Contents

Introduction
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sergey Shchekotov-Alexandrov is an independent documentary photographer. He lives and works in Saint Petersburg. He specializes in shooting intangible and tangible culture, nature and everyday life, landscapes of the urban environment, museum institutions. Sergey is the author and curator of numerous mobile photo exhibitions in Russian regions. He runs the author’s channel on Zen “Kilometers of photographic roads”. Shchekotov-Alexandrov, a member of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, publishes his own E-books, where he includes his photographs. The books are published in Russian and English.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The Heritage Moment photo collection is a program of the S. I. Shchekotov – Alexandrov photography studio for photographing and popularizing outstanding cultural heritage and UNESCO sites in Russia and other countries by means of photographic creativity.

The program takes place in the following areas:

— publication of the books of the Heritage Moment cycle;

— publication of the books of the Photographing Cultural Heritage cycle;

— holding mobile photo exhibitions and photo conversaziones.

This photo book is the fourth in the Heritage Moment cycle.

It consists of three sections:

— Russian Historical and Cultural Heritage Monuments (two photo stories);

— Foreign Historical and Cultural Heritage Monuments (two photo stories);

— From the Photographer’s Archive (single photographs about cultural heritage based on materials from past photo exhibitions, published photo books and some new photographs).

This book includes the following information: conclusion, captions-comments to subsections, captions to individual photos, “From the history of the Heritage Moment photo project”.

THE FIRST SECTION

Russian Historical and Cultural Heritage Monuments photo stories

PHOTO STORY Old Demidovsky Plant Eco-Industrial Technopark, 2022

I had been planning a visit to this factory museum in Nizhny Tagil for a long time. So, during my last trip to the Sverdlovsk region in August 2022, I realized this desire.

I visited the places where I was born and grew up in the Sverdlovsk region. One of the places where I wanted to go is the former Demidovsky Metallurgical Plant. Today it is a factory museum of the history of mining machinery. It is known that Demidov manufacturers had more than 30