House of a Rural Migrant: Three-dimensional Modeling and Memory of Post-war Migrations to the Kaliningrad Region

Abstract

One of the main elements of the historical memory of Kaliningraders is the settlement of the region by Soviet people after the Second World War. The article shows the possibility of using virtual modeling to preserve the memory of the migration policy of the Soviet era, which is significant for separate regions and the entire state. Drawing on the example of the Kaliningrad region, a detailed description of 3D-reconstruction of the dwelling house – most important element of the rural settler’s life is given. The problems of searching and using in the course of modeling archival, oral, material, visual and other historical sources both in the field of settling and in places of removal are considered. The difficulties that have arisen during the virtual reconstruction of individual items of the post-war Soviet everyday life are characterized.