Establishment of a Complex Database for the Study of Cultural Heritage Through the Reading and Analysis of the Traditional Architecture of Upper Kama

The Upper Kama Region, located north of the city of Perm in the Volga Federal DIstrict of Russia, represents a frontier territory between the East and the West and an important crossroad for trade. The numerous religious complexes and industrial settlements scattered throughout the entire territory, buildings of considerable architectural interest, are often left in poor conditions and in a state of neglect. The aim of the research is to implement integrated digital survey methodologies in order to create tools for the management and enhancement of the cultural heritage of the Upper Kama Region. The research, which takes palce in the three district of Usolye, Solikamsk and Cherdyn', was carried out thanks to the collaboration between the DAda Lab of the University of Pavia and the Perm National Research Polytechnic University - Scientific Board headed by Prof. Sandro Parrinello and Prof. Svetlana V. Maximova - and is still ongoing.