Problems and perspectives of preservation of wooden architecture monuments in the Kostroma region

• Main Author: Pilyak Sergey Aleksandrovich
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU) 2014-07-01
• Series: Vestnik MGSU
• Subjects: architecture; Federal Target Program «Culture of Russia»; cultural heritage; restoration of monuments; wooden architecture; Kostroma Museum
• Online Access: http://vestnikmgsu.ru/files/archive/issues/2014/6/ru/3.pdf

Wooden folk architecture is a unique layer of world cultural heritage. Over a period of one and a half centuries of research of wooden architecture heritage in Russia different forms of monuments preservation were worked out. The most effective of them is creation of wooden architecture museums out in the open. The article considers the activities of the Kostroma Museum of wooden architecture for preservation of landmarks under the Federal target program «Culture of Russia». The Museum was created in order to preserve the irrecoverable loss of monuments of wooden architecture of the Kostroma region. The objects of wooden architecture require regular attention of restorers with the purpose of maintenance of monuments in the standard condition, timely restoration and conservation activities. The support of the Federal target program «Culture of Russia» has provided a series of repair-restoration, project and research works. The museumification of monuments as a large regional network, when creating sufficient transport and tourist infrastructure, would enrich the tourist and cultural map of the Kostroma region. The author sets out the prerequisites for creating the Program for the preservation of monuments of wooden architecture, examples of similar programs in force in other regions of the Russian Federation.