Шахнович М. М. Археологическое изучение церкви Рождества Пречистой Богородицы Кандалакшского монастыря // Ученые записки Петрозаводского государственного университета. - 2023. - Т. 45, № 8.

Археологическое изучение церкви Рождества Пречистой Богородицы Кандалакшского монастыря 35 destroyed monastery church of the Nativity of the Mother of God for the first time. The purpose of the work was to obtain new information about the cultural layer of the monastery, the time of its foundation, and the unknown stages of its history. The excavations have studied the eastern part of the church on an area of 47 m 2 . A well-preserved cultural layer dating back to the XVII–XIX centuries with a thickness of 0.8 m was found. Interesting objects were found under the church: the foundation of 1865, four masonries, two burials, and the remains of walls and pillars. They are mostly dated to the middle of the XVII century, but there are dates from the late XV and the early XVI centuries, which is important for finding traces of the “pre-monastery” period. The “original” burial in the altar – two men lying on top of each other in the same pit – is considered to the burial of high-ranking monks. The finds are mostly nails and staples, there are not many individual artifacts: a screwdriver for an eighteenth-century gun, fragments of mica windows, one copper cross from the burial of a baby, ceramics, a fish hook, and barley grains. The excavations have confirmed the relevance of the research and the prospects for their continuation. K e y w o r d s : Kola Peninsula, Kandalaksha Monastery, Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, late Middle Ages, archaeological research A c k n o w l e d g e m e n t s . The authors express their sincere gratitude to D. Loskutov and V. Onatsky for their help. The study was funded from the federal budget as part of the research project No FMEZ-2022-0028 “Sociocultural, scientific and technological development of the northwestern part of the Russian Arctic zone” assigned to the Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences”. F o r c i t a t i o n : Shakhnovitch, M. M. Archaeological study of the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God of the Kandalaksha Monastery. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2023;45(8):23–35. DOI: 10.15393/uchz. art.2023.971 REFERENCES 1. B e l y a e v , L . A . , T i k h o v a , O . A . Stone bases of holy tables and processional crosses from 16th – 18th cc. Moscow churches. Russian Archeology. 2012;2:168–172. (In Russ.) 2. V i n o k u r o v a , E . P . Cast metal cross-vests of the XVII century. Culture of medieval Moscow. Moscow, 1999. Р. 326–360. (In Russ.) 3. Z a z o v s k a y a , E . P . Radiocarbon dating – modern state, problems, prospects of development and use in archeology. Vestnik arheologii, antropologii and etnografii. 2016;1(32):151–164. (In Russ.) 4. N i k o n o v , S . A . Kandalaksha Monastery in the XVI–XVIII centuries: research and materials. Part 1. Essays on history. Murmansk, 2011. 324 p. (In Russ.) 5. S h a k h n o v i t c h , M . M . The ancient church of Saints Boris and Gleb at the Pasvik River: the experience of historical and archaeological research. The Fourth Theodoret Readings. St. Petersburg, 2012. Р. 181–215. (In Russ.) 6. S h a k h n o v i t c h , M . M . Works in the Monastery of Saint Tryphon of Pechenga (Murmansk region). Novgorod and Novgorod Land. History and Archeology. 2012;26:166–177. (In Russ.) 7. S h a k h n o v i t c h , M . M . , S k a m n i t s k a y a , L . S . Localization of mica production in the late Middle Ages in North Karelia and the Kola Peninsula. Bulletin of the Irkutsk State University. Geoarchaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology Series. 2014;9:141–152. (In Russ.) 8. S h a k h n o v i t c h , M . M . , S h i r o b o k o v , I . G . Late medieval burial ground in the village of Varzuga: results of work in 2011–2012. Novgorod and Novgorod Land. History and Archeology. 2013;27:97–114. (In Russ.) 9. S h u r g i n , I . N . Disappearing heritage. Essays on Russian wooden temples of the XV–XVIII centuries. Moscow, 2006. 200 p. (In Russ.) Received: 24 April 2023; accepted: 25 September 2023