In 1883 was founded the Semipalatinsk Multipurpose Library named after Abay. It was opened on the initiative of the revolutionary democrats , exiled in Semipalatinsk tsarist government for participation in revolutionary circles. The library consisted of only a thousand copies of publications . The library was the center of Semipalatinsk intellectuals , regular readers of her were : E.Mihaelis , N.Dolgopolov , A.Kunanbaev. American journalist visited the library and publicist George Kennan, the Russian traveler P.Seed Tien Shan, a Polish revolutionary Yanushkevich who describe .
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