MOSCOW, January 31 – RIA Novosti. Damage to the stacks of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION RAS) from the fire could have been much higher if the building is not just fire alarm, told RIA Novosti representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the capital of central board.
Information about the fire on the top floor of a three storey building came on Friday about ten o’clock in the evening. The area of the fire was two thousand square meters, the roof collapsed over an area of thousands of square meters, as well as part of the outer wall of the building. According to preliminary estimates leadership RAS, could suffer about 15% of the 10 million units of the book fund placed in an underground vault.
“to the library in this respect, Ministry of Emergency Situations claim none at all. All the equipment was fine, alarm triggered time . The water supply system functioned, the first arriving fire brigades took water from the fire line and no problems have begun to extinguish. If there were faults, damage the stacks could be much higher, “- said the interlocutor.
According to her, for library including several violations of fire safety rules, inspectors identified previously, but they were not as critical to affect the fire fighting.
INION – the largest scientific centers in Russia in the field of social sciences and humanities. His collection consists of 14.2 million copies in the ancient and modern Eastern European and Russian languages, including rare editions XVI – early XX centuries. The library has the most complete, and in some cases only in Russia collection of documents of the League of Nations, the UN and UNESCO, parliamentary reports USA (1789), England (1803), Italy (since 1897) and one of the largest in Russia collections of books in Slavic languages.
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