While most international eyes were turned towards Iraq, other disasters took their course including a fire that destroyed a warehouse of the Kamianets-Podilsky Archives in Ukraine on 10 April 2003. Five major fonds covering the history of Podolia Gubernia from the end of the seventeenth to the twentieth century were damaged in the fire, the cause of which is under investigation.
In addition to those documents that were completely destroyed, many unique historical documents were water-damaged. Over 2 tons of archival material have been evacuated from the destroyed warehouse. About 10,000 items, which were transferred into the refrigerator and frozen at -30C, are progressively being dried in three special rooms.
The chairman of the State Archives Committee, Dr. Hennadii Boriak, immediately went to survey the damage and formulate a plan for the rescue and recovery of documents. Local archivists together with cadets, policemen, firemen and other municipal personnel, students and ordinary people have been working around the clock to save whatever is possible.
Flash: What's New / ICA, September, 2003, No. 1
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