Problems of museumification of the monuments of the history of hydraulic engineering from Peter the Great’s era in the Kamyshin district of the Volgograd region

The article presents the projects of museimification of the archaeological heritage sites, “Selimov Val” and “Petrov Val”, related to the history of construction of the canal intended to connect the Volga and the Don rivers via their tributaries, Kamyshinka and Ilovlya, in 1697–1701. These solutions were developed drawing upon the international experience of museumification of the monuments of hydraulic engineering and are based on new data concerning the history of construction of Peter the Great’s Volga-Don Canal, ob- tained in the course of archaeological investigations and archival research in 2022–2023.