Central Library;
� Gorky Central Children�s Library;
� Serafimovich Library (The oldest library of city);
� And also: Gaydar Library, Honchar Library, Hrushevsky Library, Krupskaya Library, Kuprin Library, Lesya Ukrainka Library, Marshak Library, Morozov Library, Novikov-Priboy Library, Pushkin Library, Svetlov Library, Turgenev Library, Franko Library, Chekhov Library, Chukovsky Library, the libraries of industrial enterprises, establishments and the organisations of city.
In the environs of city on the shore of Sea of Azov the monument of archaeology is opened neolithic burial ground of end of the third millennium AD. During excavations here over 120 skeletons were discovered. Near them stone and bone instruments and beads are found, shell-works the shellfishes, teeth of animal.
Art & literature
Creative organisations of artists, union of journalists of Mariupol, the literary union �Azovye� (from a 1924, about 100 members) and others. Works of Mariupol poets and writers: N. Berilov, A. Belous, G. Moroz, A. Shapurmi, A. Savchenko, V. Kior, N. Harakoz, L. Kiryakov, L. Belozerova, P. Bessonov, A. Zaruba are written in the Russian, Ukrainian, Greek languages. Presently 10 members of National Union of writers of Ukraine live in a city.
Media & entertainment
More than 20 local newspapers work mostly Russian language based, including:
� �Priazovsky Rabochy� (�Priazovsky worker�)
� �Mariupolskaya Zhizn� (�Mariupol life�)
� �Mariupolskaya Nedelya� (�Mariupol week�)
� �Ilyichevets�
� �Azovstalets�
� �Azovsky Moryak� (�Azov Seaman�)
� �Azovsky Mashinostroitel� (�Azov Machine-builder�) etc.
12 wireless stations, 7 regional television companies and
