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ALTHOUGH information had been received that the most valuable of the instruments had been removed from the Pulkovo Observatory before it was shelled and bombed by the Germans, there had been no news about its valuable library, which contained many rare treasures, including the manuscripts of Kepler. It is now learned from the Moscow News that the library had remained in the building, stored away in the basements. After the Observatory had been shelled for three weeks, it was decided to save the library at any cost. In the middle of October 1941, under incessant German artillery fire, the removal of the library was undertaken by the employees of the Leningrad Museums and Park Administration. Truck after truck pulled up to Pulkovo until all the books had been removed. The Observatory is now a mass of ruins, but the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. has been instructed by the Government to draw up and present by November 1 a project for the rehabilitation of the Observatory.
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Pulkovo Observatory Library. Nature 154, 483 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154483a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154483a0