An open, citation-grade catalogue of the monumental art, architecture, and everyday places of the Soviet century — and the cultural record around them. What survives, what is at risk, what is lost.
Mosaics, sculptures, reliefs, frescoes, sgraffito, stained glass, and the structures that host them — surveyed, photographed, and documented with primary-source citations, across the territories of the Soviet century.
This organisation holds the archive's engineering: the record deserves infrastructure as durable as the subject, so it is built on open standards, implemented exactly:
- edtf — Extended Date/Time Format (ISO 8601-2) in Rust, levels 0–2 in full: historical dates are approximate, and the archive records that honestly rather than rounding it away.
- iiif-server — the IIIF Image API, 3.0 and 2.1 with the complete feature table, as one static pure-Rust binary serving the photographic record.
- The archive database — PostGIS, schema as code, with an anchored
checkpoint ledger keeping the record of the record tamper-evident, on
monumental-archive-db:
the official Postgres image plus PostGIS, pgaudit, and
edtf_postgres— multi-arch, tested before publish, cosign-signed.
Everything is built the same way: toolchains pinned and checksummed, every linter at maximum, releases signed with verifiable provenance, and one CI gate no branch — and no maintainer — can bypass.
