Bertosh, A. A. INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE SOVIET TOURISM SYSTEM IN THE KOLA NORTH. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2021;43(2):55–60. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2021.584


Russian history

INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE SOVIET TOURISM SYSTEM IN THE KOLA NORTH

Bertosh
A. A. 		Barents Centre of the Humanities – the Branch of the Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences”
Keywords:
Kola North
tourist and excursion activities
railway tourism
tourist traffic
tourist routes		 Summary: In the article are examined the processes of the formation of tourism in the Kola North in the first postrevolutionary decades. The novelty of the research lies in the analysis of tourist and excursion activities on the territory of the region in the 1920s – first half of the 1930s, carried out on the basis of archival and published sources, and allowing to identify the features of this phenomenon in the specified period, to determine the main directions and chronological stages of its development.The relevance of the article is determined by the need to study the Soviet experience in organizing tourism, which makes it possible to compare it with modern practices implemented in conditions when the tourist and recreational sphere is recognized as one of the priority areas of socio-economic development of the Murmansk region. During the analyzing period, the state sought to involve participants in tourism activities in solving political and propaganda and applied (exploration of minerals, studying remote areas, exchange of production experience, etc.) tasks. Various combinations of excursion and educational, travel and mass amateur tourism are most widespread in the Kola North. In the first half of the 1920s, the Murmansk Railway began systematic work on the formation of a tourist destination in the region. The regional system of tourist and excursion activities was formed by the mid-1930s, which was largely the result of the work of local structures of the Society of Proletarian Tourism and Excursions.



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