More than one million historic documents damaged in Moscow university library fire
4 February 2015 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
A fire at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, one of Moscow’s largest university libraries, is being described as a ‘cultural Chernobyl’, reports ABC News. The library, which holds more than 10 million documents—some of which date back to the 16th century—was founded in 1918 and includes one...
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