TY - JOUR

T1 - Virtual reconstruction of the Ancient Russian fortress Koporye

AU - Borisov, Nikolay

AU - Smolin, Artem

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics. All rights reserved.

PY - 2017/2/16

Y1 - 2017/2/16

N2 - One of the major strategic tasks in Russia's northwest of the past centuries was the defense of the country's territories from enemy incursions coming from the West. In order to solve this task, a robust shield in the form of a system of fortresses was created between the 13th and 15th centuries. The system included such fortresses as Koporye, Yam, Korela, Oreshek, and others. In our age, these monuments have become an essential part of Russia's historic and cultural heritage and an important element of the tourism cluster "The Silver Ring of Russia." The Centre of Design and Multimedia at St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, jointly with the Department of History and the Faculty of Arts at St. Petersburg State University, working under a three-year grant from the Russian Foundation for Humanities Research (#12-01-12041), is implementing a multi-media information system "Ancient Fortresses of Russia's Northwest". Historically accurate virtual reconstruction of several fortresses as they existed during certain historic periods, done in such a way as to allow the future creation of virtual tours of these sites, has become the focus of this project's research. In the present paper, we describe the main phases and results of virtual reconstruction of the best-preserved fortress, Koporye.

AB - One of the major strategic tasks in Russia's northwest of the past centuries was the defense of the country's territories from enemy incursions coming from the West. In order to solve this task, a robust shield in the form of a system of fortresses was created between the 13th and 15th centuries. The system included such fortresses as Koporye, Yam, Korela, Oreshek, and others. In our age, these monuments have become an essential part of Russia's historic and cultural heritage and an important element of the tourism cluster "The Silver Ring of Russia." The Centre of Design and Multimedia at St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, jointly with the Department of History and the Faculty of Arts at St. Petersburg State University, working under a three-year grant from the Russian Foundation for Humanities Research (#12-01-12041), is implementing a multi-media information system "Ancient Fortresses of Russia's Northwest". Historically accurate virtual reconstruction of several fortresses as they existed during certain historic periods, done in such a way as to allow the future creation of virtual tours of these sites, has become the focus of this project's research. In the present paper, we describe the main phases and results of virtual reconstruction of the best-preserved fortress, Koporye.

KW - Cultural and historic heritage

KW - Information technologies

KW - Koporye

KW - Multimedia information system

KW - NRU ITMO

KW - Russian northwest

KW - SPbGU

KW - Virtual reconstruction

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85054122003&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Conference article

AN - SCOPUS:85054122003

VL - 3

SP - 147

EP - 152

JO - Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage

JF - Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage

SN - 1314-4006

T2 - 3rd International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, DiPP 2013

Y2 - 18 September 2013 through 21 September 2013

ER -