Passersby noticed a pile of old newspapers in the trash near the building of the St. Petersburg State University's Faculty of Journalism

Valya Mann, co-founder of the Doors from Dumpsters project, told Bumaga about the find. According to her, there were a lot of newspapers, as if a large archive had been raked out and thrown out: - They were in sewn-up folders. Some of them had a stamp from the library of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The latest editions, according to Mann, date back to the 1960s. One of the earliest is from 1875. Some newspapers are burnt at the edges. Eyewitnes…