Pokrovsky Nikolay N.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Leisure and Educational Practices of Novosibirsk Collectors of Transport Equipment During the Great Patriotic War
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2020-3-15
The public interest in technology during the Great Patriotic War has steadily increased over time. Based on historical monuments in private collections of Novosibirsk collectors, the article provides an overview of some types of transport equipment of this period; describes a number of their leisure and educational practices. This publication opens a series with the aim of introducing into the scientific circulation new sources on the history of social formations of lovers of ancient motor vehicles of Novosibirsk and the Novosibirsk Region. The objects of research include the selected items from private collections of retro technical equipment. The subject is leisure and educational practices of Novosibirsk collectors of motor vehicles. The methodological basis of the work is made up of the basic principles of modern historical science, as well as the method of synthesis of historical and technical study of an object. The scientific novelty of the work is related to the introduction into the scientific circulation of previously unpublished items from these collections. The article covers the period from the beginning of the 1930s to the end of the 1940s. Such a time frame is determined by the period of the Great Patriotic War along with the years preceding it in the formation of the domestic auto industry. The upper time line is marked by the beginning of a new post-war era. At this time, the old models of technology began to be replaced with the new, modern models. An approach and production ideology of the strategic direction of the domestic auto industry also changed.
Publishing: 29/06/2020
How to cite: Pokrovsky N.N. Leisure and Educational Practices of Novosibirsk Collectors of Transport Equipment During the Great Patriotic War // Historical Courier, 2020, No. 3 (11), pp. 152–161. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2020/ISTKURIER-2020-3-15.pdf
Links: Issue 3 2020
Keywords: history of technology; museology; oldtimers; technical heritage; socio-cultural space