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DOI 10.28995/2073-0101-2019-2-417-427

Vladimir A. Rubin

Orenburg State Agrarian University, Committee on Archives of the Orenburg Region

Ekaterina V. Spiridonova

Orenburg State University, Orenburg, Russian Federation

Source Study of National Military Memorial Heritage: A Case Study of the Orenburg Region

Abstract

The article reviews sources for studying cultural politics in the sphere of preservation of military memorial heritage. Lack of scientific works on this topic makes the study significant. Its object is national military memorial heritage as a phenomenon of Russian culture, its subject is historical and cultural sources necessary for a comprehensive analysis of the development of Russian military memorial space in pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet eras. The authors have studied archival sources (16 fonds in 3 state archives); periodical press of the Orenburg region (4 regional and 56 district newspapers); unpublished and published memoirs, private correspondence; unpublished actual filing data of Federal, regional and local authorities (from late 1980s to present day); cumulated publications of monuments of the military memorial heritage of the Orenburg region (compiled by one of the authors in 2008-2015); legislative materials, regulations, and organizational/management acts; brochures, booklets, and memos published by library and Museum institutions within the framework of regional studies and consisting, as a rule, of eyewitness memoirs and periodicals (for the period 1999-2018); narrative sources; Internet resources. After many years of research the authors feel the impossibility of systematic study of the military memorial heritage of the Russian regions solely on archival materials due to lack of necessary information in the archival institutions and contend the need to draw on a wider range of sources for scientific analysis of the most important areas of the state cultural policy in the field of preservation of monuments and memorials dedicated to the fallen defenders of the Fatherland.

Keywords

Source base, cultural policy, military memorial heritage, memorable places and buildings, military history, fallen in defense of the Fatherland.

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About authors

Rubin Vladimir Aleksandrovich, PhD in History, associate professor, Orenburg State Agrarian University, department of history and philosophy, assistant professor, Committee on Archives of the Orenburg Region, chairman, Orenburg, Russian Federation, +7-353-277-15-20, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Spiridonova Ekaterina Vladimirovna, PhD in Physics and Mathematics, associate professor, Orenburg State University, department of applied mathematics, assistant professor, Orenburg, Russian Federation, +7-353-277-15-20, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Grant information

The article was prepared with the financial support of the Government of the Orenburg region (decree of the Governor of the Orenburg region of 09.06.2015 no. 405-UK “On state support of young scientists in the Orenburg region in 2015”).

Submitted 24.10.2018, published (for citation):

RUBIN, V. A., SPIRIDONOVA, E. V. Opyt istochnikovedcheskogo issledovaniya otechestvennogo voenno-memorial'nogo naslediya. Na primere Orenburgskoi oblasti [Source Study of National Military Memorial Heritage: A Case Study of the Orenburg Region. In Russ.]. IN: Vestnik arhivista / Herald of an Archivist, 2019, no. 2, pp. 417-427. doi 10.28995/2073-0101-2019-2-417-427