Title of the article:

RECONSTRUCTION OF THE TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL AND PLANNING ENVIRONMENT OF POMOR SETTLEMENTS OF THE 19TH — EARLY 20TH CENTURY (USING THE EXAMPLE OF THE VILLAGE OF TAMITSA, ONEGA DISTRICT, ARKHANGELSK REGION)

Author(s):

Zhigaltsova, T.V.

Information about the author/authors

Tatiana V. Zhigaltsova — PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Severnaya Dvina Emb. 17, 163002 Arkhangelsk, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000‑0002‑5471‑1540
E-mail: zhitava@gmail.com

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2024

Volume

Vol. 73

Pages

pp. 71–87

Received

February 05, 2024

Approved after reviewing

May 05, 2024

Date of publication

September 25, 2024

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2024-73-71-87

Index UDK

39 (470.11) + 911.53

Index BBK

63.521 (= 411.2)

Acknowledgements

The research was funded by the grant of the Russian Science Foundation No. 23-28-10034 Creation of sustainable communities in view of the consequences of transformation of architectural and ethnographic environment of the island and coastal Arctic.

Abstract

The study recreates the traditional architectural and planning environment of the Pomor village of Tamitsa, the Onega District of the Arkhangelsk Region, in the 19th — early 20th century (layout and boundaries of the area, church, public and administrative, economic and residential buildings, agricultural land, partially toponymy). It is necessary to reconstruct the history of such heritage objects as the village church ensemble with the cemetery and the churchyard (“pogost”), the parish clergymen houses, situated in the vicinity of the church ensemble, and the parish school building, because these objects were physically lost. The paper reveals some new, previously unpublished archival data on the village layout and the construction plans of the buildings. The study of the historical reconstruction of the traditional architectural and planning environment of the village of Tamitsa discovered its heterogeneity: three architectural layers were identified, partially preserved to this day, dating from 1851–1881, 1882‑30s of the 20th century, and 30–40s of the 20th century. Reflecting on the prospects of this research, the author concludes that the creation of a comprehensive database of knowledge of the heritage objects and traditional culture may become a source for strengthening local identity and authenticity of the territory, which ultimately contributes to the sustainable development of this area, and the Arctic territories of the Russian Federation.

Keywords

Traditional Pomor Culture, Architectural and Planning Environment, Heritage Sites, Historical Memory, the Onega Coast of the White Sea.

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