Analysis of historical processes in memorial places of the Tambov region, associated with well-known personalities from Russia using the technology of virtual modeling

 The main objective of the project is analysis of historical processes at the memorial sites of the Tambov Regin related to famous personalities from Russia. As a part of project's implementation, it is inteded to develop technologies for analyzing and processing information and creating virtual reconstructions of cultural and historical heritage sites of territories (memorial sites) associated with selected well-known personalities, including:

❑ technology of historical processes' analysis using the methods of system and retrospective analysis, mathematical modeling, and the fuzzy sets theory;

❑ technology of 3D modeling of cultural heritage objects for virtual reconstruction of historically significant local territories or municipalities;

❑ technology of creating an Internet information resource in order to provide access to information about the culturalhistorical heritage based on the methods of 3D modeling of spatially distributed objects;

❑ technology of creating a three-dimensional Virtual Museum of cultural heritage objects for virtual reconstruction of memorable sites implemented using an open source software platform - OpenSimulator 0.9.0.;

❑ implementation of the suggested technology on the example of a three-dimensional Virtual Museum of reconstructed of cultural and historical heritage objects associated with famous personalities from Russia on the example of the Tambov region:

◈ estate of the Satins family in the village of Ivanovka of the Uvarovskiy district associated with the work of a musician and a composer S.V. Rakhmaninov;
◈ estate of the Vernadskiys family in the village of Vernadovka of the Pichaevskiy district related to public and professional activity of the scientist V.I. Vernadskiy;
◈ estate of the Chicherins family in the village of Karaul of the the Inzhavinskiy district and the complex of buildings in the city of Tambov, related to life, scientific and social activity of the famous Russian lawyer B.N. Chicherin;
◈ complex of objects in the town of Kozlov (now Michurinsk) related to life and scientific work of the Russian scientist and biologist I.V. Michurin;
◈ industrial complexes of the "Nobel brothers Association" in Rasskazovskiy and Morshanskiy districts associated with production activities of the Nobel brothers – Alfred, Ludvig and Robert;
◈ architectural complexes in the village of Arzhenka of the Rasskazovsky district and in the city of Tambov associated with the presence and professional activity of a merchant of the 1st Guild, patron and benefactor M.V. Aseev.

Creation of a Virtual Museum is done on an open source software platform - OpenSimulator 0.9.0, representing a serverbased platform for 3D virtual worlds. Implementation of the proposed research will meet the shortage of scientific information in the following areas:

❑ analysis of historical processes' dynamics in particularly significant local territories of municipalities, including the history of their urban development;
❑ implementation of 3D modeling technology of cultural heritage objects for virtual reconstruction of historically significant territories of municipalities;
❑ implementation of technologies for creating an Internet resource in order to provide access to information about the cultural-historical heritage based on the on the methods of 3D modeling of spatially distributed objects;
❑ visualization of historical buildings of particularly significant sites associated with the famous personalities, their subsequent modifications and development up to the present time.

Visualization of the Museum will also be performed with the use of virtual reality glasses.

The results of the project are addressed to a wide range of professionals who use the technology and methods of analyzing historical processes and 3D visualization for a virtual reconstruction of cultural heritage objects. In particular, the results will be applied at Tambov State Technical University, Department of Education of Tambov region in the sphere of training professionals in historical, construction and information fields and in forming the culture of research in the field of history and urban development of the Tambov region with the use of information technologies and mathematical modeling. An online resource created within the project's scope is aimed at encouraging creative activity of young researchers in developing new approaches to economic and urban development tasks in the modern world.

The users of the project results are also schools and museum organizations. The results of the project are aimed on a wide range of Internet users, interested in Russian history. The research work on the topic of the project will be carried out on the basis of methods of system analysis, mathematical modeling and optimization, which will allow to perorm a comprehensive assessment of historical processes of memorial places associated with the of famous personalities of Russia.
In the future, the results of the project will serve as a prototype for similar research on cultural and historical heritage in other regions of Russia and foreign countries.