Volga lights № 27 The cultural layer (1990)

A solemn event on the occasion of the opening after the reconstruction of the Saratov regional Museum of local lore.

Performance of the choir.

People climb the main staircase of the Museum.

Head of the regional Department of culture Kurganov presents the Museum employees with flowers and gifts.

The participants applauded.

Visitors in the halls of the Museum.

View of the Volga coast, where one of the oldest cities of the Golden Horde Uvek was located (top).

Archaeologist V. G. Mironov talks about Uvek as one of the few remaining Golden Horde cities in the city, about urban development in its place and the inability to conduct archaeological excavations, accuses representatives of the Department of culture of depriving Uvek of the status of historical and archaeological value, tells the story of Uvek (synchronously).

Types of development on the site of Uvek.

Archaeological finds in the exposition of the local history Museum.

Coins found in Uvek.

Mironov demonstrates the blurred cultural layer, extracts from it the remains of ancient pottery and building bricks, and talks about the ceramic remains found at this place (synchronously).

Mironov shows the remains of the Foundation found in the area of development.

Remains of an ancient Foundation.

View of the territory where Uvek was located.

Photo of members of the archival Commission who studied Uvek in the 19th century.

Titles of collections of articles about archaeological research at the site of Uvek, published in Saratov in the 19th century.

Drawings depicting the inhabitants of Uvek, made on the basis of archaeological finds.

Students on a tour of the local history Museum.

View of the main staircase of the Museum, visitors on the stairs.

Mironov talks about repeatedly raising the issue of recognizing Uvek as a historical monument of Union significance, setting the boundaries of the cultural zone, solving the issue of creating an archaeological reserve for stationary excavations, the contribution of the Golden Horde to the history and culture of our state, and the role of excavations in Uvek for studying history (synchronously).

Panorama of the territory of Uvek.

Panorama of private houses on the historical territory.

Mironov tells about two ancient burial grounds destroyed during the construction of residential buildings, about a multi-meter cultural layer (synchronously).

An elderly woman walks down the street, a panorama of a wooden house.

Mironov talks about the need to know your past for the prospects of your own development (synchronously).

The girl looks at the exposition of the local history Museum, the girl's face.