Russian invaders destroyed 180 thousand books in Mariupol.
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This was reported today, September 1, in the Telegram channel of the Mariupol City Council.
It is noted that before the full-scale Russian invasion, the library fund of the city amounted to 360 thousand books.
According to preliminary information, 50% of the publications burned down during shelling or were liquidated as “extremist,” the city council notes.
Also in the city such libraries are destroyed or critically damaged – named after Lesya Ukrainka, Kuprin, Korolenko and Gogol.
Invaders bring literature from the territory of Russia into the surviving libraries. And the names are being renamed,” the City Council notes. — Yes, the library of Ivan Franko is now called Pushkin, Oles Gonchar is called Chekhov, and the historical library of Mikhail Grushevsky is now called him. Karamzin.
At the same time, the library named after Korolenko is now working in the evacuation in the Dnieper.
The director of the library, Victoria Lisogor, is fruitfully working on the creation of new collections. 2300 titles of books have already been collected. They are donated by charitable foundations, organizations, volunteers. Until the de-occupation of Mariupol, they are stored in the Dnieper Library, the report says.
Source: Racurs
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