Enlightenment
Lectures, master classes, festivals and public talks on visual culture and history.
Read more →Explore everyday life, cultural heritage and postal history with us.
Lectures, master classes, festivals and public talks on visual culture and history.
Read more →We work with postcards as a data source: contexts, texts, images, routes.
Read more →Collaborative research: digitization and annotation of materials, support for digital projects.
Read more →Workshops, artistic practices, and projects at the intersection of research and art.
Read more →Intercultural initiatives, international connections, and projects on memory and communication.
Read more →The historical and educational hackathon “Postal: Memory, Language, Technology” was held from October 29 to November 1, 2025, in Nizhny Novgorod. The project’s starting point was unique postcards from the 19th and 20th centuries—living witnesses of the era. Participants were able to explore history through the language of letters and cultural codes, and propose modern […]
The Pochtovoe project continues to share meaningful cultural materials and examples of professional journalism dedicated to postal history and visual culture. The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda — Nizhny Novgorod published an article highlighting the importance of historical postcards as sources of knowledge and memory about our city’s past. The text presents fascinating historical facts and comments […]
The Pochtovoe project became a prize winner in the “Museum or Exhibition” category of the national “Volunteers of History” Award (2025) — a prestigious initiative supporting best practices in history education, the preservation of historical memory, and the promotion of historical knowledge. This award highlights our project’s contribution to historical education and to working with […]
Philately.ru features a report on a lecture delivered by Timur Khusyanov, head of the Pochtovoe project, for students of the Nizhny Novgorod Automotive Technical College. The article covers cultural and historical aspects of postal communication — from the origins of mail and university post to philatelic tourism and unusual postal practices. Read the original article […]
“From Nizhny with Love…” is an educational and cultural project that helps young people rediscover history through authentic pre-revolutionary postcards. Personal messages, everyday scenes, and living emotions from the late 19th and early 20th centuries reveal the past not as a list of dates, but as a deeply human and relatable experience.