivkin, Ph.D.
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
University of Oklahoma

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