2026/3(46)
Contents
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
APPLIED RESEARCH
Significant extension to an existing property on the example of the World Heritage site ‘White monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
Methodological approaches to working with the cultural heritage of the region in the context of the cultural and educational policy of modern Russia
Objectification as a form of digital reconstruction of lost cultural heritage in the urban environment of tourist sites Western Siberia
INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDIES
Karbas of the 17th century. An Oransky find on the coast of Novaya Zemlya
40 years of the Marine Arctic Complex Expedition of the Heritage Institute
Shamanic ladder in the Muslim cemetery: to the semantics of the ornamented on-grave posts of the Tobol-Irtysh Tatars
Identification of immovable cultural heritage objects in Russia: conceptual, regulatory and regional aspects
HERITAGE PRESERVATION
MUSEOLOGY
School as a center for the preservation of cultural heritage: from the experience of cultural and educational activities of school museums
Publ. 18/09/2026
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DOI 10.34685/HI.2024.85.56.005
Elchaninov A.
Indian Ocean. Russian geographical names
as objects of intangible cultural heritage
Abstract. The article was written as part of the 2024 state assignment. The Indian Ocean is located between four continents – Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica. Soviet exploration of the Indian Ocean began in 1946. Numerous underwater gorges, canyons, mountain peaks, etc. have been examined in detail and mapped. Many of them are named after Russian explorers and Soviet scientists, for example, the Afanasy Nikitin seamount, Academician I. P. Bardin Mountain, Academician D. I. Shcherbakov Mountain, the Obi trench, Vityaz, etc.
Key words: Indian Ocean, exploration and mapping, Russian geographical names, intangible heritage, seamount,s deep-water troughs.
Elchaninov Anatoly Ivanovich,
PhD in Geography, Head of the Center
for Cartography and Geoinformation Systems,
Likhachev Russian Research Institute
for Cultural and Natural Heritage (Moscow)
Email: aelchaninov@mail.ru
Published: The Heritage Institute Journal, 2024/4(39)
URL: http://nasledie-journal.ru/en/journals/707.html
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Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage
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Likhachev Russian Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage
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