On July 1, 2022, the National Archives Administration issued the "Measures for the Opening of Archives of the National Archives" (Order No. 19 of the National Archives Administration), requiring national archives at all levels to provide the society with various forms and rich content of archives opening results, and to promote archives. New progress and new achievements have been continuously made in the opening-up work.
Recently, the China Silk Archives launched the immersive interactive experience activity of "The Seventh Archives". The "Seventh Archives" project focuses on the creation of themes around the history of red archives, and integrates the content related to the three major heritages, including the silk archives. The project takes puzzle-solving elements as the core, and works simultaneously online and offline from multiple dimensions such as physical publications, scene performances, and real-scene puzzle-solving activities (games), so that the advantages of different forms and carriers complement each other. In terms of form, it can be said to be It is the first in the domestic archival industry.
In fact, the archival information resource library scattered in various archives (rooms) at all levels is a treasure trove of knowledge to be developed. Works, game scenes, and cultural and creative products bring design inspiration.
When the author recently experienced an online game called "Atomic Heart", I found that many of the settings and elements reminded me of the country that was once full of "technology and futurism" - the former Soviet Union (for the convenience of description, the following collectively referred to as the " Soviet Union "). During the Cold War, Soviet scientists based their visions of the future on atomic energy and space technology. They are the "Soviet black technology" that people talk about, military weapons with explosive imagination, and "" Soviet terror experiments", and the designs of various robots and weapons in "Atomic Heart" are inextricably linked with these black technologies.
With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, some confidential archives were declassified in the name of scientific experiments and civilian medicine. A large amount of data flowed abroad. Facing the scientific and technological treasure house of the Soviet Union, all countries are looking for "black technology" that can be introduced into the country. Naturally, the game industry will not miss such a good source of creativity and creative materials. "Atomic Heart" is an adventure role-playing action game in a closed world developed by Mundfish Studio. In the overhead world of the 1950s, robots and other advanced technologies developed during the Second World War helped human Opened a new chapter in history.
Let's take a look at the fascinating style of "Atomic Heart" sky city (Chelomey City), which draws on various surreal designs from the dusty archives of the Soviet Union.
The futuristic architectural heritage left by the Soviet Union is mostly absurd and fantasy, including the imagined Third International Memorial Tower and Soviet Palace, all of which are specific products of the Soviet period. With a surreal texture, it witnessed a dream-making movement that never looked back and was mobilized by the whole people.
Soviet architect G. Po Bolisovsky once proposed a vision of future urban planning hanging in the air - Hanging City. Whether it's futuristic buildings that have been built, or the prototypes of buildings that exist in science fiction and magazines, we can see the futuristic cities imagined by people in the Soviet era.
The following pictures are from Tekhnika-Molodezhi (Technology and Youth), an influential sci-fi magazine in the Soviet Union. It is sad that this influential sci-fi magazine gradually moved towards In decline, it was once banned and could only be transferred to underground circulation. Existing in the Moscow Design Museum and in the private collection of the family of Nikolai Nedbello.
future port giant dump truck
Resident Private Jet
Venus Islands
(Flying living platform on Venus)
wind power dam
"Travel in the Soviet Union in 1965", Shanghai People's Publishing House, 1959
This novel describes Moscow in 1965 as imagined by the author: it is an aerial city where airplanes are the main means of transportation, all daily necessities are made of plastic, and thousand-meter-high towers made of steel are erected in the city center. The nuclear power plant becomes the heart of the city, and the production of steel and oil doubles...
The urban design in "Atomic Heart" shows the futuristic urban fantasy of the Soviet era. Among them, the Chelomei complex, established in 1950 as the Sky City, is an autonomous scientific city with a population of about 25,000, and its residents are mainly scientists and service personnel. The Chelome complex represents the future of human cities - plans to relocate people to similar mobile platforms that do not depend on climatic conditions, provide comfortable living spaces in new buildings, parks to stroll, modern infrastructure and convenience commuting conditions. The whole city moves in space at a speed of 22 knots (about 40 km/h), making it a real flying city.
The design of the future city of "Atomic Heart" is as follows:
Chelomei Design Bureau is also known as the Soviet Central Machinery Manufacturing Design Bureau. The design bureau was established in 1955 and named after the famous Soviet rocket expert Vladimir Nikolaevich Chelomei. The main research and development task of this design bureau is to design advanced rockets for the Soviet Union. with missiles. To this day, many plans and studies undertaken by the Chelomei Design Bureau are still classified.
A few years ago, Russia also disclosed for the first time the 23mm space cannon and space missiles developed by the Chelomei Design Bureau for the Almaz space station.
"Diamond" equipped with TKS spacecraft
"Diamond" with synthetic aperture radar
23mm Space Cannon
In 2021, TV Zvezda, the official TV station of the Russian Ministry of Defense, showed the outside world for the first time the physical model of the Shchit-2 missile designed by the Chelomei Design Bureau.
Shchit-2 missile tail
A close-up view of the hybrid propulsion warhead section
※ The above pictures are from the news "This Is Our First Ever Look At A Top Secret Soviet Space 'Missile'". If there is any infringement, please contact to delete.
A large number of surreal designs of Chelomei Design Bureau have been reflected in the game scene of "Atomic Heart" to varying degrees, and we will continue to reveal the secrets in the next article.
to be continued
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