2026/3(46)

Contents

HISTORICAL RESEARCH

Filin P.

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, the search for the Northeast Passage and Russian maritime culture in the late 16th century

APPLIED RESEARCH

Bychkova O.

Role of popular science tourism infrastructure in the popularization and preservation of scientific and technical heritage

Zinovieva N.

Network culture in the context of two approaches to research issues

Kovbasyuk T.

Significant extension to an existing property on the example of the World Heritage site ‘White monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal

Kostina N.

Methodological approaches to working with the cultural heritage of the region in the context of the cultural and educational policy of modern Russia

Khilko N.

Objectification as a form of digital reconstruction of lost cultural heritage in the urban environment of tourist sites Western Siberia

INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

Kitov Yu., Egorova M.

Genesis and development of Evenki circle dances as a cultural phenomenon of historical and modern Yakutia

CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDIES

Kukhterin S., Yermolov E. 

Karbas of the 17th century. An Oransky find on the coast of Novaya Zemlya

Okorokov A.

40 years of the Marine Arctic Complex Expedition of the Heritage Institute

Seleznev A.

Shamanic ladder in the Muslim cemetery: to the semantics of the ornamented on-grave posts of the Tobol-Irtysh Tatars

Selezneva S.

Identification of immovable cultural heritage objects in Russia: conceptual, regulatory and regional aspects

HERITAGE PRESERVATION

Soloviev A., Berezina N.

International and foreign models for the preservation of immovable cultural heritage: a comparative legal and cultural analysis

Spivak D.

Cultural heritage in actual UNESCO strategy

MUSEOLOGY

Pleshchenko V.

The corporate museum as a tool for preserving the history and accumulating the business reputation of the company

Sarkisova E.

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.2025.42.91.027.

Izbachkov Yu.

Documents of the OGPU and NKVD as а source of information
about the culture of occult organizations

Abstract. Among the sources on the activities of occult organizations, interrogations, confrontations, and indictments in criminal and intelligence cases of the 1920s and 1930s are of particular importance. The OGPU and NKVD solved their specific tasks, but in their documents we find important details concerning occultists that are absent from other sources. Evaluating these materials from the point of view of various criteria, we can admit that the documents of the early and mid-1920s more objectively represent reality, although individual significant circumstances were revealed only in 1940. In general, the documents of the OGPU and NKVD allow us to create an idea of the reasons for the emergence of occult societies in Soviet Russia at that time.

Key words: paramasonic organizations, esoteric societies, Astromov-Kirichenko, Mebes, Belyustin, lodge Astrea, theosophists, intelligence agent, confrontation, indictment, Martinism, Rosicrucians, criminal evidence.

Izbachkov Yuri Sergeevich,
Applicant post-graduate student,
Likhachev Russian Research Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage (Moscow)
Email: strax5@list.ru

Published: The Heritage Institute Journal, 2025/3(42)

URL: http://nasledie-journal.ru/en/journals/774.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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