Soviet Heritage(scape) in Sillamäe: Documenting the Potential in an Emerging Tourism Destination

Autor: Saara Mildeberg, Jaanika Vider
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Societies, Vol 12, Iss 5, p 127 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2075-4698
DOI: 10.3390/soc12050127
Popis: In 2014, the National Heritage Board of Estonia began the procedure for declaring the town centre of the former Soviet secret uranium town of Sillamäe in Northeast Estonia a heritage conservation area. The process is expected to be finalised in 2023, making it the first area where Soviet architecture would be under protection in Estonia. By approaching the town theoretically and methodologically as a heritagescape where components of tangible landscape are used to create a distinct place of the past, looking at how the town’s official development policy relates to the existing representations of the past in the town’s memory institutions, and interviewing local stakeholders, this article provides a broader and more nuanced understanding of Sillamäe and its tourism potential. Sillamäe as heritagescape offers tourists the chance to experience a curated version of the Soviet era and contemplate on the legacy of nuclear industry, while remaining in the safety of a resort town in the periphery of the European Union.
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