Blockchain and the national heritage of Russia: promising areas of preservation, popularization, use

The article discusses the idea of "tokenization" of the national heritage; creation of "digital originals" of cultural heritage objects; wide popularization, exhibition, trade of NFT digital objects created on the basis of works of art, historical sources, and other objects of cultural heritage of the country. It is claimed that the mass tokenization of objects of storage of the Archival Fund of the Russian Federation; film and photo documents; interstate agreements; For the first time in history, other state acts will create a market for "digital originals" of historical sources, whose authenticity will be confirmed by NFTs traded on the national Russian blockchain exchange. The introduction of NFT technologies for the certification of images of the Archival Fund of the Russian Federation; other important and "sensitive" visual materials affecting the history and politics of the state will allow accurate verification of images on the network and prevent attempts to distort or manipulate them. The possibility of creating an open electronic archive of film and photo documents of the Russian Federation, where the national visual heritage will be exhibited, without the risk of its unfair distortion and use, is being studied. The same technology will allow the commercialization of intellectual property and the national heritage of the Russian Federation, at the same time contributing to its popularization both within the country and in the world. The emergence of a completely new market is predicted - the market of "digital originals" of historical documents. The possibility of creating 3D repositories of objects of cultural and natural heritage of the Russian Federation in order to catalog, preserve, restore, and use it is being studied.