Interaction With a Memorial Landscape as a Communicative Practice

The article presents the main statistical results of surveys conducted in the summer of 2023 on the territory of the Chelyabinsk State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve “Arkaim”. Exploring the forms of materialization of different types of identity, a team of scientists focused on the specifics of the interaction of visitors with a large object, which is a memorial landscape: a significant area of steppe space, adapted to meet the various needs and interests of visitors, focused on “meeting with antiquity”, interpreted as historical heritage, and as an “energy center”. By communicative practice (following R. T. Craig), the article understands ordered interaction that has a certain cultural frame (“cultural concept of communication”, according to Craig). A survey of visitors (N=443) made it possible to answer a number of research questions related to visiting Arkaim as a communicative practice: 1) the gender and age characteristics of visitors were determined; 2) the main features of organizing a trip to Arkaim have been established; 3) the motivation for coming to the museum-reserve was identified; 4)the general structure of visitor activity during a visit to the monument was determined. The results obtained are aimed, on the one hand, at clarifying ideas about the development of memorial landscapes and the specifics of the interaction of tourists with large spatial objects, and on the other hand, at obtaining scientifically based information about the connection between tourist activity and motivation. Thestudy will make it possible to make adjustments to the strategies of the actors responsible for the development of this territory.