FORTS: a Fire destroyed up to 20% of the holdings of the library of the Institute

According to the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov, the fire in the library of the Institute of scientific information on social Sciences (INION) could eliminate up to 20% of its funds.
"Lost about 20% (funds)" - quoted by RIA "Novosti" message Fortov in the broadcast channel " Russia 24 ". The library was kept up to fifteen million rare books in the Humanities and social Sciences. Yesterday FORTS said that eventually the fire received damage 15% of the Fund of the library. Before the last working day of the week the Prime Minister of Russia Medvedev D. A. ordered Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich to control the work on elimination of the consequences of the fire in the library of the Institute. However, foreign scholars, and among them are from Ukraine, has made an offer his help in restoring damaged by fire to the library. First Director of the Institute for scientific information on social Sciences (INION) RAS Yuri Pivovarov said that the version about the deliberate burning of the library building insolvent. He also stated that burned down the library building is beyond repair. Brewers noted that among the possible reasons for a large fire in the Institute for scientific information on social Sciences (INION) of the RAS in the MOE consider a short circuit and fire thrown from firecrackers. Remember, January 30 in the evening at the fundamental library of the Institute (the Institute) studies in the Russian capital on Nakhimovsky Prospekt was on fire. As stated in the Department, the fire broke out on the 3rd floor, which is not completely burnt out, but a large part of the building turned out to defend from the fire ". The INION is the largest scientific information centre of Russia in the field of social Sciences and Humanities. His library consists of 14, 2 million copies in ancient, modern, Eastern, European and Russian languages, and among them rare editions XVI - early XX centuries. The library has the most complete, and in some cases the only Russian collection of documents of the League of Nations, the UN and UNESCO, parliamentary reports USA (1789), England (1803), Italy (since 1897) and almost the largest Russian collections of books on Slavic languages.


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