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Plotkin, Konstantin Moiseyevich


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Ancient settlements (selishche)
Selishches, remains of unfortified settlements, discovering according to the presence of the culture lay and withdrawn material. The search of ancient settlements is embarrassed for lack of external indications. More then 120 ancient settlements... more


Archaeological monuments
Archaeological monuments of the Leningrad Oblast are settlements, grads, burial grounds, religious objects and other material trails of the past. Settling the oblast territory took place during the Mesolithic period. The age of the most ancient... more


Brandenburg, Nikolay Yefimovich (1839-1903), a scientist
Brandenburg, Nikolay Yefimovich (1839-1903), a military historian, archaeologist, Lieutenant-General (1896). After finishing the Konstantin Military School in 1858, he served in artillery units. In 1861, keeping on the military sevice, Brandenburg... more


Burial grounds of the Izhora people.
Burial grounds of the Izhora people are concentrated in the Izhors tribe land in the Izhora and Neva rivers basin and on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland (see: Izhora). There are the data about 33 soil burial grounds. Excavations were made... more


Burial grounds of the Karelian people.
Burial grounds of the Karelians ( chronicle Korela, ancestors of the modern Korelians/Karyala) are concentrated in the north-western Ladoga Lake region (Priozersk district, joining districts of Karelia). There are known funeral monuments of the... more


Burial grounds of the Vod people.
Burial grounds of the Vod. Funeral sites of the North-western Vod ("Chud") were explored by E.A. Ryabinin in 1983-1988 in the former Vod parish of Kattila (Kotli Village of the Kingisepp district). The oldest type is presented by stone burial... more


Commission for the Archaeologic Research of the Leningrad Oblast
The Commission for the Archaeologic Research of the Leningrad Oblast. In 1919 the Russian Academy of the Material Culture History (RAIMK, later GAIMK) was esatblished in Petrograd. It was the predecessor of the conteporary centres of the Russian... more


Cult (worship) stones
Cult stones. The worship of cult stones was registered in all northern part of the East Europe including Baltic countries and Scandinavia. Track-stones, with deep image of a human foot track, are wide presented. Those images are sometimes... more


Culture of Mounds
The Culture of Mounds. Mounds are high steep-side hills with the flat top and with the circle made of boulders at the foot. The area of the mound culture include basins of Ilmen Lake, the Msta, Volkhov, Luga rivers. There are mounds in the Luga,... more


Dolengo-Khodakovsky, Zorian (Adam Charnotsky) (1784-1825), a scientist
Dolengo-Khodakovsky, Zorian (the real name is Adam Charnotsky) (1784-1825), a Polish archaeologist, a founder of the scientific Slavonic philology, a researcher and expert on Slav antiquities. In 1811 he joined the army of Napoleon and participated... more


Early Metal Epoch, the
The early Metal Epoch. In 2000 BC ancestors of the Finno-Ugric tribes, which include the local Neolithic population, mooved to the Leningrad Oblast territory from Verkhneye Povolzhye (the Volga River upperstream region). They brought the culture of... more


Fortified ancient settlements
Fortified ancient settlements (gorodishches), remains of fortified settlements protected with natural obstacles, ditches and banks. In the leningrad Oblast there are 30 fortified ancient settlements, they are mainly of cape type (15 of them are... more


Fortress and defence building
Fortress and defence building. The defence of the northwestern lands of Russia was created on combining almost impassable places ("natural strongholds") and powerful frontier fortresses located on the important directions. The fortress building ... more


Gurina, Nina Nikolayevna (1909-1990), a scientist
Gurina, Nina Nikolayevna (1909-1990), an archaeologist, a researcher of the Stone Age. During 1937-1930 Gurina attended the Moscow State University, then she worked at museums of Kandalaksha and Petrozavodsk towns. From 1935 Gurina worked at GAIMK... more


Inostrantsev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1843-1919), a scientist
Inostrantsev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1843-1919), a geologist, a professor of the St. Petersburg University (1873), a Corresponding Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1901). He graduared from the physico-mathematical faculty of... more


Ivangorod Fortress
Ivangorod Fortress (The Ivangorod Town is located on the right bank of river Narova) This fortress was founded in 1492 on the Devichiya Hill(Maiden Hill) and it is located opposite the castle order Narva. The fortress was named in honour of grand... more


Ivanovsky, Lev Konstantinovich (1845-1892), a scientist
Ivanovsky, Lev Konstantinovich (1845-1892), a doctor, archaeologist, anthropologist. He graduated the Medical and Surgical Academy in 1869 with the gold medal and he was suggested to work as an assistant lecturer at the descriptive anatomy... more


Koporye Fortress
Koporye Fortress (village Koporye, on the bank of the river Koporka) is located on the top of the rock which surrounded by valley of the river and ravines. It is located 12 km from the Gulf of Finland. The fortifiers were attracted the convenient... more


Korela, fortress, the
The Korela fortress (the town of Priozersk located on the bank of the River Vuoksa). The historic names: Kyakisalmi ("The Cuckoo Strait"; the Karelian name), Karelian Town (the Novgorod name), Korela (the Moscow name), Keksgolm (the Swedish name).... more


Kurgans (barrows) of the southern Ladoga Lake region.
Kurgans (barrows, burial mounds) of the southern Ladoga Lake region (the late 9th - early 13th centuries) pertain to so-called the Lake Ladoga region Chuds whose descendants took part in forming Vepses and Karels. They were likely to be "kolbyagi",... more


Lebedev, Gleb Sergeyevich (1943-2003), a scientist
Lebedev, Gleb Sergeyevich (1943-2003, Staraya Ladoga Village), an archaeologist, a professor of the Leningrad/St. Petersburg University (1990). He graduated from the history faculty of the Leningrad State University in 1968, taught at the... more


Linevsky, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1902-1985), a scientist
Linevsky, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1902-1985), a writer, archaeologist and ethnographer. Linevsky was born in St. Petersburg, studied at the College of Jurisprudence (1912-1918) and at the Petrograd/Leningrad Iniversity (1923-1928). In 1929 he... more


Mesolithic monuments, The.
The Mesolithic monuments. Mesolithic (the Middle Stone Age) is the transitional epoch between the Palaeolithic period and the Neolithic period (in Europe - from c 10000 to 7000 BC). Microlite silicon tools, various goods made of bone and horn are... more


Neolithic monuments, The
The Neolithic monuments. The Neolithic (New Stone Age, 8000 - 3000 BC) is the epoch of farming and cattling appearance, spinning and weaving, new techniques of processing of stones and ceramics. In the Eastern Europe forest zone the Neolithics is... more


Old Russian Kurgans (barrows)
The Old Russian kurgans (barrows) are mounds over graves of the 10th-14th centuries. In old Russian towns barrow burials were stopped in the 11th century after adopting Christianity. The rural population continued to bury according to the Pagan... more


Oleg's grave, a tumulus
The burial of Oleg is a tumulus in Staraya Ladoga Village. The chronicle legend about the death of Prince Oleg (he died in AD 912) connects the place of his burial with Ladoga. In the vicinity of the mound there are known three necropolises... more


Pogosts
POGOSTS, a term widely used in the 10th – 18th centuries to designate territorial divisions and settlements; its meaning changed with time. P. was the term for the centers of rural communities that paid tribute to the Prince; place of tribute ... more


Ravdonikas, Vladislav Iosifovich (1894-1976), a scientist
Ravdonikas, Vladislav Iosifovich (1894, Tikhvin - 1976), an archaeologist, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Science of the USSR (1946). In the middle of the 1910s Ravdonikas has been keen on archaelogical dig of burial mounds of the Tikhvin... more


Repnikov, Nikolay Ivanovich (1882-1940), a scientist
Repnikov, Nikolay Ivanovich (1882-1940), an archaeologist, researcher of Staraya Ladoga and other archaeological sites of the Leningrad Oblast. From 1902 he worked at the Archaeology Committee and the Russian Archaeologic Society, after the... more


Shlisselburg Fortress, the
The Shlisselburg Fortress (untill 1612 it is called Oreshek, from 1612 untill 1702 – Noteburg) is an ancient Russian fortress on Orekhov Island, on the Neva River where it flows out of Lake Ladoga. In 1323 Grand Prince Yury Danilovich and citizens... more


Spitsin, Aleksandr Andreyevich (1858-1931), a scientist
Spitsin, Aleksandr Andreyevich (1858-1931), an archaeologist, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Scienses (1927). He graduated from the St. Petersburg University in 1882. From 1892 Spitsin worked at the Archaeology Committee (the Committee was... more


Staraya Ladoga Fortress
Staraya Ladoga Fortress is located on the bank of the Volkhov River near the confluence of the Ladozhka River. It protected Novgorod lands from attacks fron North, from the side of Sweden. According to annalistic data the first wooden... more


Stone Crosses
Stone crosses are the essential part of zhalnik and earth burial grounds, cemeteries and on churches' pogosts of the Novgorod Land. Grave crosses were placed at the head of burial grounds. As far as destruction of desolate graves, crosses were... more


The Culture of long burial mounds (barrows)
The Culture of long burial mounds (long barrows). The new culture was extended on the vast territory included Pskov Lake, the Velikaya, Lovat, Msta, Mologa and Chagodoshch (partly) rivers in the middle of AD 1000. This culture is distinguished... more


Tiversk military post, a fortress
Tiversk military post, a fortress (Priozersk district, in 3.5 km to south from Vasilevo Settlement). The reinforced settlement on island in the middle of the Vuoksa River, near the Tiuri rapids that was tribal and handicraft centre of the Karelian.... more


Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks
The trade route from "the Varangians to the Greeks". During the 9th-11th centuries it connected Rus and the Northern Europe with Byzantine Empire on the route: the Baltic Sea - the Neva River - Ladoga Lake - the Volkhov River - Ilmen Lake - the... more


Treasures
Treasures are deliberately hidden riches mostly buried by the owner. About fourty coin, coin and thing, and thing treasures were found in the Leningraf Oblast territory under different circumstances. The unique treasure of craftman tools and... more


Underwater archaeology
The Underwater archaeology. The under water ancient human sites, harbours and ports, hydraulic and fortification structures, ships were found on the Leningrad Oblast territory. In the early 20th century fishermen found an ancient boat loaded... more


Vyborg Castle, the
The Vyborg Castle (the town of Vyborg, Zamkovy (Castle) Island). It is located on the island in the Krepostnoy (Fortress) Strait in the place where the Vuoksa River flows into the Vyborg Bay. It was founded in 1293 by the Swedish Ruler Torkel... more


Yamgorod Fortress
Yamgorod Fortress (Kingisepp, in the right bank of the Luga River). The Yam fortress was built in 1384 during 33 days under the direction of Novgorod posadniks. It controlled water and land passes from Novgorod to port towns of Baltic. It repelled... more


Zhalniks (sepulcrums).
Zhalniks (sepulcrums), burial places of the rural population of the Novgorod land of the 12th -15th centuries. On the Leningrad Oblast territory there are known zones of the Old Russian farming colonization: the Luga-Oredezh region, the Izhora... more