Regional Archival Sources on the History of a Young City on the Example of Divnogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Region

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doi 10.28995/2073-0101-2024-1-295-304

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Pavlyukevich, Ruslan V., Severyanov, Mikhail D., Elteko, Juliya V. Regional Archival Sources on the History of a Young City on the Example of Divnogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Region (In Russ). IN: Vestnik Archivista / Herald of an Archivist, 2024, no. 1, pp. 295-304. doi 10.28995/2073-0101-2024-1-295-304

Pavlyukevich, Ruslan V., Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

Severyanov, Mikhail D., Elteko, Juliya V., Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

Regional Archival Sources on the History of a Young City on the Example of Divnogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Region

Abstract

The article presents a review of the corpus of documents of the State Archive of Krasnoyarsk Krai, related to the history of Divnogorsk. The town was founded by the authorities as a settlement serving the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station in 1963. Divnogorsk is one of the many young industrialised small towns which appeared in the USSR during the next round of industrial modernisation. Its peculiarity is the close connection to the regional centre. Divnogorsk is a part of Krasnoyarsk agglomeration. Due to the high role of the town in the economic plans and projects of the Krasnoyarsk region development, its history is reflected not only in the town archive, but also in the documents of the regional archive collection to a great extent. A considerable part of them has not yet been put into scientific circulation. The corpus of documents related to Divnogorsk is quite complicated and chaotic. It is represented by neither one fund in particular but scattered over many others. All the materials about the town can be divided into two groups. Firstly, these are funds entirely dedicated to and related to Divnogorsk and businesses located there. These are mainly collections of party and Soviet organizations of Divnogorsk. Due to the fact that the town was a relatively small settlement, these materials reflect data on various aspects of life and development of small industrial town in Siberia. This group includes the fonds of the Divnogorsk town committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR, primary party organizations of the CPSU institutions in Divnogorsk (the town's building and transport departments, the executive committee of the town council, the town committee, the low voltage plant, the housing and utilities office, the court and prosecutor's offices, and educational institutions); the fonds of the town's Komsomol organizations, and state and party control agencies. The second group comprises the fonds of the township-wide fonds, which contain information on the socio-economic development of the township. The second group includes the fonds of Krasnoyarskgesstroy Construction Directorate, Krasnoyarsk Region Planning Commission, and the local branch of the Federal State Statistics Service in Krasnoyarsk Region. The use of the krai archives collections allows a comprehensive study of the phenomenon of young cities of the USSR. The analysis of documents related to Divnogorsk in the State Archive of Krasnoyarsk region will make it possible to understand the regularity of deposition of documents on history of young towns of the Soviet period in archives, which will contribute to further search of materials to study such topics.

Keywords

Young city, small town, urban studies, archival fonds, Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station, Hydroelectric power station

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About the authors

Pavlyukevich Ruslan V., PhD in History, Associate Professor, Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University, Department of History and Political Science, Associate Professor, Siberian Federal University, Department of History of Russia, World and Regional Civilizations, Associate Professor, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, +7-902-914-06-18, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Severyanov Mikhail D., Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Siberian Federal University, Department of History of Russia, World and Regional Civilizations, Professor, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, +7-902-918-79-90, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Elteko Yulia Viktorovna, Siberian Federal University, Department of History of Russia, World and Regional Civilizations, Assistant, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, +7-999-443-50-30, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Grant information

The study was carried out with the support of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Foundation for the Support of Scientific and Scientific-Technical Activities in the framework of the project «History of the municipality of Divnogorsk» No. 2023031609644.

The article was received in the editorial office on 13.06.2023, recommended for publication on 20.12.2023.