The Genesis of the Urban Culture of the Steppe of the Volga Region and Sociocultural Development of the Region

• Main Authors: Nadezhda V. Dulina, Igor' N. Naumov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sochi State University 2016-06-01
• Series: Bylye Gody
• Subjects: the Genesis of urban culture; sociocultural development; archaeological researches; medieval and modern cities
• Online Access: http://bg.sutr.ru/journals_n/1465041612.pdf

The article is devoted to the problems of the genesis of socio-historical processes of urban culture of the steppe of the Volga region, is based on historical documents, materials of scientific expeditions conducted in the lower Volga region encyclopedic scientists from the second half of the XVIII century, and the results of archaeological research here settlement sites. Based on the fact that the whole history of mankind is the history of the reference person of its economy, the authors believe that the analysis of the spaces of the modern city must be waged simultaneously in multiple coordinate systems – involving knowledge of scientific disciplines such as history and archeology, sociology, Economics etc. Attention is focused on the events in the Volga steppes of socio-economic and cultural-historical transformation, reflected in the distinctive dynamics of sociocultural development of the medieval (Khazar, the Golden Horde, Russian) and modern cities in the region. The authors come to the following conclusions: the city created (and covered by most) throughout the centuries (and even millennia) by many generations, carry a spatial-temporal characteristics and the variety of creative ideas that make them diverse, aesthetically balanced. The growth of these cities, like all living things, inevitably threatens the time, which naturally destroys some of their historical (and in fact – "root") part to "make room" for new construction. To the relentless dynamism of our era was not able to destroy formed for many generations the idea that is subordinated to the formation and development of each particular city, you should each time from a separate historical parts of the city (or temporal-spatial "fragments") to try to reproduce it in its entirety, as the unity and integrity, while maintaining its inherent identity.