After a fire INION

• INION after fire

Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION RAS) - founded in 1969 by a research organization of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the largest Russian scientific information center in the field of social sciences and humanities. His library consists of 14, 2 million copies, including rare editions XVI - early XX century.

The following photo essay about what happened in the library this winter, and will show how sadly it looks today.

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January 30, 2015 a fire occurred in the library - the complexity of the third number on a scale. People were not injured, but the library funds suffered significant losses.

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In the area of ​​a thousand square meters of the roof partially collapsed. fire area - about two thousand square meters. The fire extinguishing 208 people attended and 58 units of equipment. February 3 of the library staff have returned to work.

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The Library has the most complete, and in some cases only in Russia Meeting of the League of Nations documents, the UN and UNESCO, the US parliamentary reports (1789), England (1803), Italy (since 1897).

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One of Russia's largest collections of books in Slavic languages ​​is also stored in INION.

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According to preliminary estimates, the fire burned more than five million copies of books, periodicals and printing of documents, many of which have not been digitized, that is, hard-to (about 2 million copies).

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Fire Fighting took 27 hours.

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After extinguishing the library staff began to evacuate the surviving fund.

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According to the degree of damage to the books, the fund was divided into "dry" and "wet."

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In the call for help dozens of volunteers have responded to social networks.

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taken all the so-called "dry pool" from February 24 to March 16 - the book is not affected by the fire (about 600 thousand).

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The work was in full swing from morning to night in three shifts for four hours: 9:00, 13:00 and 18:00.

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Books, completely burnt in the fire until it touched.

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The library staff, especially Zoe Metlitskaya and Tatiana Reshetnik, well organized work of volunteers. Women pairs packed boxes, the man took out of the exit and shipped in trucks.

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March 19, 2015 started the mass export of "wet Fund". For four days the building was evacuated about 80 tons of soaked literature. Now every day is preparing to load about 20-30 tons of books and magazines.

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In contrast to the "dry Fund", packed in cartons, soaked for firefighting books and magazines are packaged in special plastic containers, which are then sent to the freezers in Lyubertsy.

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There's at low temperatures in the cryo-chamber, they will wait for their turn on the dryer.

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One-filled plastic box weighs about 20 kg, it is placed about 20 books and 40 magazines. Total INION take up to 92 million boxes. According to preliminary estimates, it will be evacuated to about 1, 5 thousand tons of literature.

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Organization for packing books and their removal by a special contractor without involving the help of volunteers.

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In addition to the book fund, a fire broke down almost all the equipment. Writes Zoe Metlitskaya: "Dear friends! As long as we translate the spirit and ready for further works, we can recall that INION but terrible trouble with the books, there are other problems. In particular, the Institute of Scientific Information about 700 employees left 10 working computers. All the rest were burned or wet ... If someone of you or someone you know is willing to give or sell for a nominal price of the old computer, monitor, printer, scanner, keyboard, and so on. N., Call me 89037516263 or my colleague Michael Mintz 89161483094. The issue of export will resolve in private. Thank you all !!! "

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The fire miraculously survived the library catalog.

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After the fire there was a question about the reconstruction of the building. At the moment, the architectural community has been fighting for that INION building was restored in its original form and in the same place.

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Information for those who are willing to help the library can be found on the official website INION.