Open AccessModern architecture of the Russian Orthodox Church: problems of scientific research
Author(s) -
Alina Viktorovna Ukraintceva
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
urbanistika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2310-8673
DOI - 10.7256/2310-8673.2021.2.31821
Subject(s) - architecture , government (linguistics) , task (project management) , period (music) , sociology of scientific knowledge , sociology , political science , classics , history , social science , engineering , art , philosophy , archaeology , aesthetics , linguistics , systems engineering
The process of revival of the Russian Orthodox Church in the late XX – early XXI centuries is accompanied by significant changes in its sociopolitical status. The Church regained high public authority by reestablishing and strengthening relations with the government, which granted the right to such types of activity as educational, missionary, social, and charitable. The church construction, which was discontinued for over 70 years, led to the loss of succession in engineering design and absence of systematic scientific and engineering developments that are intended to meet the modern needs and demands in the area of design of churches. These factors determine the heightened scientific interest to this topic. The goal of this research consists in determination of trends and problems in the scientific studies dedicated to the modern architecture of the Orthodox Church. The authors set the task to analyze, systematize and characterize the range of scientific publications written by the Russian scholars on the modern architecture of the Orthodox Church. This article considers the results of national scientific research (dissertations, scientific articles) on the modern architecture of the Orthodox Church that were published over the period from 1990 to the present.