OREANDA-NEWS The traffic on Vyborgskaya Street in Moscow was blocked due to a fire in the State Archive of Literature and Art, the press service of the Traffic Management Center (CTO) reports.

Earlier it was reported about the evacuation of people after a fire in a five-story administrative building at Vyborgskaya Street, Building 3, Building 1.

Due to heavy smoke on two floors of the archive about 100 people were evacuated from the building.

“Due to the ignition in house 3 on Vyborgskaya street, traffic from the Leningradskoye highway to Admiral Makarov street is blocked. Operational services are working at the site,” the press office of the CTO on Twitter wrote.