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DOI: 10.18503/2658-3186-2021-5-4-91-96

Abstract. The article deals with the migration during the late part of the 1800s of Swedish iron workers to Tirlyan in the southern part of the Ural Mountains and the everyday life of the Swedish colony, this process seen in the light of the story telling and the preserved artefacts in Russia and Sweden. The way this “detail” in the history of Swedish emigration and the modernization of the Russian iron industry sector has been presented, by whom and for what reasons, is discussed in the article, by help of modern research concerning cultural heritage presentation challenges for museums and researchers in the world of today.

Keywords: Migration, local cultural heritage, Sweden, Ural, family histories, metallurgy, heritage museums, archives.

 

Author:

Peter Olausson, Ph D in History, Senior Lecturer in History, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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For citation

Olausson P. History and Family Memories in a LocaL Setting. Swedish Iron Smith´s in the Urals of the 1800s, Gumanitarno-pedagogicheskie issledovaniya [Humanitarian and pedagogical Research], 2021, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 91–96.