The establishment of a new image of Yakutsk city in the beginning of the XX century
Nowadays an institutional approach is still relevant in modern stage of art culture development. It is a peculiar regulator of culture’s functioning mechanism in the present urban environment. The art is emerging as a form of self-awareness that gave rise to this culture and in this enviroment. Self determination of art culture in Yakutia as a particular subsystem appears in the urban enviroment in the beginning of the XXI century. And specifically it comes out in Yakutsk because it is the capital of arctic civilization in the North-Eastern part of Russia. This image is still getting shape so the dynamic development of urban enviroment lets a person to identify himself and to find the answers in modern global world. New images get their form not right away but little by little as a result of human’s activity and urban enviroment establishment. That is why it is imperative to form a new image of modern Yakutsk which is connected with the quest of the Russian civilizational identity integrating the indigenous ethnic groups and peoples of Northeast Asia. This article is devoted to the first attempt of its substantitation. Within the context of the everyday world namely the art keeps its role of an integration factor since it can give the tangible ideals and orientirs for different kinds of practice directed at the enviroment organization. The article touches upon the problem of a mass, traditional and art culture interaction in urban enviroment of Yakutia. According to the studies of previous centuries Yakutsk emerged as a typical medieval Siberian burg-Kremlin in the XVII century. In the XVIII-XIX centuries the image of an Orthodox city has been developed. Yakutsk became a merchant city in the end of the XIX-ХХ centuries. During the Soviet period the capital of the Yakut ASSR gets its typical soviet industrial image. The professional art of Yakutia just started to emerge and develop at that stage. Since 90-s of the XX century Yakutia was dynamically expanding and evolving when the new enviroment gradually dictated a necessity for the new images, systematic approaches and an integration in economics, culture and art. Civilizational approach is the major fact of integration and unification.