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GEOINFORMATION SYSTEM “THE PROTECTION OF RUSSIAN HISTORICAL- 
CULTURAL HERITAGE ON THE EXAMPLE OF SVERDLOVKS OBLAST” 
Z. V. Pushchina, U.P. Litvinenko 
The Ural regional geoinformation center “Uralgeoinform”, 620078 Ekaterinburg, Studencheskaya 
st., 51, Russia - ugi@vimkom.ru 
KEY WORDS: Geoinformational system, heritage, 3D-modeling, monuments, digital achieve. 
ABSTRACT: 
This manuscripts contains the description of the 3-years project made by the Ural Regional Center of Geoinformation 
“Uralgeoinform” and makes only the brief review of the project that makes possible the protection of the objects of historical and 
cultural heritage in Sverdlovsk region. 
Modem state of collection and storing of materials on monuments of historical-cultural heritage (HCH) is characterized by 
the variety of documents used for establishing of archives, registries and accounting documents. Services for information accounting 
and storing is spending much time for preparation and issuing of necessary materials both to customers and own departments 
including executives (agreement-legislative, inspector, information-analytical, rehabilitating, branch of architectural monuments, 
accounting). The materials used by these services are rather various: text documentation, historical records, technical passports, 
layouts of land sites, floor plans, results of stereophotogrammetric survey (digital models of facades, drawings of measurements), 
photo-materials and so o n. With the increase of information flow it becomes more and more complicated to carry out accounting, 
storing, issuing and joint application by various services and customers. The development of modem technologies allows to optimize 
joint work of services, that become an impulse for establishment the basis for a concept of geoinformational system “Historical- 
cultural heritage of Sverdlovsk oblast” (abbreviation GIS HCH SO). 
INTRODUCTION: 
The aim of the project is solution of the tasks of state protection 
of objects of immovable historical-cultural heritage of 
Sverdlovsk oblast. 
GIS HCH SO is a geoinformational system of a state body of 
protection, directed on collecting, storing and application of 
information on the objects of historical-cultural heritage and 
their territories, and also the possibility of quick and effective 
monitoring and analysis of obtained information. 
The main task of the project is to establish an open 
geoinformational system characterizing the state of objects of 
HCH SO. 
Subdivisions of state bodies of protection and use of 
monuments of history and culture should have the possibility of 
operative reaction on demands from the side of external 
services, activity of which concerns the questions of rent, 
insurance and use of monuments. In connection with this 
question GIS must include a block of automation of protection- 
rent activity. It is a complex task including development and 
introducing of a system of automated document circulation 
between subdivisions and the authority of the body of 
monuments protection, and also a module of complex analysis 
interesting monuments among the fine arts of the ancient 
population of this territory. 
The specialists from the Ural Regional center of geoinformation 
“Uralgeoinform” within 3 years develop the project that allows 
to automate the processes of data using, saving and processing. 
Such data is collected from documental funds of the Sverdlovsk 
regional state cultural institution. Today the following 
technologies were developed: 
1. The technologies of fund transmission to 
electronic form. 
2. The methods of electronic achieve saving and 
using. 
3. The bank of different cartographic materials. 
4. The spatial co-ordination and conjunction of the 
objects of the cultural-historical heritage. 
5. the technology of creating the historical- 
architectural plans 
6. the projects of protected zones with the help of 
geoinformational technologies and 3D-modeling. 
The following steps of creating electronic achieve are expected: 
• preliminary classification of the 
organization documental funds over the 
carries and types of information along with 
the choice of the technology for scanning 
and hardware. 
allowing to carry out specialized requests to thematic data bases 
and generate information-analytical reports of various content 
1. Structure of GIS HCH SO 
1.1. Electronic achieve. 
Fourteen historical cities, about 3000 historical, archeological 
and architectural monuments are placed on the territory of 
Sverdlovsk oblast. All of them are protected by federal, regional 
and local (municipal) power. The Ural rock paintings (The 
Neiva river, Kapova and Ignatievka caves) are the most 
The fund consists of: 
• over 10000 documents on the paper media 
(technical and accounting passports, 
historical references, pictures), 
• over 1000 materials of 
stereophotogrammetric survey 
(diapositives, the plans of 
stereophotogrammetric survey of 
monument facade’s and interior’s), plans, 
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