Abstract
<jats:p>The article is dedicated to the 1987 celebration in the Kurgan Region of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Civil War hero and division commander Nikolai Tomin (1886-1924). The research aims to identify the characteristic features and internal contradictions of the Late Soviet commemoration model, using this regional anniversary as a case study. Based on unpublished documents from the State Archive of Socio-Political History of the Kurgan Region (GASPIKO) and regional periodicals, the study reconstructs the institutional mechanisms of the jubilee campaign, analyzes the forms of visualization and ritualization of memory, and determines the reasons for the failure of the attempt to revive the revolutionary myth. The scientific novelty lies in the introduction of previously unpublished archival documents from the regional and district committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union into scholarly circulation, as well as the application of the memory studies methodological framework to the analysis of a regional campaign during the Perestroika era. The study establishes that by the late 1980s, the command-administrative model of memory management had lost its ability to generate a live response in society. A gap was identified between the scale of organizational efforts and the actual impact on public consciousness, which was undergoing a profound transformation under the influence of Glasnost policy. The study concludes that the 1987 jubilee campaign was one of the final acts of Soviet monumental propaganda in the Kurgan Region, exposing the fundamental contradiction between the state monopoly on memory and the erosion of official ideological legitimacy.</jats:p>