Urban development practice versus the politics of memory in Irkutsk

Authors

  • Alexander Gimelshteyn Irkutsk State University
  • Irina Gimelshteyn Irkutsk National Research Technical University

Downloads

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/87.2742

Keywords:

toponymic landscape, housing construction, identity, marketing

Abstract

Large volumes of housing construction in Irkutsk create opportunities for expanding the godonymic space, that is, the totality of names of linear geographical objects officially fixed on the territory of the city, exercising the powers to name streets, alleys, squares, territories. However, in practice, developers with the tacit consent of local authority are sabotaging this.

How to Cite

Gimelshteyn, A., & Gimelshteyn, I. (2026). Urban development practice versus the politics of memory in Irkutsk. Project Baikal, 23(87). https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/87.2742

Published

2026-04-01

Issue

No. 87 (2026): residential complexes

Section

refereed articles

License

Copyright (c) 2026 Александр Гимельштейн, Ирина Гимельштейн

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

References

Brezhnev, L. I. (1981, February 23). Otchetnyi doklad Tsentralnogo Komiteta KPSS XXVI syezdu Kommunisticheskoi partii Sovetskogo Soyuza i ocherednye zadachi partii v oblasti vneshnei i vnutrennei politiki [The report of the Central Committee of the CPSU to the XXVI Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the next tasks of the party in the field of foreign and domestic policy]. Moscow: Pravda.

Ilyin, D. Yu., & Sidorova, E. G. (2022). Linguistic coding of objects of artificial nomination as a mechanism for forming the language space of a modern city. Sociolinguistic studies, 3(11), 72–85. DOI: 10.37892/2713-2951-3-11-72-85.

Malinova, O. Yu. (2018). Politics of memory as a branch of symbolic politics. In A. I. Miller & D. V. Efremenko (Eds.), Methodological issues of studying the politics of memory: Collection of scientific papers (pp. 27-54). Moscow; Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya.