Archaeological Monuments in St. Petersburg and its Outskirts

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL MONUMENTS IN ST. PETERSBURG AND ITS OUTSKIRTS, including artefacts (man-made items), settlements and burial places. The oldest archaeological monuments on the territory of the region date back to the Mesolithic Period (before the emergence of ceramics). At the beginning of the 20 century, remains of a fishing net and bone tools from the 8th-7th centuries B.C. were found near Antrea (today the town of Kamennogorsk); flint implements and slabs were found on the western shore of the lake Sestroretsky Razliv (sites from the Neolithic period were also discovered there), and bone items were excavated in the former village of Tyrvala on the bank of the Narva River (7th - 6th centuries B. C.). Most of the region's archaeological monuments date back to the Middle Ages. Since the second half of the 19th century, the burial mounds at Izhorskaya Heights have been researched and dated back to the 11th -14th centuries, marking the spread and influence of Slavonic culture in the Baltic Finn (the Votes) territory. Information about the region's medieval history, the population's ethnic makeup, and contact between Slavs and Scandinavians, has been gathered by studying Ladoga (today Old Ladoga, founded no later than the middle of the 8th century), the oldest town or settlement in the region, which was situated along the route to Greece used by the Vikings (also known as Varangians). Excavations have been undertaken at the southern Ladoga burial mounds, and at the Oreshek, Koporye, and Ivangorod fortresses. At various times, excavations on the outskirts of St. Petersburg were supervised by L.K. Ivanovsky, N.K. Roerich, A.A. Inostrantsev, N.E. Brandenburg, A.A. Spitsyn, and V.I. Ravdonikas. More recently, A.N. Kirpichnikov, G.S. Lebedev, E.A. Ryabinin, P.E. Sorokin and other researchers have worked in the region. Research on more recent archaeological monuments has been developed since the middle of the 20th century (see Archaeology of Towns).

Reference: Лебедев Г.С. Археологические памятники Ленинградской области. Л., 1977; Кирпичников А. Н. Каменные крепости Новгородской земли. Л., 1984; Лапшин В. А. Археологическая карта Ленинградской области: В 2 ч. Л.; СПб., 1990-1995; Кирпичников А. Н., Сарабьянов В. Д. Старая Ладога - древняя столица Руси. СПб., 1996; Рябинин Е. А. Водская земля Великого Новгорода. СПб., 2001.

A. Y. Chistyakov. Brandenburg Nikolay Efimovich
Inostrantsev Alexander Alexandrovich
Ivanovsky L.K.
Kirpichnikov Anatoly Nikolaevich
Lebedev Gleb Sergeevich
Ravdonikas Vladislav Iosifovich
Roerich Nikolay Konstantinovich
Ryabinin Evgeny A.
Sorokin Peter Egorovich
Spitsyn Alexander Andreevich
Лебедев Г. С. Археологические памятники Ленинградской области. Л., 1977
Рябинин Е. А. Водская земля Великого Новгорода. СПб., 2001
Кирпичников А. Н., Сарабьянов В. Д. Старая Ладога - древняя столица Руси. СПб., 1996
Лапшин В. А. Археологическая карта Ленинградской области: В 2 ч. Л.; СПб., 1990-1995
Кирпичников А. Н. Каменные крепости Новгородской земли. Л., 1984 Trade Route between the Varangians and the Greeks