Projects
Virtual 3D Museum
"Ancient art of Siberia"
The laboratory is working on the creation of the first fully functional 3D museum in Russia "Ancient Art of Siberia".
The advent of 3D technologies in the field of preservation and study of the archaeological heritage in the last decade has opened up completely new "revolutionary" opportunities. Remote work with artifacts freely placed on the Internet greatly increases the speed of exchange of scientific information. Virtual museums allow you to get acquainted with the collections "closed" in the museum depositories of the widest audience. Any visitor can examine the artifact in detail from all angles and in the smallest detail and take any measurements necessary for research. All models presented in the museum were created by the laboratory staff on the basis of high-precision three-dimensional non-contact scanning.
Unlike 3D galleries, where only the function of viewing models on-line is available, a fully functional museum provides an opportunity to download an artifact model to your personal computer, and then print a copy of it on a 3D printer. Each exhibit in the museum is provided with a detailed description and scientific bibliography. Virtual museums, as world practice shows, have a huge educational and research potential and actively contribute to the preservation of cultural heritage.
The project is implemented on the principles of open access and does not pursue commercial goals.
Toyanov Gorodok
Since 2015, the staff of the Laboratory has been conducting field studies of the settlement "Toyanov Gorodok". According to historical, archaeological and cartographic sources, this settlement correlates with the winter headquarters of the Eushta prince Toyan.
Officially, the settlement was considered completely destroyed, and only within the framework of the research project of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, we proved that the settlement still survived under a layer of garbage. Moreover, the excavations carried out in 2018 proved for the first time that not only the remains of a rich cultural layer, but also medieval buildings were preserved. In addition, during the 2019 field work carried out on the island, the summer yurts of the Tatars of Toyanov town were localized and bright archaeological finds were obtained.
In the University Grove next to the main building of TSU, ancient Turkic stone sculptures brought from Semirechye and Altai at the end of the 19th century have been standing for more than 120 years. Similar statues were erected in the expanses of Eurasia in the 6th-9th centuries. during the time of the Turkic Khaganates. These sculptures were dedicated to warrior heroes and noble people of their time.
However, many residents and guests of Tomsk do not know that the statues are archaeological works of art, which are over a thousand years old. This ignorance often leads to acts of vandalism - various drawings are applied to the statues, etc. A constructive change in the real situation was seen in the installation of an information plate, as well as the return to the grove of the brightest stone statue, which was broken in half in 1986 and had lain in the closed funds of the museum for about 30 years.
The Stone Guests from the Past project was carried out as part of the Third TSU Grant Competition and was aimed at creating a favorable campus environment for students and staff. For the sake of preserving the archaeological heritage, not only in the real, but also in the virtual world, the specialists of our laboratory created a 3D model of a Turkic statue, which everyone can now get acquainted with.