The development and preservation of the historical buildings of the villages of the Podporozhsky district on the example of the village of Kurpovo

This authors studied the monuments of wooden architecture of Podporozhye, Leningrad region, preserved in their original places. The article examines the characteristics of the historical territory of the village of Kurpovo in the Vazhinsky urban settlement of the Leningrad region, known for the location of a unique wooden architecture object here, the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in the Vazhinsky churchyard. This study is aimed at studying not only individual monuments, but also their historically developed environment. The article examines the stages of formation of the village of Kurpovo, the features and characteristics of the historical landscape (natural and man-made), reveals the valuable historical buildings of the village with the definition of morphotypes and compositional analysis. The object of the study is the historically developed wooden building in the village of Kurpovo, Podporozhsky district, from the 17th century to the first half of the 20th century (including objects of religious wooden architecture, residential and outbuildings). The authors proceeded to the analysis of historical, archival and bibliographic materials, urban planning, regulatory, social, natural, recreational and tourist conditions of the Podporozhsky district and its territories; conducted field and desk studies of the development of the village of Kurpovo. As a result, based on the methodology for classifying historical and cultural territories as cultural heritage sites, the requirements of urban planning of Kurpovo village are proposed; general regulation of cultural heritages sites depending on their historical, cultural, urban planning, landscape features is also sketched. The authors of the article propose requirements for new buildings construction within heritage sites that allow preserving the valuable characteristics of the cultural landscape of the village of Kurpovo. The results of the article can be used to create projects for the restoration of wooden architecture in Kurpovo village Podporozhsky district; when creating projects for the protection of historical territories or assigning the status of a landmark to Kurpovo village; as well as when choosing methods for the development and preservation of historical settlements.