In 1924-1925 the collections were transferred to the new building built for the library in 1914 and occupied by a military hospital during the First World War.

In a 2018 article on the web site "Siberian scientific news" it says that the fire destroyed 298 061 copy of monographs and periodicals; 146,716 books in Russian; 152,245 copies of foreign publications before 1930, arranged according to the classification system of academician Karl Baer (including the legendary Baer fund - about 62 thousand folios).

Describing the first libraries of St. Petersburg, he called the Library of the Imperial Academy of Sciences one of the earliest and most important, which, - he wrote, - “began to gather by the supreme decree of the Emperor Peter the Great from 1714, and in 1724 it was united into the Imperial Academy of Sciences".

"This great monarch has collected very significant funds for the library of his St. Petersburg Academy, which is provided in large numbers with books in all fields of science.

The first book on the history of the Library was written by its employee with 32 years of experience, an adjunct of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (1766), a member of the Imp.

Free Economic Society, non-commissioned librarian Johann Konrad (Ivan Grigorievich) Buckmeister.

The first to enter it were the libraries of the Archive (1800), the Observatory (1804), the Numismatic Cabinet (1804–1806), the Botanical Garden (1809); libraries at academic museums: Asian, Botanical, Zoological; societies: Mineralogical, Geographic; at laboratories: Chemical (1881), Physiological (1889), Anatomy and Plant Physiology (1890), Special Zoological (1894), at the Main Physical Observatory, etc.

Since the 1870s, efforts to expand the premises have been the leitmotif of many speeches by the heads of library departments: Academician A.A. Kunik (Russian branch), academician Carl Salemann (Foreign Department) and Master Eduards Volters, (Slavic branch).

In 1862 LRAS(Library Of Russian Academy Of Sciences) received publications on book exchange from 150 Western European large scientific centers, and by the end of the 19th century.

In the 19th century, the library's holdings were replenished with a collection of maps of Russia of the Geographical Department, publications of domestic periodicals of the Ministry of Public Education, books of the Foreign Censorship Committee, periodicals donated by Alexander Polovtsov, a collection of books and manuscripts by V.A.

Koeller, Johann Philipp Krug, Yakov Grot, Christian Martin Frähn, Anders Johan Sjögren, Fyodr Andreyevich Tolstoy.

The receipts of books from the personal libraries of Karl Ernst von Baer, Yakov Zakharov, Franz Aepinus, William Henry Harvey, Friedrich von Adelung, Paul Fuss, Yakov Ivanovich Berednikov, Ludolf Stephani et al.[4] The beginning of the twentieth century.

On January 8, 1901, due to the dilapidated heating system, a fire broke out in the Library, during which more than 1,500 volumes of valuable publications were destroyed.

All government agencies, universities, other educational institutions, scientific organizations and societies delivered their publications to the Library.

On October 9, 1925, during the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Academy of Sciences, the official opening of the Library took place in a new building on Birzhevaya Line, 1.

Of the 150 people left in the LRAS according to the staff schedule at the beginning of the war, about 80% of employees died...

The library served not only the scientists of the Academy who remained in the besieged city, but also workers of defense enterprises, military personnel, doctors.

The Library staff continued to organize exhibitions of literature, lectures, and carried out reference and bibliographic work.

[4] The collection of domestic publications is located in 17 book depositories on eight half-floors of the main building of the Library.

The fund is organized by branches of knowledge in accordance with the ideas of that time and contains literature obtained on the basis of the so-called legal deposit.

At the beginning of the 20th century, inventory and partly formatted arrangements were adopted, introduced by the director, academician A.A. Shakhmatov.

The collection contains complete sets of magazines published by Russian revolutionary democrats, including Sovremennik, Otechestvennye zapiski, edited by N.G.

The largest of them is the personal library of Arist Aristovich Kunik, a famous historian and long-term director of the Russian branch of the LARS.

This collection contains literature on the history of Russia and Scandinavia, rare editions and Russian books of the 18th century.

A.A. Kunik also collected brochures on various topics, reprints, clippings of articles from magazines, bound them and created thematic convolutes.

This fund is completed, basically, at the expense of that part of the legal deposit of works of the press, which, due to their homogeneity, can be grouped.

Since 1951, a collection of abstracts of dissertations has been formed as part of the main fund, which currently has about half a million copies.

[4] The collection of foreign editions of the main storage is located on 4 floors in fourteen book depositories.

- 75%, foreign - 7% In addition, more than 15 thousand newspaper sets were affected by water, steam and high temperatures.

All subsequent years, active work was carried out to restore the lost editions with the help of domestic and foreign libraries.