G. A. Kubrina’s efforts to preservation of the historical-cultural heritage of rural territories if Altai krai in the context of development of regional study movement and cooperation with the scientific community in the years 1990–2020ths (the history of projects on catalogization of rustic architecture, development of «the ethnographic village», etc.)

G. A. Kubrina’s efforts to discovering and preservation of the historical-cultural heritage of Altai krai made it possible to analyze in this article the experience of close cooperation between regional study civic movement, scientific community and government agencies during the years 1990–2020ths. The full-scale characteristic is given to the regional study non-governmental organization in the years 1990ths, first of all, Altai krai regional study association and its co-operative activities with scientific production center Nasledie. The article describes the realized and unrealized projects on study and preservation of historical-cultural heritage of rural territories, including the unfinished project of district catalogization of rustic and commercial-industrial architecture (the years 1995–1997ths), the project of development of «the ethnographic village» in the years 2014–2016. G. A. Kubrina’s personal contribution into preservation of a number of monuments is shown.

Localization of deformation and its effects on power-law singularity preceding catastrophic rupture in rocks

Three distinct length scales are involved in the deformation evolution and catastrophic rupture of heterogeneous rocks in general: two essential ones are the specimen size macroscopically and the grain size at micro-scale respectively, the other is the emerging localized band of deformation and damage. The band initiates almost nearby the peak load, and the rupture eventually occurs afterwards within the localized band. In this paper, we report that with the evolution of concentrated high strain and damage in the localized band, a power-law singularity emerges within the localized band preceding the eventual rupture. The localization of deformation imposes a spatial non-uniqueness on the power-law singularity, and then leads to a trans-scale characteristic of the power-law singularity. Based on this characteristic, it is demonstrated that the singularity presented by the global response of a whole specimen comes from the singularity of local response in the localized band. The localization and the power-law singularity are associated precursory events, spatially and temporally, respectively, before macroscopic rupture. In particular, based on the power-law singularity exhibited in the zonal areas near or across the rupture surface, a prediction of the occurrence time of catastrophic rupture can be made accordingly. This provides a practically helpful approach to the prediction of rupture, merely by means of monitoring the zonal areas adjacent to the localized band.

Faces of Modernity in the Architecture of the Peronist State, 1943–1955

Within the context of Peronist expectations regarding culture, the article examines three cases of architectural and urban projects that displayed various kinds of articulation in terms of promotional policies, state institutions, intervening technology, the urban aspects involved, and the architectural aesthetics proposed. The works are interpreted—with respect to their aesthetic forms and images and the political content they transmit—as materializations of the new order envisaged by Peronism. Each of the case studies highlights different visualizations or aspects of this new order. In conceptual terms, all of the characteristics manifested by Peronist cultural production were also observable in the projects of inter-war dictatorships, especially those of Italian fascism. Clearly, given the period in which Peronism came to power, it is anachronistic to locate the architectural programmes which it hosted within the political categories of ‘inter-war dictatorship’ or even ‘fascism’. Nevertheless, seen through the lens of these two categories, it can be shown that the ethos of Peronism falls within the framework of the fascist era, due to its promotion of grandiose visionary projects for national renewal expressed through the transformation of the built environment on a scale characteristic of the two fascist regimes. Such projects mythically elevated Perón and Eva Perón to the level of leaders of the Argentinian people, whom they both saw as an organic entity, socially harmonious, rooted in the history of the nation and, in international terms, decidedly placed the nation on the road to the “third position” pioneered by fascist movements before 1945 in which tradition and modernity were reconciled in a form of modernism termed by Roger Griffin ‘rooted modernism’.