Fire Water and Copper Pipes

The consequences of the 1988 fire in the library of the USSR Academy of Sciences: piles of burnt books, newspapers; shelving. Opened books on the floor, hung on ropes. Workers move bookshelves to refrigerators, pack books in special cotton blankets; drying books in a vacuum chamber. The director of the library, V.P. Leonov, talks about the causes of the fire: the absence of a fire alarm, the cramped premises, primitive heating, and low government funding. Antique, rare books, maps, atlases, in precious frames, decorated with colored miniatures, chasing. Books of Peter's time "Military regulations", "Marine regulations". Antiquary from West Germany Detlaf Avermann, who organized the International Fund of Friends of the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Frankfurt, at an exhibition of rare and valuable books. Readers are engaged in the reading room of the library. Repair of library repositories.

Color

3

1990