Director General of the Russian National Library Vladimir Gronsky has died

Director General of the Russian National Library (RNL) Vladimir Gronsky died at the age of 70, reports TASS with reference to RNB. As reported by the St. Petersburg edition “Rotunda”in November, Mr. Gronsky was admitted to intensive care due to heart problems.

Vladimir Gronsky was born on December 31, 1952 in Kronstadt. In 1991, he became one of the founders of the Nevskoe Vremya newspaper and served as its deputy editor-in-chief. From 1996 to 2001, he served as editor-in-chief of Evening Petersburg.

In February 2002, Mr. Gronsky was appointed director of public relations at the brewery named after. Stepan Razin. In March 2005, he was appointed general director of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. A year later he was dismissed.

From 2006 to 2012, Vladimir Gronsky, as General Director of the Information and Publishing Center of the Government of St. Petersburg “Petrocenter” OJSC, oversaw the publication of the newspaper “Petersburg Diary”. In 2008, he headed the PR campaign for the construction of the 300-meter Okhta Center skyscraper. The project was never implemented. In May 2013, Mr. Gronsky was appointed director of the Suvorov Museum. On January 21, 2021, he was appointed general director of the National Library of Russia.

Erdni Kagaltynov