Sambek Heights will digitize historical documents at Elar PlanScan

2024: Elar PlanScan Delivery

Sambek Heights will digitize historical documents at ELAR PlanScan. Elar announced this on January 14, 2025.

The Sambek Heights Museum, a large regional memorial complex and one of the largest in Russia, was erected in the Rostov Region near the village of Sambek in honor of Soviet soldiers.

The Donskoy Military History Museum, which is part of the Sambek Heights Museum, reveals the history of the Great Patriotic War with an emphasis on the events that took place in the Rostov Region. The museum actively uses multi-stage equipment, interactive maps, media arrays in its exhibitions. The domestic professional scanner ELAR PlanScan A2-600R will help museum employees create high-quality digital copies of documents of various formats that can be used both for exhibition activities and for accounting purposes. Copies can also be used for the operational work of researchers, help to treat primary sources carefully, including those that require special preservation.

The museum comments that it is planned to digitize the sheets of newspapers, including the period of occupation and the period of the Great Patriotic War, as well as individual rare publications.

ELAR PlanScan A2-600R is equipped with a book cradle that works in both flat and V-shaped modes, adjusts to the thickness of the binding, which will allow the operator to scan various stitched documents of large thickness. The modern camera allows you to receive high-quality images in format up to A2 +.