Legal and urban planning dynamics of local cultures in Russia Authors Irina Savchenko Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/88.2782 Published 2026-06-12 Issue No. 88 (2026): local cultures Section refereed articles License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. How to Cite Savchenko, I. (2026). Legal and urban planning dynamics of local cultures in Russia. Project Baikal, 23(88), 50-55. https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/88.2782 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver AMA Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: local cultures, civilization state, urban architecture, cultural policy, ethno-confessional dynamics Abstract In the development of the Russian civilization state, local cultures have traditionally been identified and interpreted in an ethno-religious context – in the field of law, literature, and society as a whole. Today, this trend continues and is clearly evident in urban planning practices. In these practices, the trend becomes particularly illustrative and convincing when creating and perceiving religious buildings that present local cultures in the architecture of a modern city. Such cultures often overcome the barriers of locality through the realization of their creative and aesthetic potential. References Dyakin, V. S. (1998). Nacional’nyj vopros vo vnutrennej politike carizma (XIX – nachalo XX vv.) [The national question in the internal policy of tsarism (XIX – early XX centuries)]. St. Petersburg: Liss. Florensky, P. A. (1996). Zapiska o hristianstve i kul’ture [A note on Christianity and culture]. In Sochineniya v 4-h tt. [Essays in 4 volumes] (Vol. 2, pp. 547-559). Moscow: Mysl’. Gorban, V. S., & Malikov, S. V. (2025). Formation of a holistic picture of Russian history: Synthesis of archeology, historiography and humanitarian thought. Gosudarstvo i pravo, (12), 203-206. Ilyin, S. A. (2009). Russian Orthodox Church and “Jewish question” in Russian Empire. Tomsk State University Journal, (3), 215-220. Kukeev, A. G. (2011). Towards a problem of revival of the Kalmyk Buddhism at the present stage. Nauchnaya mysl’ Kavkaza [Scientific thought of the Caucasus], (1-2(65)), 123-126. Myakshev, A. P. (2020). The collapse of the USSR and the creation of a new system of interethnic relations in the Russian Federation in the 1990s. Izvestiya of Saratov University. History International relations, 20(1), 27-33. Nicolis, G., & Prigogine, I. (2014). Exploring Complexity. An Introduction (V. F. Pastushenko, Trans.) (2nd ed.). Moscow: URSS, Lenand. “Ob ukreplenii nachal veroterpimosti”. Ukaz ot 17 aprelya 1905 goda [“On strengthening the principles of religious tolerance”. Decree of April 17, 1905]. (1905, April 17). Sobranie uzakonenij i rasporyazhenij Pravitel’stva [Collection of laws and orders of the Government], (63(1)), article 526, 710-712). St. Petersburg. Retrieved March 10, 2026, from https://rusneb.ru/catalog/000199_000009_02000000765/?ysclid=mlr6p0t3ad5507014 Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossijskoj imperii. Sobranie 1-e [The Complete Collection of laws of the Russian Empire. Meeting 1]. (1830). St. Petersburg: Printing House of the 2nd Department of His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancellery. Retrieved March 5, 2026, from https://bigenc.ru/b/o-terpimosti-vsekh-veroispo-518e70 Savchenko, I. A. (2024). The dichotomy of culture and civilization in Turkish sociology. The Digital Scholar: Philosopher’s Lab, 7(3), 137-148. Savenkov, A. N. (2024). Filosofiya prava i stanovlenie rossijskogo gosudarstva-civilizacii [Philosophy of law and the formation of the Russian civilization state]. Moscow: Nauka. Tsyrempilov, N. V. (2014). When did Russia recognize Buddhism? In pursuit of 1741 Decree by Empress Elizaveta Petrovna officially recognizing of Buddhism by the Russian authorities]. Humanitarian Vector. Series History, Political Sciences, 3(39), 96-109. Vellansky, D. M. (1836). Osnovnoe nachertanie obshchej i chastnoj fiziologii, ili fiziki organicheskogo mira [The basic outline of general and private physiology, or physics of the organic world]. St. Petersburg: Guttenbergova tipografiya. Retrieved from https://rusneb.ru/catalog/000199_000009_003571121/ Zhukov, V. I. (2025). Civilization: From hypotheses, legends and epics to legal certainty. RUDN Journal of Russian History, 24(2), 249-263.