All-Russian Society of the Blind is a Russian organization that unites people with disabilities with partial or total vision loss. The Society’s main mission is to provide its members with the opportunity to live with dignity and to be useful to society and the state.
On April 6, 1925, the 1st founding congress of the All-Russian Society of the Blind was held in Moscow. It was opened by Boris Petrovich Mavromati, who at that time headed the Moscow initiative group established in 1923 to create the All-Russian Society of the Blind. Since then, April 6 has been considered the Society’s founding day.
The All-Russian Society of the Blind became the first in the history of the USSR public, industrial-economic, and cultural-educational organization to unite people who are blind or have low vision, helping people who have lost their sight to integrate into society and participate in public, economic, and cultural life. Even today, the Society remains authoritative and does not lose its relevance.