Ленинские горы как гетеротопный локус Культуры Два
Lenin Hills as a heterotopy among the Culture Two

Summary/Abstract: The task of the author of this article is to have a certain territory on the outskirts of Moscow – Sparrow Hills (Vorobyovy Gory, in the years of 1935–1991 Lenin Hills), which in terms of appearance, function, cultural and formed around the site of the mythological shell, differs significantly from the stereotypical assumptions about the totalitarian Soviet culture, also known as the Culture Two (V. Paperny). Already in the nineteenth century created some evidence to create in these hills a sanctuary of reason and civic virtue (which was to become the reincarnation of Temple of Christ the Savior). These mythic poetics have been perpetuated and reinforced by the famous oath of Alexander Herzen and Nicholas Ogarev (1827). In Soviet Russia, the Lenin Institute of Library Sciences, the visionary project by Ivan Leonidov, was planned to be built on the Lenin Hills, next to the Temples of Reason. Finally, a monumental building of Moscow State University, one of the symbols of Culture Two, was built. The space around him included numerous scientific institutions as well as Studio “Mosfilm”, the Palace of Pioneers, theater, circus, stadium and botanical garden. All this gave the hills the Leninist character of the elite. Symbolizing the ideals of the Enlightenment knowledge and progress, this heterotopy was the island of relative order, nobility and dignity in the Soviet sea of troubles, rudeness and humiliation.

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