Consequences of a fire in 1988 in the library of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR: a pile of charred books, newspapers; shelving.
Open books on the floor, hung on a clothesline.
Workers carry shelving books in cold storage, pack books in special quilts; books in a vacuum drying chamber.
Library Director VP Leonov tells about the causes of fire: the lack of a fire alarm, distress sale, primitive heating, low government funding.
Vintage and rare books, maps, atlases, in precious, decorated with colored miniatures coining.
Books of Peter's time "Military Regulations", "Statutes of the sea".
Antique dealer from West Germany Detlaf Avermann, organized in city
Frankfurt International Foundation Friends of the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, at the exhibition of rare and valuable books.
Readers are engaged in the reading room of the library.
Repair storage library.
Key words
Fire protection.
Cultural ties.
Economic ties.
Natural disasters.