Members of the Old Tomsk Club discussed “The Wooden Fairy Tale of Russia” project

The meeting of the Old Tomsk Club of Regional Studies focused on “The Wooden Fairy Tale of Russia” project was held on March 11 at the Department of History and Regional Studies of the Pushkin Tomsk Regional Universal Research Library.

Specialists of the Tomsk Regional Center of the Presidential Library told attendees about “The Wooden Fairy Tale of Russia: From the Irtysh to the Ob” interregional Internet project, which was launched by the Pushkin Tomsk Regional Library. Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tyumen Regions and Altai Territory teamed up to take part in the project, which was presented on December 4, 2018. The materials, which have been collected as part of the project, highlight the main stylistic features of Tomsk wooden architecture, its types, and include photographs and descriptions of houses and the bibliography.

The purpose of the project is not only to show the beauty and uniqueness of wooden architecture, but also to tell about people who created wooden masterpieces, draw public attention to the problem of preservation of monuments of wooden architecture, and popularize it through the efforts of regional historians, students, volunteers, and public figures.

Attendees were actively involved in the discussion and shared their exciting stories about the construction of individual monuments, fates of their creators and the problems of preservation of wooden architecture in Tomsk Region.

The region is in the spotlight of “Tomsk Region: Pages of History” collection, which is available on the portal of the Presidential Library. It includes essays, statistics and cartographic materials, archival documents of the late 19th - early 20th c., which shed light on demographic, geographic, socio-economic, socio-political and other aspects of the history of Tomsk Region. The current statute of the region is available too.

Based on the materials of http://www.lib.tomsk.ru/ portal.