On March 14, 2022, on Orthodox Book Day, the rector of the Minsk Theological Academy, Archimandrite Athanasius (Sokolov), presented the National Library of Belarus with the first volume of the new edition of Gennady's Bible.

Gennady's Bible is a unique religious, historical, cultural monument of the the Russian Orthodox Church. This is the first complete set of handwritten Biblical books of the Old and New Testaments, in the Church Slavonic language. The work on this unique book was completed by 1499 under the supervision of St. Gennady of Novgorod.

This phototype edition of the 1499 Gennady’s Bible has been reproduced from the copy kept in the State Historical Museum (Moscow). The copy contains 1007 sheets in folio, bound in leather on boards. The sacred texts are complemented by a Synodal translation, reprinted from the Bible published by the Moscow Patriarchate.

The work on the publication, which is to be released in nine volumes, is being carried out by the Sretensky Monastery Publishing House and the State Historical Museum, both in Moscow. A group of specialists translated all commentaries to the books in Gennady's Bible, as well as of the largest fragments that are missing in the Synodal translation into Russian.

Orthodox Book Day is a holiday established in 2010 by the Russian Orthodox Church. It is celebrated on March 1 according to the Julian calendar, which in the 21st century corresponds to March 14 on the Gregorian calendar. The date coincides with the release of Ivan Fedorov's first printed book in Russia — the Apostle, published on March 1, 1564.