Wi-Fi appeared in the S. G. Chavine National Library

2026: Secure Wi-Fi Networking

"Дом.ру Business" by order of the National Library named after S. G. Chavain of the Republic of Mari El implemented the connection of a secure wireless Wi-Fi network. The operator announced this on February 17, 2026.

In the central building of the library, specialists have installed two professional access points that provide visitors with guest Wi-Fi on an area of ​ ​ 200 sq.m. at speeds up to 100 Mbps.

Guests can comfortably work with both texts and video materials, electronic catalogs of library systems, information resources of the library. The created network allows readers to effectively combine traditional and digital work formats: study print publications, while checking online sources, participate in online educational programs, or work on scientific projects in a comfortable library environment on their laptops or tablets.

If necessary, employees can quickly connect from mobile devices to internal information resources and electronic catalogs, which will simplify interaction with readers, speed up request processing and ensure mobility when working with funds.

The availability of Wi-Fi also provides the best conditions for organizing the work of children's circles, clubs and other associations, scientific and practical events of the interregional and all-Russian levels, organized by the library.

The National Library named after S. G. Chavain - the center of information and documentation in Mari E-It is a library with funds of over 1.23 million documents, including books in the Mari language - about 37 thousand, providing users with the most complete universal collection of documents on various media. The number of library users is 30 thousand per year, more than 600 thousand documents are issued on request, the number of visits is about 150 thousand, calls via the Internet - over 200 thousand.

Digitalization of the library space is an integral part of modern cultural policy. Public Wi-Fi attracts schoolchildren, students, and also makes the library a truly open intellectual center where everyone can simultaneously work with print funds and digital resources, "said Irina Shcheglova, director of the library.

Дом.ру Business implements a Wi-Fi wireless network based on the Wi-Fi for Business service. The service includes the organization of a telecommunications infrastructure, content filtering in accordance with the law, access to a digital platform with the ability to monitor data and configure a user authorization scenario. The service is controlled from a personal account, with which you can configure the placement of information materials on the connection start page, collect statistics about visitors.

Special attention is paid to security: the network meets the requirements of personal data protection. The service provides for convenient ways to authorize guests by phone number through a call or SMS message, through Public services or social networks - this is a condition for mandatory identification of users in public Internet networks, which also meets the requirements of the current legislation.

The developed telecom infrastructure allowed us to quickly deploy guest Wi-Fi zones in the National Library, guarantee wireless communication with high channel bandwidth. Now visitors can work freely, study, communicate online in a comfortable environment of one of the main cultural spaces of the republic, - said Elena Katkova, director of the b2b interregional branch of the Middle Volga Region of ER-Telecom Holding JSC (TM Дом.ру Business).