Impact of the UNESCO world heritage listing on cultural heritage properties and their wider settings

The paper considers the issue of the augmentation of the quantity of the World Heritage properties in the light of the effectiveness of the Global Strategy for Representative, Balanced and Credible World Heritage List. In particular, the research focuses on the recent amendments to the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention limiting the number of considered nominations per year, including their consequences for the nomination of prospective World Heritage sites in the Russian Federation. In this context, the authors identified several advantages and disadvantages of the World Heritage designation on the basis of cases studies of various World Heritage sites in Russia and other State Parties.