Asian Museum - Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences: guide In-t of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Asian Museum) ; review. Red. and . F. Popova . - M. : Eastern Literature Publishing, 2018. — 881 s. : il. — ISBN 978-5-9907945-9-7 . The book is devoted to the history of creations and the description of the collection of the Institute of Oriental Hands RAS , is a guide but the funds of the Institute, includes articles about his treasures and information about people, worked in the Asian Museum - Institute of Oriental Studies in Leningrad - Institute of Oriental Handicrafts of the Russian Academy of Sciences or studied the monuments of the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) collection of Oriental handicrafts . This collection is currently the largest in Russia and one of the most significant collections of Oriental armadillos in the world, next to which you can put only the collections of the British Library and the National Library of France. The IVR RAS collection contains more than 115 thousand . Handicrafts and old printed books in 65 living and ancient Eastern languages, including fine illustrated editions, which are monuments of world culture