The first chemical journal in Russian, namely the magazine of Russian society of Physics and Chemistry, was published in St. Petersburg in 1869. Zinin and Butlerov took an active part in it. All issues of the journal are kept in the library now. Collection of the most important chemical journals was bought by A.M.Zaitsev. According to his will, Zaitsev's wife and son gave this remarkable collection to the laboratory after his death.

Books of the library are not only museum exhibits. They are devoted to the service of science. The library is constantly enriched with new literature. Books and dissertations, which belonged to famous Kazan chemists, colorful jubilee folds given to A.Ye.Arbuzov and B.A.Arbuzov, as well as their collected scientific works have been presented to the museum. Leather covered collected articles represent nine volumes of Alexander Ye. Arbuzov's works and fourteen volumes of Boris A. Arbuzov.

There are also books from Yu.A.Arbuzov's private collection. One of the representatives of the Arbuzov's dynasty, he graduated from the Kazan university and worked at the department of organic chemistry of Moscow university.

There is an old clock among the bookcases, which was bought for the laboratory by Klauss. Unique exhibits connected with A.Ye.Arbuzov name, are kept in the library.

A.Ye.Arbuzov headed the Department of Organic Chemistry during the period from 1911 to 1938. Being A.M.Zaitsev's disciple, he graduated from the Kazan University in 1900. Living in Novo-Alexandria city in Poland, far from the established scientific centers, he chose a new trend of investigations, namely chemistry of phosphoric organic compounds.

A well known reaction of transformation of phosphorous acid ether to the ethers of phosphon acid (Arbuzov's reaction) became a universal method of synthesis of phosphorous organic compounds, belonging to different classes.

There are cylinder vessels and retorts with phenol, salicylic acid and aspirin on a shelf above the glazed door. After the war began, they stopped importing expensive and valuable preparations from Germany to Russia, such as phenol (for obtaining carbolic acid) and aspirin. A.Ye.Arbuzov and his colleagues from the former chemical laboratory proposed a method of phenol and aspirin synthesis, based on the material of home production. They were produced at the Krestovnikovs' candle and soap factories.

While organizing technological process of salicylic production A.Ye.Arbuzov introduced methods and schemes of exquisite originality. More over, he designed new types of apparatuses for chemical technology. Alexander Ye. Arbuzov took part both in designing all plant apparatuses and their mounting as well.

Aspirin of Kazan production, having been medically tested, was of the same quality as the aspirin, produced by German company "Bier". At that time aspirin, sold in drugstores of the Kazan city, was packed in pasteboard boxes. One can see two of them in the museum. Having aesthetic gift, Alexander Ye. Arbuzov himself made drafts of 500-gram- and 20-gram-packing. More over, he created the plant production advertising.