About the project

Subject / Local studies/Local history editions
The digital encyclopaedia "Culture of the Leningrad Oblast". The science popular digital encyclopaedia "Culture of the Leningrad Oblast" is for general public: children, students, lecturers, employees of culture organizations and travel agencies, local historians, residents and guests of the Leningrad Oblast, for all who are interested in its culture in the past and present.

The encyclopaedia is based on three general principles. The edition has the humanitarian character. It is accentuated on presenting objects of the culture heritage and different types of the cultural activity of museums, libraries, archives, theatres, creative institutions and festivals . The special attention is given to poorly known topics: ethnic culture, religious life, toponyms, local history study. The cultural life of the 20th - the early 21th centuries is widely presented in the encyclopaedia.

References about towns, settlements and villages of the Leningrad Oblast are given in the historical and cultural perspective and they include description of history and culture monuments as well as profile organizations and institutions. There are 1160 articles in the encyclopaedia (about 60 author text sheets ). Besides the subject-event articles the encyclopaedia includes brief biographies of people who were closely related with culture of the Leningrad Oblast.
Personal materials are one quarter of the whole amount of the edition (280 biography articles).

The encyclopaedia includes 2312 illustrations which supplement articles and have the indissoluble connection with them. These are contemporary and archival photographs, painting and graphic art works. The cartographic materials section (135 positions) includes historical maps of the region as well as plan-maps of the modern administrative districts and main architectural ensembles (fortresses, monasteries, country estates).

1065 articles are accompanied by brief bibliographical reference lists. The bibliography for the encyclopaedia includes 2047 descriptions including about 700 references to the Internet resources. References to the Internet resources were firstly collected on such scale. The Internet resources were created and developed by the activity of organizations and the Leningrad Oblast enterprising inhabitants . These references enrich the pithy and designing sequence of the encyclopaedia. At that the encyclopaedia begin to function as the adjusted reference guide of the topical Internet-resources of the region.

The encyclopaedia is provided with well-developed search system based on directories: subject, object, alphabet, name, geography, bibliography, iconography.

The encyclopaedia is created by the collective of leading experts on the Leningrad Oblast history and culture.

The Chief editor of the encyclopaedia is Aleksandr Davidovich Margolis, a Doctor of History, the director-general of the Rescue Fund of Peterburg-Leningrad.

The Editorial board staff:
Tatiana Valentinovna Balt, the Head of the department of the State Support of Culture, Art, Amateur and Folk Arts of the Leningrad Oblast Committee for Culture;
Vladimir Borisovich Bogush, the Chairman of the Leningrad Oblast Committee for Culture;
Pyetr Anatolyevich Grinfeld, the director-general of the joint-stock company "Alt-Soft" Information & Communication Technologies;
Grigory Viktorovich Dvas, a vice-governor, the Chairman of the Leningrad Oblast Committee for Economic Development;
Zoya Vladimirovna Zheldina, the first assistant of the Chairman of the Leningrad Oblast Committee for Culture;
Aleksandr Valeryevich Kobak, the director of the International Fund named after D.S. Likhachev; Aleksandr Davidovich Margolis, the director-general of the Rescue Fund of Peterburg-Leningrad;
Mikhail Isayevich Milchik, a deputy director of St. Petersburg research institute "Spetsproektresavratsiya";
Mikhail Moiseyevich Mikhaylichenko, the Chairman of the Leningrad Oblast Committee for Information Policy and Telecommunication;
Olga Viktorovna Nabokina, a leading expert of the culture heritage objects state protection department of the Leningrad Oblast Committee for Culture;
Valery Pavlovich Serdyukov, the Governor of the Leningrad Oblast;
Yelena Viktorovna Strelkova, a deputy director of the Leningrad Oblast Children's Library;
Natalya Leonidovna Entelis, a vice-president of the musicologist-lecturers department of the International Music Figures Union;
Anatoly Dmitriyevich Yashkov, the Chairman of the Saint Peterburg and Leningrad Oblast Archive Committee.

The editorial council staff:
Olga Nikolayevna Ansberg, the Central State Archives of St. Petersburg (TsGIA SPb);
Tatiana Valentinovna Balt, the Head of the department of the State Support of Culture, Art, Amateur and Folk Arts of the Leningrad Oblast Committee for Culture;
Sergey Borisovich Yegorov, a senior teacher of the St. Petersburg State University;
Aleksandr Davidovich Margolis, the Chairman of the editorial council, the director-general of the Rescue Fund of Peterburg-Leningrad;
Tatiana Yevgenyevna Mersadikova, a vice-chairman of the editorial council, a lord high fixer of the joint-stock company "Alt-Soft" Information & Communication Technologies;
Konstantin Moiseyevich Plotkin, a leading expert of the Committee for the State Control, Using and Protection of the History and Culture Monuments of St. Petersburg;
Anton Yuryevich Chistyakov, a deputy of the encyclopaedia chief editor, a professor of the History faculty of the St. Petersburg State University.

The composite author:
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Abdullina,
Viktoria Gennadyevna Abramova,
Yuliya Vladimirovna Akchurina,
Anna Viktorovna Alisheva,
Olga Nikolayevna Ansberg (52 articles),
Irina Aleksandrovna Bazarov,
Andrey Yuryevich Barsukov,
Aleksadr Vitalyevich Bertash (100 articles),
Lyudmila Konstantinovna Blyudova (46 articles),
Ledmila Nikolayevna Voitsekhovich,
Dina Alekseyevna Gorb,
Natalya Vladimirovna Dmitriyeva,
Zinaida Stepanovna Dolgopolova,
Natalia Vladimirovna Dubenetskaya,
Sergey Borisovich Yegorov (125 articles),
Valentina Alekseyevna Yegorova,
Lyubov Borisovna Yegorova,
Aleksandr Donatovich Zhabarov,
Irina Nikolayevna Illarionova,
Valentina Andreyevna Karavayeva,
Irina Aleksandrovna Karpenko (55 articles),
Vladimir Ivanovich Kiselev,
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kozhevnikov,
Yelena Yuryevna Kotova,
Natalia Georgiyevna Krayeva,
Yury Nikolayavich Kruzhnov (52 articles),
Maya Sergeyevna Kurakina,
Aleksey Viktorivich Lanskoy,
Viktor Arkadyevich Lapin,
Mikhail Iosifovich Leykin,
Valentina Ivanovna Malisheva,
Aleksadr Davidovich Margolis (164 articles),
Sergey Nikolayevich Mikhaylov,
Yadviga Iiosifovna Mozelova,
Yelena Aleksandrovna Morozova,
Nina Vasilyevna Nazarova,
Oleg Vasilyevich Osipov,
Viktor fedorovich Panteleyev,
Mariya Petrovna Panfilova,
Yury Minayevich Piryutko (72 articles),
Konstantin Moiseyevich Plotkin (41 articles),
Tatiana Innokentyevna Polyakova,
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Popov ,
Aleksey Igorevich Razdorsky,
Irina Valeryevna Rozina,
Irina Petrovna Rizhkova,
Sergey Alekseyevich Ritov,
Galina Konstantinovna Timofeyeva,
Aleksandr Ivanovich Timchenko,
Anna Aleksandrovna Tripolskaya (57 articles),
Yevgeny Ivanovich trufanov,
Anita Yakovlevna Ustinova,
Angelina Borisovna Fedulova,
Yelena Aleksandrovna Frolova,
Olga Aleksandrovna Chekanova,
Anton Yuryevich Chistyakov (198 articles),
Mikhail Vitalyevich Shkarovsky (151 articles ),
Yelena Yevgenyevna Yakovleva, (number of articles is mentioned for authors written more then 40 articles).

The editors staff :
The Fund of Rescue of St. Petersburg-Leningrad, Aleksandr Davidovich Margolis, the chief editor;
Yevgenia Borisovna Bereslavskaya, a proof-reader;
Irina Mikhaylovna Kurdina, a co-ordinator;
Valentina Ivanovna Morozova, an administrator;
Tatiana Borisovna Pritikina , a typographer;
Olga Anatolyevna Ugryumova , a co-ordinator.

The project menagement, content forming, software and information providing of creating and presenting the digital encyclopaedia "Culture of the Leningrad Oblast" on the Internet and on CD is made by the joint-stock company "Alt-Soft" Information & Communication Technologies

altsoft@altsoft.spb.ru:
Pyetr Anatolyevich Grinfeld,
Anton Aleksandrovich Davidov,
Aleksandr Leonidovich Zabotin,
Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Konovalova,
Polina Mikhaylovna Konovalova,
Sergey Nikolayevich Kurshev,
Tatyana Yevgenyevna Mersadikova.

The content administration: altsoft@altsoft.spb.ru. Design: NUK "The Silver Age", Vladimir Vladimirovich Urzhumtsev.

The creation of the digital encyclopaedia "Culture of the Leningrad Oblast" is devoted to the 80th anniversary of the Leningrad Oblast.
The digital encyclopaedia "Culture of the Leningrad Oblast" is made according the order of the Government od the Leningrad Oblast and its profile committees: The Committee for Culture of the Leningrad Oblast :
the committee chairman - Vladimir Borisovich Bogush ,
a supervisor of the project – Natalia Konstantinovna Koroleva nataliaivanova@mail.ru;
the Committee for Information Policy and Telecommunication of the Leningrad Oblast : the chairman of the committee – Mikhail Moiseyevich Mikhailichenko, a supervisor of the project – Viktor Fedorovich Miroshov info@lenreg.ru.