- February 2, 2015
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On the third day after a major fire building of the library of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) in Moscow continues to smoke. On-site emergency still working police and fire.
On the perimeter of the building exposed to about 20 fire engines: spilling the left wing of the library continues.
At the site of the fire together experts and investigators. According to preliminary data, the cause of the fire could be a short circuit.
The day before, there were several collapses inside the building – each area of 50-100 square meters.
The temperature on the ground floor near the rubble remains high.
Two thousand square meters
One of the largest libraries in Russia began to burn in the evening on Friday January 30th. Firefighters fought the fire on an area of about 2 thousand square meters.
The fire collapsed the roof over an area of 1 thousand square meters, as well as part of the outer wall of the building.
The fire on the third floor three-storey building on the Nakhimov Avenue, Building 51 was assigned to the third issue of complexity on a five-point scale.
Data on injuries were reported.
Freeze Putin
The damage caused by fire in the library INION 15% of the total fund, said President Vladimir Fortov.
“Previously we can evaluate fire damage in 15% of the total fund, “- said the fort. This is also the press service of the Federal Agency of scientific organizations.
According to the Russian Academy of Sciences, version of arson is not considered a fire damaged materials can be recovered.
On Insolvency version arson told the newspaper “Kommersant” and director Yuri INION Brewers.
Earlier blogs have appeared that the territory occupied INION, planned to pass under construction.
“This land, as well as the institution itself is federal property, and, as you know, President Vladimir Putin declared a moratorium on the [transfer] Academy of Sciences of the land, so there is no sense of arson, “- said the head of INION.
Catastrophe
The manual Russian Academy of Sciences the fire in the library named INION disaster. “As for the fire – that is, in general, a disaster. In another way you will not name,” – said to Interfax on Saturday, Deputy President of Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Ivanov.
“This is a huge loss – what happened,” – said Ivanov .
On the restoration of the library will take several years.
“Water – hurt. It was bad, but easily remedied. What matters is that the fire does not hurt. Institute – destroyed. Foundation, I think, be saved,” – said the director of the Brewers INION Yuri, his words quoted by Interfax.
Director Vladimir Fortov also compared the fire in the library with Chernobyl.
“For science is a great loss, it is the world’s largest repository of this kind, similar perhaps to the Library of Congress [the United States]. Here collected materials, which can not be found elsewhere and all humanitarian institutions use this library. Externally, what happened, now resembles Chernobyl “- Fortier said.
Second Moscow
INION – the largest research centers in Russia in the field of social sciences and humanities.
His collection consists of 14.2 million items in various languages, including rare editions XVI – early XX centuries.
This is the second largest library in Moscow and fourth in all of Russia.
“For many decades, library INION played an important role in the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and above all relevant scientific information, which was obtained by scientists in the provincial Russian universities – historians, philosophers, political scientists, sociologists and other social scientists. Books in many languages stored here and through abstract collection of information are spread across Russia “, – said Russian portal TheQuestion.ru Hist Dmitry Smirnov.
(Photograph courtesy of the press service of the Main Directorate of Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in Moscow )
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