2026/2(45)
Contents
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Occupation Regime and
Nazi Criminals in the Krasnodar Region (1942-1943): An Analysis
of Eyewitness Testimonies
APPLIED RESEARCH
On the spread of stone architecture in the Arctic region. Construction
of a cathedral in the Sumskoy Fortress
Art project “My Contemporaries”: аxiological foundations
Traditional water transport
of the Amur basin
Authorial repetition and copy
in the creative practice of Vladimir painters of the 1980s - 1990s (based on the archive of GOSNIIR
Scientific Expertise Department)
Formation and development
of copyright in China: from doctrine to instruments of state cultural policy
HERITAGE PRESERVATION
Study of the X-ray of “Landscape. Pargolovo” by Fyodor Vasilyev
(the Radischev Art Museum, Saratov)
Cultural transmission mechanisms and modes in the context of historical development of the Stronsky artistic dynasty
Digital twin as an object of protection of lost heritage
Chukotka baidara: technology and the preservation of traditions. Experience building an Eskimo baidara in the village of Sireniki
in 2025
Historical practices and conceptual evolution in the conservation
of China's large archaeological sites
MUSEOLOGY
Tainitskaya Tower of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin: historical and architectural review
Mikhalskaya O., Chuvilkina Yu.
Contribution of collector Felix Evgenievich Vishnevsky to the development of Russian museum collections
Biblical scenes on an 18th century tiled stove of the Novodevichy convent in Moscow
Publ. 04/05/2026
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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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