TO THE QUESTION OF STUDY OF THE FEATURES OF THE OBJECT "STONE MILL" SETTLEMENT IN THE PROCESS OF TRAINING BACHELORS-DESIGNERS IN KFU

Abstract

Nowadays, the problem of preserving historical and cultural landscapes as objects of memory for the development of the Republic of Tatarstan and the development of domestic tourism remains an urgent and very important issue. At the Department of Design and National Arts of the KFU, has been carried out work in aim to include in the training program for students-designers the study of the features of the preserved and lost cultural and historical objects of the Republic. Students conduct historical, environmental, geological research, deal with the issues of reconstruction and threedimensional visualization of the preserved and lost historical and cultural monuments. The cultural and historical landscape that has been lost, the “Stone Mill” settlement, located in the Vysokogorsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan, can be considered as one of these sites. On the territory of this settlement at the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries there was a milling production of merchants Suslovs. The article presents the main provisions and the results of the work, that carried out by the students on the study of the features of the water area of “Blue Lakes”, and the history of the origin of the settlement and milling production using water mills. A description of the objects of the historical and cultural landscape of the “Stone Mill” settlement and a description of practical experience from conducting the first research of the remains of these objects to the project of their renovation and 3-D visualization are given.