Merchants' contribution to the cultural and educational infrastructure of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk

Abstract

The paper analyzes buildings with cultural and educational functions, built with the participation of merchants to identify their contribution to the architectural and cultural environment of the cities of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk. Research is determined by the lack of study of this topic, which prevents the identification of stages of historical and urban development of these cities and the cultural code of the region. Today, this leads to a depreciation of the historical significance of buildings.

The aim of this work is to identify the objects of cultural and educational infrastructure built on the initiative and at the expense of merchants. The analysis is given to their historical and architectural contributions. Research is based on bibliography, historical and archival documents, field study, and complex and systems analysis.

The paper confirms the participation of merchants in the emergence of buildings of cultural and educational institutions, which are of significant historical and cultural value. This, in turn, proves the main hypothesis of the merchant class influence on the formation of the architectural style of Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk.