Urban construction and architectureUrban construction and architecture2542-01512782-2109Eco-vector10141910.17673/Vestnik.2023.01.18Research ArticleQuestion of creating the historical center of Togliatti: psychological prerequisites and project practice of preserving the memory of a placeSolodilovMikhail V.<p>PhD in Architecture, Associate Professor of the Design Center</p>solodilove@mail.ruIvanovaAnastasiya A.<p>Master’s Degree Student</p>iv.annastasia.iv@gmail.comTogliatti State University1504202313114215022022022Copyright © 2023, Solodilov M.V., Ivanova A.A.2023<p>The purpose of the article is to raise the question of the feasibility of creating the historical center of the city of Togliatti in the structure of the Central District on the basis of a new building and transferred from the territory of the flooded Stavropol in the mid-50s. This idea was repeatedly raised at the administrative level and was partly expressed in the projects for the reconstruction of the Central Park, the Museum Quarter and a number of other project proposals. The issue of determining the urban centers of all districts of Togliatti is still being discussed and is debatable, on which there is no consensus. It is proposed to carry out an audit of the preserved historical and architectural heritage, to identify the optimal territory of the historical center with a subsequent design proposal for its improvement. All this leads to the search for conceptual foundations, because the historical heritage of the city with a centuries-old history is almost lost. Architectural methods of preserving the memory of place come to the rescue: commemoration, reminiscence, retrospection, reconstruction. Another task of the study is to combine design practices with psychological techniques aimed at maintaining a stable psycho-emotional state of a person.</p>memory of a placehistorical centercentral region of Togliattiimprovement of historical settlementstourist attractionpsychology in designпамять местаисторический центрЦентральный район Тольяттиблагоустройство исторических поселенийтуристическая привлекательностьпсихология в проектировании[Diaz-Andreu M.А. Vsemirnaya istoriya arkheologii devyatnadtsatogo veka: natsionalizm, kolonializm i proshloe [World history of Nineteenth-Century Archeology, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past]. Oxford; New York, 2007. 501 p.][Nora P. Mezhdu pamyat’yu i istoriey: Vospominaniya o proshlom [Between Memory and History: Memory locations]. University of California Press, 1989, no. 26, pp. 7−24.][Nora P. Vospominaniya o proshlom [Memory locations]. Paris, Gallimard, 1984−1992. Vol. 1−7.][Nora P., Kritzman, Lawrence D. Tsarstva pamyati [Realms of Memory]. New York; Chichester, Columbia University Press, 1996−1998. Vol. 1−3.][Nora P., Ozuf M., Puimezh Zh., Vinok M. Frantsiya-pamyat’ [France-memory]. SPb., Publishing House of St. Petersburg State University, 1999. 328 p.][Mikhailov D.A. Archaeological places of social memory. Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Bulletin of the Tomsk State University], 2015, no. 394, pp. 121−126. (in Russian) DOI 10.17223/15617793/394/20][Kohl Ph.L., Kozelsky M., Ben-Yehuda N. Vyborochnye vospominaniya: arkheologiya v stroitel’stve, uvekovechenii pamyati i osvyashchenii natsional’nogo proshlogo [Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts]. University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. 1−31.][Gornov G.V. Collective memory and practices of commemoration in forming urban identity. Vestnik Omskogo gosudarstvennogo pedagogicheskogo universiteta Gumanitarnye issledovaniya [Bulletin of Omsk State Pedagogical University. Humanitarian Research], 2017, no. 2 (15), pp. 18−21. (in Russian)][Havens R. Mudrost’ Miltona Eriksona [Wisdom of Milton Erickson]. Moscow, Nezavisimaya firma «Klass» Publ., 1999. 400 p.][Berne E.L. Transaktsionnyy analiz v psikhoterapii [Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy]. Eksmo Publ., 2015. 300 p.][Stewart I., Joyce W. Sovremennyy tranzaktnyy analiz [A New Introduction to Transactional Analysis]. St. Petersburg, Sotsial’no-psikhologicheskiy tsentr, 1996. 335 p.][Kolk Bessel van der. Telo pomnit vse. Kakuyu rol’ psikhologicheskaya travma igraet v zhizni cheloveka i kakie tekhniki pomogayut ee preodolet’ [The body keeps the score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma]. Moscow, Eksmo Publ., 2022. 464 p.][Bokareva K.A., Solodilov M.V. Historical, cultural, natural and recreational potential of the city forest park of Sluzovaya microdistrict of Tolyatti. Gradostroitel’stvo i arkhitektura [Urban planning and architecture], 2021, vol. 11, no. 2 (43), pp. 86−93. (in Russian) DOI: 10.17673/Vestnik.2021.02.13][Veretennikov D.B. Historical development and peculiarities of formation of the system of central and pedestrian spaces of Togliatti. Gradostroitel’’stvo, planirovka sel’’skikh naselennykh punktov [City planning of rural settlements], 2019, no. 3 (15), pp. 15−27. (in Russian)]