Enlightenment
Lectures, master classes, festivals and public talks on visual culture and history.
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Postal Heritage Laboratory
Explore everyday life, cultural heritage and postal history with us.
Directions
Research
We work with postcards as a data source: contexts, texts, images, routes.
Read more →Scientific Volunteering
Collaborative research: digitization and annotation of materials, support for digital projects.
Read more →Creative Practice
Workshops, artistic practices, and projects at the intersection of research and art.
Read more →Public diplomacy
Intercultural initiatives, international connections, and projects on memory and communication.
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Our projects
2025 — Present
Current
Map of Postal Landmarks
A volunteer project dedicated to identifying, documenting, and promoting sites and objects related to the history of postal services and the culture of correspondence. The postal service is not only…
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2026 — 2026
Completed
Space by Mail
The history of space exploration told through postcards — as part of everyday culture and the human experience of the twentieth century. “Space by Mail” is a virtual exhibition dedicated…
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2026 — 2026
Completed
“Heart to Heart Brings a Message”: Spring Letters Marathon
The creative competition “Spring Letters” is a project about correspondence as a space of imagination, where words and images merge into a single artistic form. The inspiration for participants was…
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2026 — 2026
Completed
Letters of Victory
In many families, time-yellowed sheets with letters and postcards — frontline correspondence of relatives — are carefully preserved. In those years, letters were the main means of communication between people.…
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2025 — 2025
Completed
Hackathon “Postal: Memory, Language, Technology”
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…
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Materials
Publications, materials, media, documents and other outputs of the laboratory.
Pochtovoe Recognized for Preserving Historical Memory and Promoting Postcard Collecting
The Pochtovoe project has received a letter of appreciation from the Centralized Library System of Nizhny Novgorod’s Nizhegorodsky District. The letter was addressed to the project’s creator, Timur Khusyainov, in recognition of his work…
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Timur Khusyainov Takes Part in Meeting of the Coordinating Council of the Youth Assembly of the Peoples of the World
On October 21, 2026, a meeting of the Coordinating Council of the Youth Assembly of the Peoples of the World was held in Moscow. Timur Khusyainov, head of the Pochtovoye Laboratory, took part in…
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Pochtovoe Expands Its International Connections through the BRICS+ Youth Geography Exchange
The head of the Pochtovoe project took part in the international youth conference BRICS+ Youth Geography Exchange: Country Perspectives in Focus, held as part of the preliminary program of the BRICS+ Youth Geographical Forum.…
Open resourceFrom Africa to the State Bank: where Nizhny Novgorod residents sent New Year postcards in the 20th century
В городе N publishes “From Africa to the State Bank: where Nizhny Novgorod residents sent New Year postcards in the 20th century”, a material about old postcards and their value for studying history and…
Open resourceHow It Works: “I’m Writing to You” Workshops
System Block publishes “How It Works: “I’m Writing to You” Workshops”, a material about old postcards and their value for studying history and everyday life.
Open resource“From Nizhny with Love.” The Past in Postcards: Interview
Dialog publishes the interview ““From Nizhny with Love.” The Past in Postcards: Interview” about old postcards, historical correspondence and the memory of everyday life.
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