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Monks, management and God’s mercy: the Russian monasteries and the environment of the Russian north in the early modern age (16th – 18th centuries)
P. 47–53.
Dadykina M., Kraikovski A.
Russian North region was good for industry and trade and by the late 16th century it had become one of Russia’s most advanced and developed regions, incorporating the port of Archangelsk ‒ the major gateway for Russian commerce with Europe. The role of the monasteries in governing this region was a crucial one. In the following paragraphs we will consider the multifaceted interrelationship between the monks and the water environment of the region in more detail. We will start from landscape management considerations related to the foundation of the monastery itself, proceed to the control of the water environment in the monastery’s everyday life and lastly analyze the role water control played in monastic economic power.
Klyueva V., Журнал фронтирных исследований 2024 Т. 9 № 4 С. 146–168
The paper focuses on the analysis of survival practices in northern Russian settlements that developed in the 1990s. Most of the northern settlements were in a state of decline: changes in the socio‑demographic composition and population size, transformation of the local economy, degradation of transport infrastructure, deterioration in the quality of life. The reason for the decline ...
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Фаузер В. В., Smirnov A., Экономика региона 2024 Т. 20 № 2 С. 395–411
Over the past three decades, the population of the Russian North has decreased by almost a quarter. Simultaneously, an increasing share of pensioners may negatively affect the availability and quality of labour resources in northern regions. The article examines the dynamics and structure of human resources in 13 regions of the Russian North in the ...
Added: March 18, 2026
Smirnov A., Лыткина У. В., Population and Economics 2022 Vol. 6 No. 2 P. 14–34
The article is devoted to the analysis of impact of economic specialization of settlements in the northern mining region on their demographic dynamics. The object of the study is 58 urban and 725 rural settlements of the Komi Republic in 1897-2020. Use of highly detailed data made it possible to identify spatial and sectoral patterns ...
Added: March 18, 2026
Фаузер В. В., Smirnov A., Фаузер Г. Н., Север и рынок: формирование экономического порядка 2023 № 1 С. 64–79
Over the past decades, the population of the North of Russia has decreased by more than a quarter. The leading cause is migration outflow, with natural population movement also contributing to the overall population decline. Comparing the data of the last two censuses will make it possible to understand the full depth of the transformational ...
Added: March 18, 2026
Smirnov A., Лыткина У. В., Чупрова Е. А., Экономические и социальные перемены: факты, тенденции, прогноз 2025 Т. 18 № 2 С. 194–211
The North of Russia comprises cities and districts that differ in fertility and reproductive behavior; this fact makes the territory an interesting object for demographic research. The paper considers fertility in the North of Russia at the regional and municipal levels, both in conditional and in real generations. Such an approach helps to identify spatial ...
Added: March 18, 2026
Гусак А. Д., Dadykina M., Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики 2026 № 1(103) С. 61–83
The article presents the results of the study of the dynamics of salt prices in the Kholmogory and Vologda markets for the period 1624–1635, based on the data of the income and expenditure books of the Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery. The use of quantitative analysis and various graphical models allowed us to study in detail the features ...
Added: February 16, 2026
Dadykina M., Петербургский исторический журнал: исследования по российской и всеобщей истории 2024 № 3(43) С. 59–73
The article, which is based on the account books of the salt enterprises of the Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery, examines the management decisions made by the monastery elders who were in charge of the enterprises during the period of crisis that was caused by the salt reform of Alexei Mikhailovich. The evolution of salt prices in the ...
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Dadykina M., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2024 Т. 15 № 7 Статья 12
The Russian economy in the early modern times experienced the formation of new forms of economic activity, including monasteries becoming important “players” that concentrated significant economic resources in their hands, and the most actively developing region included in trade operations with local and foreign merchants — Russian North. A new type of economy required a ...
Added: July 6, 2025
Khatanzeiskaia E., Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2024 Vol. 94 No. 3 P. S337–S350
The everyday life of a Soviet port city during World War II is considered. Although Arkhangel’sk was never blockaded or occupied, it lost a quarter of its civilian population because of famine and hunger-related diseases. An important historiographical lacuna is filled by the author of this article by analyzing several key factors that led to ...
Added: February 17, 2025
Denis N. Mokrensky, Population and Economics 2022 Vol. 6 No. 1 P. 109–122
The article compares intraregional trends in demographic development of the old-developed territories of the Russian Near North: Arkhangelsk, Vologda, and Kostroma Oblasts. The author identifies trends in the fertility, mortality, and migration in 2011—2019 basing on the statistical indicators characterizing the demographic situation in municipal entities and urban districts of the old-developed areas in these ...
Added: February 4, 2025
Яровая П. Р., Этнографическое обозрение 2024 № 6 С. 81–96
Drawing on the case of the repair of a peasant house by residents of a dilapidated (and also being restored) Orthodox monastery in the Russian North, the article raises the question of the relationship between theology and economics of economic ethics. The ethnographic analysis of this article focuses on the categories of “labor” and “work” in ...
Added: January 15, 2025
Obukhov A., Исследователь/Researcher 2024 № 1-2 С. 50–54
The article precedes the published materials of N. Voroshchuk about the creation of a school ethnographic museum in Lyadinsk Primary School and its subsequent transformation into a private museum “Lyadinsky Patterns”, which has become one of the outstanding attractions of Kargopol (Russian North). The article describes the experience of friendship and cooperation with N. Voroshchuk, emphasizing her positive ...
Added: November 1, 2024
Чернышёва Н. С., Andreeva A. S., Kuziner E., Социологические исследования 2023 № 12 С. 136–145
The paper focuses on how the youth from the ethnic regions of the Russian North reinterprets their local identity. For this study, we have chosen three cities where citizens preserve their ethnic history and culture: Pomors in Arkhangelsk, Karelians in Petrozavodsk, and Komi in Syktyvkar. Referring to the model by P. L. Kroopkin, the authors ...
Added: November 17, 2023
Dadykina M., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2023 Т. 14 № 6 (128) Статья 3
The availability of energy resources of the required quality and in the required quantity was an important factor in the development of the economy and industry of the early Modern times. In this article, the author, based on the data of income and expenditure books, explores, firstly, the system for ensuring the production of salt ...
Added: September 6, 2023
Margarita M. Dadykina, Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (ex. Cahiers du Monde Russe) 2023 Т. 64 № 2 С. 367–392
The sources of this study are the account books of the salt-producing enterprises of the Vologda Spaso-Prilutskii Monastery, located in three different geographical and climatic zones of a large region called the Russian North. Based on two theoretical approaches – the concept of imaginary space and food history – the article attempts to explore the ...
Added: June 10, 2023
Dmitrieva Z., Margarita M. Dadykina, Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (ex. Cahiers du Monde Russe) 2023 Т. 64 № 2 С. 351–365
Comparing the data on the supply and consumption of grain and other types of food with the geography of trade relations before the Time of Troubles during the siege of the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery and the period that followed, the authors of the article explore the features of the local economy as part of the larger ...
Added: June 10, 2023
L. G. Novikova, Slavonic and East European Review 2021 Vol. 99 No. 1 P. 185–186
This is a review of the following book: Myklebost, Kari Aga; Nielsen, Jens Petter and Rogatchevskii, Andrei (eds). The Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Northern Impact and Beyond (Boston, 2020) ...
Added: August 24, 2022
St Petersburg State University Press, 2022.
The collection includes materials of the following St Petersburg State University
scientific events: Bilateral and Multilateral Regional Interaction in the Arctic (2020–
2021); the Synergy of Languages and Cultures: Interdisciplinary Studies International
Conference, the Arctic Region Peoples: Today’s Sociolinguistic Context section (2020–
2021). As a pilot project of the St Petersburg State University and the Arctic State
Institute of Culture ...
Added: July 1, 2022
Larchenko L. V., , in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Vol. 678Vol. 678: SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL FINDINGS OF THE ARCTIC EXPLORATION 2020: PRESENT AND FUTURE 10-11 September 2020, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation.: IOP Publishing, 2021.
Added: October 31, 2021
Bogomazova A., Dadykina M., Artefact: Techniques, histoire et sciences humaines 2021 No. 14 P. 37–62
The article examines the process of maritimization of the Russian state through the formation and functioning of fleets of the rich monasteries in the Early Modern Russian North: Solovetsky, Anthonievo-Siysky, Krestny Onezhsky and others. The athors analyze qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the fleets of the northern monasteries (types of vessels used in the economy ...
Added: October 28, 2021