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When did the IOS move into the Novo-Mihailovsky palace?[edit]

According to History of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, "The Institute [of Oriental Studies] was located in the building of the Academic Library of the RAS" (when it was founded in 1930), and "it was decided that the Institute’s core library and its collection of the Eastern manuscripts and early printed books would be kept in Leningrad in the Novo-Mihailovsky palace (Dvortsovaya emb., 18) to where they were moved in 1949 and where the IOM RAS is now located" which suggests that the IOS only moved into the New Michael Palace in 1949. However this article states that "Since the Russian Revolution, the edifice has housed the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies" (which was the Asiatic Museum until 1930, and is now the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts). Can anyone confirm when the palace was first occupied by the IOS (or Asiatic Museum)? BabelStone (talk) 18:59, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

According to the Russian Wikipedia, the palace housed a branch of the Communist Academy in the interbellum years. The institute of oriental studies moved in 1949. It was earlier based in the University Embankment campus. --Ghirla^-трёп- 21:49, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I've updated the article now. BabelStone (talk) 12:40, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that the palce is currently occupied by the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS in one wing, and the Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS in the other wing, and that previously the palace was also home to the Institute of Electrophysics and Electric Power RAS, but I can't find the exact dates that each institution moved in or moved out, so have not updated the article yet. BabelStone (talk) 00:34, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]