The 1988 fire in the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences) broke out on Sunday, February 14, 1988, in the newspaper section on the third floor of the library; the cause of which is still unknown. According to the library's acting director Valeriy Leonov, the fire alarm sounded at 8:13 pm, when the library was closed for visitors. By the time the fire was extinguished the following afternoon, it had destroyed 298,000 books of the total 12 million housed, two to three million more were damaged by heat and smoke. About 734,465 copies volumes initially became damp due to firefighting foam. Many of the lost volumes were part of the Baer Collection of foreign scientific works: 152,000 were lost. The rest 146,000 were Russian books.
Attributes | Values |
---|
rdf:type
| |
rdfs:label
| - 1988 Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences fire (en)
- Incêndio na Biblioteca da Academia de Ciências da União Soviética em 1988 (pt)
- Пожар в Библиотеке Академии наук СССР (ru)
|
rdfs:comment
| - Пожар в Библиотеке Академии наук СССР в Ленинграде — чрезвычайное происшествие, случившееся в ночь на 15 февраля 1988 года, в результате которого водой был нанесён огромный ущерб книгам. (ru)
- O incêndio na Biblioteca da Academia de Ciências da União Soviética (atual Academia de Ciências da Rússia) iniciou-se em 14 de fevereiro de 1988 na seção de jornais localizada no terceiro andar do edifício. De acordo com Valerii Leonov, diretor da instituição à época, o alarme de incêndio soou às 20h13, quando a biblioteca encontrava-se fechada a visitantes. No momento em que o incêndio foi extinto, na tarde do dia seguinte, haviam sido destruídos entre 300 e 400 mil livros de um total de 12 milhões abrigados no acervo. Cerca de 3,5 milhões de volumes foram umidificados devido ao uso de espuma de combate a incêndio. Muitos dos livros perdidos tratava-se de obras científicas estrangeiras. (pt)
- The 1988 fire in the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences) broke out on Sunday, February 14, 1988, in the newspaper section on the third floor of the library; the cause of which is still unknown. According to the library's acting director Valeriy Leonov, the fire alarm sounded at 8:13 pm, when the library was closed for visitors. By the time the fire was extinguished the following afternoon, it had destroyed 298,000 books of the total 12 million housed, two to three million more were damaged by heat and smoke. About 734,465 copies volumes initially became damp due to firefighting foam. Many of the lost volumes were part of the Baer Collection of foreign scientific works: 152,000 were lost. The rest 146,000 were Russian books. (en)
|
geo:lat
| |
geo:long
| |
foaf:depiction
| |
dcterms:subject
| |
Wikipage page ID
| |
Wikipage revision ID
| |
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
| |
sameAs
| |
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
| |
thumbnail
| |
reported deaths
| |
caption
| |
date
| |
place
| |
georss:point
| |
has abstract
| - The 1988 fire in the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences) broke out on Sunday, February 14, 1988, in the newspaper section on the third floor of the library; the cause of which is still unknown. According to the library's acting director Valeriy Leonov, the fire alarm sounded at 8:13 pm, when the library was closed for visitors. By the time the fire was extinguished the following afternoon, it had destroyed 298,000 books of the total 12 million housed, two to three million more were damaged by heat and smoke. About 734,465 copies volumes initially became damp due to firefighting foam. Many of the lost volumes were part of the Baer Collection of foreign scientific works: 152,000 were lost. The rest 146,000 were Russian books. The lost fund was partially restored, large batches of books and individual rare editions came from more than 700 domestic libraries to replenish the lost funds. Many of the lost books were foreign scientific works. (en)
- Пожар в Библиотеке Академии наук СССР в Ленинграде — чрезвычайное происшествие, случившееся в ночь на 15 февраля 1988 года, в результате которого водой был нанесён огромный ущерб книгам. (ru)
- O incêndio na Biblioteca da Academia de Ciências da União Soviética (atual Academia de Ciências da Rússia) iniciou-se em 14 de fevereiro de 1988 na seção de jornais localizada no terceiro andar do edifício. De acordo com Valerii Leonov, diretor da instituição à época, o alarme de incêndio soou às 20h13, quando a biblioteca encontrava-se fechada a visitantes. No momento em que o incêndio foi extinto, na tarde do dia seguinte, haviam sido destruídos entre 300 e 400 mil livros de um total de 12 milhões abrigados no acervo. Cerca de 3,5 milhões de volumes foram umidificados devido ao uso de espuma de combate a incêndio. Muitos dos livros perdidos tratava-se de obras científicas estrangeiras. (pt)
|
prov:wasDerivedFrom
| |
page length (characters) of wiki page
| |
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
| |
geo:geometry
| - POINT(30.29700088501 59.944000244141)
|
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
of | |
is foaf:primaryTopic
of | |