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IT is announced by “Russia Today” Press Service that work has been commenced in Moscow on the new building for the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. The building will consist of three blocks, the main one of which (the laboratory block) will house the seven departments engaged in the study of the different branches of organic chemistry. This block will have a volume of 1,907,000 cubic feet. In addition, there will be an autoclave building and a block for big installations and workshops, with an aggregate volume of 388,500 cubic feet. Spacious accommodation has been set aside for a library of 70,000 volumes, as well as a big reading-room and an auditorium for 250 persons. The cost of the new building, not counting special equipment, is estimated to be 12½ million roubles. It is hoped to complete it in 1942.
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Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow. Nature 146, 520 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146520b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146520b0