The Canal System of Bolshoy Solovetsky Island : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History 2014, no. 11: The Canal System of Bolshoy Solovetsky Island
With the foundation of the most northerly Orthodox monastery in 1436, monks and settlers began to create an extensive canal system on Solovetsky Island between the island's more than five hundred lakes, thus transforming and adapting the environment to accommodate the needs of human settlers.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
2014
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/5313 http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/5313/ |
Summary: | With the foundation of the most northerly Orthodox monastery in 1436, monks and settlers began to create an extensive canal system on Solovetsky Island between the island's more than five hundred lakes, thus transforming and adapting the environment to accommodate the needs of human settlers. |
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