Elar has completed a project to digitize the archival businesses of the Sergiev Posad Museum-Reserve

2024: Completion of the digitization project archival businesses

Elar Corporation has completed a project to digitize the archival businesses of the Sergiev Posad Museum-Reserve - unique documents of the Commission for the Protection of Antiquities and Art of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, dating from 1918 to 1925, have been digitized. Elar announced this on April 23, 2025.

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Within the framework of the project, electronic copies were created for 84 production cases stored in the accounting department of museum funds and included in inventory No. 1. The Commission, with the work of which documents are associated, included prominent figures of science, clergy and art, the Commission was engaged in the creation of a museum based on the laurel collection of artistic and cultural values.

Digitized documents will be actively used by the museum staff for writing articles and references, as well as will keep the originals intact and provide more convenient access to information, - commented Alla Vladimirovna Varushkina, head of the accounting department of museum funds at SPMZ.

Immediately after the scan, the documents were indexed by case name and formed. PDFfiles A prerequisite is that only high-quality processed copies are transferred to the indexing stage, and with the help of special algorithms ones, the probability of errors during extraction is minimized. data

According to Alla Vladimirovna Varushkina, the digitization of archival businesses is an important step towards preserving cultural heritage and improving access to historical information for future generations.

2023: ElarScan delivery A2-600R

The domestic planetary scanner ElarSkan A2-600R put in the Sergiev Posad State Historical and Art Museum-Reserve. This was announced on April 5, 2023 by Elar.

The keeper of one of the collections Russian arts or, as academician D.S. Likhachev called it, "The Hermitage of Russian Culture," the museum was created on April 20, 1920 on the basis of artistic works of art by the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Later, the museum's funds included archaeological and local history collections, as well as the collection of the Moscow Museum of Folk Art Crafts. As of April 2023, the collection of the Sergiev Posad Museum-Reserve includes 200,000 exhibits, including icons, medieval manuscripts and old-printed books, monuments of facial and ornamental sewing, gold and silver, works of painting, graphics, folk and modern decorative and applied art.

At ElarSkan A2-600R, we plan to digitize the registration documents of the monastery property of the XVII-XX centuries, - said Konstantin Nikolaevich Morozov, head of the publication and marketing department of the Sergiev Posad State Historical and Art Museum-Reserve. - Among them there are the most valuable copies, for example, the Investment Books of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery of 1639, 1673; Inventory of the property of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery in 1641; Synodic 1679 and others. Electronic copies of documents will help optimize the internal work of the museum, as well as preserve dilapidated pages from damage that may occur during operation.