Historical and Cultural Heritage Protection in the RSFSR and BSSR: Administration Practices, Financing, and Boundaries of Possibilities (Second Half of the 1960s — mid-1970s)
Journal: Territory Journal of Historical Research
Year: 2025

In the USSR in the second half of the 1960s the institutionalization of historical and cultural heritage protection intensified. Societies for the protection of monuments appeared in several Soviet republics, including Lithuania (1965), Kyrgyziya, Moldavia, Ukraine, Belarussia and Russia (1966). This article analyses the differences in the administrative and financial capacities of two republican structures — the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Monuments of History and Culture (VOOPIiK