On UNESCO's contribution to restoring suffered funds of the Library of the Academy of Sciences
https://doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2019-1-59-63
Abstract
Article is devoted by the 30th anniversary from the day of bonfire in the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Based on V. M. Montvilov's book, the author attempts to open his contribution to liquidate the bonfire consequences in the Academy of Sciences’ Library. Montvilov played a great role in organizing negotiations with leading libraries and rendering international aid. His work as a UNESCO official was connected with preservation of such cultural objects of Russia as the Bolshoi Theatre, Russian State Library, the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Library. In the book «International official …», the author opened the specific character of UNESCO and emphasized a special role of this organization in the cultural heritage development of preservation. The book reflected his recollections and first impression about the Academy of Sciences’ Library and revealed new facts of elimination of the bonfire consequences. Montvilov's book is of great interest to the reader due to a wide range of problems posed in it and great factual material.
About the Author
T. B. Markova
Russian Academy of Sciences’ Library
Russian Federation
Saint Petersburg
Russian Federation
Saint Petersburg
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Markova T.B. On UNESCO's contribution to restoring suffered funds of the Library of the Academy of Sciences. Bibliosphere. 2019;(1):59-63. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2019-1-59-63
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