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Alerte Héritage Has Digitize Archive and Provide Access to Virtual Database of historian G. Pugachenkova

The International Alerte Héritage Observatory has initiated a project to acquire her archive, digitize it, and provide free access to a virtual database called Galina Pugachenkova's Open Archive.

Bakai Ibraimov
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January 31, 2023
January 31, 2023
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Bakai Ibraimov

The International Alerte Héritage Observatory has initiated a project to acquire her archive, digitize it, and provide free access to a virtual database called Galina Pugachenkova's Open Archive.

CAAN reports that in May 2020, the archive of Galina Pugachenkova, a renowned archaeologist, architectural historian, and art historian of Central Asia, became available in digital form. The International Alerte Héritage Observatory has initiated a project to acquire her archive, digitize it, and provide free access to a virtual database called Galina Pugachenkova's Open Archive.

The database can be accessed by clicking here

Galina Anatolevna Pugachenkova (7 February 1915 – 18 February 2007) was a Soviet archaeologist and art historian regarded as a founder of Uzbek archaeology and central to the progression of archaeology and art history under Soviet regimes. Her work has contributed greatly to the register of surviving buildings in Central Asia and in many cases was the first register of traditional surviving buildings.

Pugachenkova was an outstanding academic and scholar, publishing over 700 works in six languages, on the fine and applied art of antique and medieval central Asia. Her career began in 1937 when she graduated from the Central Asian Industrial Institute. This led to a long career studying the development of ancient Asia, including monuments such as exploring places such as Holchayon, Dalvarzintepa and Bactria.

 

The project "Open archive: Galina Pugachenkova" presents almost the entire personal archive of the architect, archaeologist, art and architecture historian G.A. Pugachenkova.

The resource was created in 2018-2020 by the International Observatory Alerte Héritage within the framework of the emergency response programme of the Dutch prince Claus Foundation and the American Whiting Foundation, with the support of the Swiss Embassy in Uzbekistan.