Abstract
The history of professional library education is closely connected with the name of the first director of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture Vasily Adamovich Zelenko (1878–1957). The article clarifies a number of biographical information about the social origin of his family, education, and professional activity before 1917. The facts of V. A. Zelenko’s participation in the revolutionary movement (1905–1906) are revealed. The pages of scientific and pedagogical activity of V. A. Zelenko have been supplemented. Zelenko and his cooperation with prominent figures of public education of the Russian Empire, interpersonal ties with members of the Bolshevik Party, which in the revolutionary years became an important factor in the foundation of the Petrograd Institute of Extracurricular Education.
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