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War and cultural heritage: on the way to restoration. “The Novgorod phenomenon”
- Authors: Zubkova E.Y.1
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- Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 125-139
- Section: PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AND SPORTS
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2587-6090/article/view/294111
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22204/2587-8956-2025-120-01-125-139
- ID: 294111
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Exemplified by the ‘Novgorod phenomenon’, the paper studies the problem of restoration of cultural monuments lost and damaged during the Great Patriotic War. The restoration began in Novgorod before the war ended, namely, as soon as the city was cleared; it was a unique project to rebuild it from its ruins. Paradoxically, the war provided a chance to implement a promising idea of turning Novgorod into a reserve city; embodied in the General Layout developed under the leadership of Alexey Shchusev (1945). The pivotal change of the city development concept took place in the late 1940s, when, amidst general changes in the state, the Novgorod administration abandoned the idea of a historical and cultural reserve and returned to the pragmatic project of a socialist city as an administrative and industrial center.
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Elena Y. Zubkova
Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Email: elena.zubkova@mail.ru
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher, Head of the Center for Social History of Russia
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