
The Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences is evicted from a building on Krzhizhanovsky Street, which was provided after a fire in January 2015. This was announced by the leading researcher INION Oksana Kiyanskaya.
“The burned out of the company needs the help of society. After the fire, he was resettled to Krzhizhanovsky Street 15, to the building of the former Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Today at 13:00 in Inon, an order was received from the Federal State Unitary Enterprise“ Office of Service Buildings ”to leave the building for seven working days. Where to go, they are not tied to the street. In the building they were chopped off and removed the Internet and removed the Internet and removed the Internet and removed the Internet and removed the Internet Floors, ”Kiyanskaya wrote.
In a letter addressed to the director of INION Ilya Zaitsev, it is stated that the building on Krzhizhanovsky, built in 1954, needs urgent major repairs. It is noted that the commission with the participation of representatives of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Guard discovered "hazardous areas and critical elements of the object that do not allow third parties to be in the building." Where the INION should move, the document is not said.
Meanwhile, the source of RBC in Fano said that the institute was offered a choice of several places for moving, and the building on Krzhizhanovsky was not initially considered as a permanent place for the placement of INION. However, Fano did not receive an official response to RBC.
On the evening of January 30, 2015 , a fire began in the INION building on Nakhimovsky Prospekt, which continued all night . Fire covered 2 thousand square meters. 1 thousand square meters has a collapse of the roof. The fire was localized, but the firefighters could not extinguish the fire for a long time. Separate foci of combustion were preserved until the morning of February 2.
More than 5 million copies of scientific publications stored in the Institute Fund were lost. Almost half of them cannot be restored.
In September last year, the Urban Planning and Land Commission of Moscow decided torestore and reconstruct the burned-out building of INION . Officials assured that after completing the work, the building would retain its functionality and will be used for scientific activity. Meanwhile, a few months before, the INION team expressed concern for the reconstruction project. The project of restoration of the stock of funds that had at their disposal did not correspond to the volume of library funds.
INION is the country's largest scientific center in the field of social and humanities. His library has about 14.8 million books in ancient, modern eastern, European and Russian languages, including rare editions of the 16th - early 20th centuries. The library has the most complete, and in some cases, the only collections of documents of the League of Nations, the UN and UNESCO, the US parliamentary reports (since 1789), England (since 1803), Italy (since 1897) and one of the largest collections of books in Slavic languages.