Nina Averina

Nina Federova Averina is a Soviet, Russian bibliolographer, journalist, local historian and poet. which became a significant contribution to the repertoire of Russian literature. Her work "History of the Perm Book" is actively used by Russian scientists, specialists of regional libraries.

She is a Laureate of the competition of journalistic skill named after Arkady Gaidar.

Biography Averina was born in Ilyinsky, Perm (at that time – Sverdlovsk Oblast) area. From 1966 to 1976 she was in charge of the reading rooms of the A. S. Puschkin Central City Library.

In 1971, Averina graduated from the correspondence department in the Leningrad State Institute of Culture(LSIC),

In September 1976, she moved to the Perm Institute of Culture as a senior laboratory assistant in the library science and bibliography department with the right to lecture. Soon she began to manage the student scientific circle on the history of books and led it for almost the institute. In her time at the Institute she published 53 works.

In absentia she studied at the post-graduate school of the LSIC at the department of bibliology. In 1982 she defended her thesis for the degree of candidate of philological sciences on the topic: "Democratic book business of the Perm province of the period of the raznochin movement (Problems of book publishing, distribution, reading)", in 1985 she received the title of associate professor. In 1996, due to family circumstances, she was forced to retire, and in 2003 she moved to Adelaide, Australia.

Awards and titles Laureate of the A. Gaidar Journalism Competition. Laureate of the All-Russian competition for the best work on bibliology. Winner of the competition of the Perm publishing house "Our Author".