In Nalchik will open the exhibition “Infrastructure of waiting”

On November 14, the exhibition “Infrastructure of Waiting” will start in Nalchik, the first mobile exposition of the research project “Archive of Heights” about the Soviet heritage of Elbrus. The site will be the Pavilion of Contemporary Art in the Park of the 100th anniversary of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic.

According to the organizers, visitors will be able to see real devices of physicists of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory, the first digitized newsreel of 1978, footage of the film “Vertical”, retro plates and books, Soviet modernism in modern and archival photographs, as well as decorations of Turniauz – mosaics and sketches of the monumental stele. The exhibition is organized by the Development Institute with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to experts in the field of cultural heritage and museum business, the project demonstrates the demand for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Soviet modernist architecture and science. Experts note that the digitization of archival newsreels and the involvement of scientific institutions in exhibition activities make the heritage of Elbrus accessible to a wide audience and create a basis for the development of cultural tourism in the region.

Earlier it was reported that the resorts of the North Caucasus will be presented at the Forum of tourist territories in Moscow.