National Library of Serbia

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National Library of Serbia Народна библиотека Србије

Location	Belgrade
Established	1832
Director	Sreten Ugričić
Website	www.nbs.bg.ac.yu/

National Library of Serbia (Serbian: Народна библиотека Србије/Narodna biblioteka Srbije) is situated in the city of Belgrade (Vračar municipality) next to the Temple of Saint Sava.

It was founded in 1832 by Gligorije Vozarović. Current library director is Sreten Ugričić.

In 1941 bombing of Belgrade by Nazi Germany, the old library on Kosančićev Venac saw the destruction of more than one million books.