Named after A.M. Gorky, the oldest library in Ulaanbaatar city was reopened last week. The Maxim Gorky Library first opened in 1946, however, it has been closed for reconstruction since September by order of the General Agency for Specialized Investigation.

The first library in Ulaanbaatar city, the Maxim Gorky Library is currently marking the 80^th anniversary of the death of the famous Soviet writer. The library originally had nearly 3000 books, one reading room with 20 seats and one worker; seventy years on, it has nearly 70,000 books, two reading room and seven workers.

Maxim Gorky (1868-36), is famous for his novels "Mother", his autobiographical trilogy, his play "The Lower Depths" and his poem "The Song of the Stormy Petrel".  He was the father of the school of 'Socialist Realism'. Gorky died under murky circumstances, possibly at Stalin's behest.