Activities of Udmurt actors in the preservation of monuments of industrial heritage — the main building and arsenal of the Izhevsk arms plant in the 1960–1980s.

The article reconstructs the conservation process in the 1960–1980s. monuments of industrial heritage — the main building and the arsenal, located on the territory of the former Izhevsk arms factory. The sources for the study were archival materials stored in one central and two regional archives, as well as information from periodicals. Many materials are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The author reconstructs the course of events related to the placement of objects under state protection, their repair and reconstruction. Those proposed in the 1960–1980s have been identified. ways of using these monuments, including taking into account the recommendations of regulatory documents of that time. It has been established that some intensification of the process of preserving the objects under study occurred in the second half of the 1980s. and in one case it was completed in 1994 (arsenal), and in the other it is currently being implemented (main building).