Forgotten past of invisible present: the history of sluicing Moscow River as the axis forming urban environment

Abstract. In this article on the example of the history of sluicing Moscow River in XIX - XX centuries hydroengineering structures are shown as a special type of extentional (linear) objects of cultural and natural heritage, which preservation is complicated by modern technological changes of the urban environment .

Key words: material culture, historic waterways, the history of Moscow, shipping to Russia, the history of waterworks, hydroengineering structures.

Okorokov Alexandr Vasilievich,
Dr. in History,
Russian Institute for Cultural Research (Moscow),
e-mail: riku@dol.ru

Founder
Likhachev
Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural
Heritage

Publisher
Likhachev
Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural
Heritage

Frequency
4 issues per year

Published
online only

Certificate
of the mass
information media
registration:
Эл. № ФС77-59205,
date: 03.09.2014

институт культурного

и природного наследия

имени Д.С.Лихачёва,

2014-2025.

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