Biblioteca Pública Rubén Martínez Villena - La Habana, Cubaa
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The Public Library Rubén Martínez Villena is located on busy Calle Obispo in historic Plaza de Armas in Old Havana, Cuba.
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Location: Cuba
Date Posted: 03/15/2017
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The Place:
The Public Library was created on February 24, 1960 as a specialized library of the Institute of Financial Affairs of the Ministry of Finance with the objective to meet the information needs of students in financial studies and the ministry's own workers.
With the creation of the Library Division, it underwent new changes in its structure in the user control system and information services. In 1985, it was officially designated as the Provincial Library and guiding center of the Public Library System of Havana City.
In the summer of 1998 it reopened its doors at its current location in the Historic Center of Old Havana as a result of the auspices of the Community Autonomous Spanish of Castile and Leon in collaboration with the Office of the Historian of Havana.
The current headquarters, whose facade is harmoniously integrated with the architectural set of the environment, is a comfortable and functional building with spacious areas and reading rooms distributed on four floors, where the user or visitor can access traditional and / or electronic services. (
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The Person:
Rubén Martínez Villena was a Cuban writer and revolutionary leader, born on December 20, 1899 in Alquízar, in the La Habana province.
After contracting tuberculosis, Villena travelled to the United States and the Soviet Union, including to the Caucasus Mountains. When he returned to Cuba in 1932 he was seriously ill. During 1932 and 1933 he organized the general strike that ended Gerardo Machado's government. He died in Havana on June 16, 1934, in La Esperanza Sanatory.
A stamp was issued December 20, 1999 by the Postal Authority in Cuba commemorating him as a revolutionary. (
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