Activities of Cultural Institutions of the Crimean Region for the Protection of Monuments of the Great Patriotic War (1944–1991)

the article, based on a set of documents from the funds of the State Archive of the Republic of Crimea and taking into account the current historiography of the issue, considers the activities of cultural institutions of the Crimean region in the post-war period, aimed at monumental commemoration of the events of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. Special attention is paid to the activities of the Department of Culture of the Crimean Regional Council of Workers’ Deputies created in 1953 and the Crimean Museum of Local Lore subordinate to it (Simferopol) for the identification, accounting, certification, condition control, improvement, repair, as well as the construction of new monuments and memorials related to the events of the Great Patriotic War. The author concludes that during the period under review there was a horizontally built (all-Union – republican – regional) and periodically updated regulatory framework, as well as institutional interaction with other authorities and public organizations was organized. This contributed to a fairly effective preservation and constant increase in the number of memorial heritage sites until the mid-1980s.