The student years of Saparmyrat Türkmenbaºy the Great
  


    When I was studying at the university, I used to go to the library. I read not only books about my lessons, I found rare books about Türkmen history and read them patiently.  

(32.) 

I was separated from my homeland, which I love very much, when I began to study in Leningrad. By going to the libraries there, I immersed myself in the depths of history so that I felt as if I was at the heart of my homeland. During my education in Leningrad, I learnt the five thousand year history of my people by reading every single line about it.

(156.)