Moscow Fire Destroys More Than 2 Million Books and Documents
Lesson Brief
BBC Russian Service
A fire in Moscow this weekend destroyed over two million important books and documents at a Russian Academy of Sciences library. A large portion of the collection destroyed had not yet been digitized. The library is home to all kinds of very rare books, including books in many different languages and old, Slavic texts.
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- greatest
- крупнейший
- arson
- поджог
- to seize, to suffice, to grab
- хватать, хватить
- storage
- хранение
- book depository
- книгохранилища
- to appraise, to assess, to value
- оценивать, отценить
- digitized
- оцифрован
- to fight, to battle, to combat
- сражаться, сразиться
- property
- собственность
- room, premises, quarters
- помещение