Reconstruction of Manchurian positions during the second siege of Albazin fortress
https://doi.org/10.21285/2415-8739-2023-1-115-128
Abstract
Initially the authors using computer software verified data by parametric matching of very disparate data. This operation allowed them to radically expand the traditional idea of the general structure of the Albazin fortress completely destroyed by the Manchurians after its first short-term siege in the summer of 1685. Based on the experience and the developed methodology of factual processing of information data and the possibilities of computer reconstruction authors allow not only to restore the appearance of completely lost static buildings, but also to visualize the overall dynamics of hostilities. In other words, the authors have proposed a computer technology for retrospective of historical events. By integrating the generalized array of reference and control data used it becomes possible to obtain a sufficiently substantiated picture of the initial disposition of the units of the Manchurian army that took place at the initial stage of the second siege of Albazin fortress, which began in the summer of 1686. The research work carried out by the authors consisted in the actual comparison of documentary information borrowed from written archival and other sources with visual elements, both Russian and foreign graphic data. It allowed us to establish the objective location of Chinese siege batteries in firing positions, engineering structures, as well as the locations of field camps of the Manchurian expeditionary corps that arrived to Albazin. The use of computers for the complex integration of the total set of data makes it possible to get reliable historical reconstruction in terms of a synthetic scheme which has once again shown its sufficient effectiveness in the field of historical research.
About the Authors
A. Yu. Lokhov
The Marshal of the Soviet Union K.K. Rokossovsky Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aleksei Yu. Lokhov, Cand. Sci. (History), Associate Professor, Tactics Department
158, Lenin St., Blagoveshchensk 675021
I. E. Yeremin
Amur State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ilya E. Eremin, Dr. Sci. (Technical), Professor, Professor, Department of Information and Control Systems
21, Ignatevskoye Highway, Blagoveshchensk 675021
A. V. Natsvin
Amur State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aleksei V. Natsvin, Postgraduate, Department of Information and Control Systems
21, Ignatevskoye Highway, Blagoveshchensk 675021
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