Preservation and protection of archaeological heritage in the Irkutsk region in the 1960s and 1980s

The article discusses measures to preserve and protect the archaeological heritage in the Irkutsk region. In the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, important events took place in the field of preservation and protection. Based on the resolutions adopted in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the Law on the Protection and Use of Historical and Cultural Sites adopted in the late 1970s, a new system of preservation and protection of historical and cultural heritage is being formed. In the process of forming a new system, new state bodies for the protection of sites are being created. The main stages of the formation of the Center for the Preservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage are considered in chronological order. The protection measures taken by the executive branch to ensure the preservation of monuments are being studied. An important part of these events was the certification of historical and cultural sites, registration and state protection, and archaeological zoning. The article analyzes the activities of the first public organization for the protection of sites, as well as its interaction with representatives of the scientific sphere and the executive branch. The article examines the activities of the staff of the Laboratory of Archeology and Ethnography of Irkutsk State University named after Zhdanov (expeditions, participation in meetings of the Irkutsk branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Sites and Culture, work on the Collection of Historical and Cultural Sites, the publication of issues devoted to archaeological research, etc.). This work focuses on the condition of three well-known archaeological sites - the Malta site, the Glazkovsky necropolis, and the Shishkinkaya pisanitsa (petroglyphs). It is noted that the most intensive survey of the sits took place in the 1980s. The Sites Protection Production Group (later transformed into the Center for the Preservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage), with the participation of Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute and Irkutsk Pedagogical Institute, developed projects for the museification of these sites.

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