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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalemeneva, Ekaterina
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany 2014
Subjects:
canals
hydroelectric power
lakes
religion
settlements
Landscape Transformation
Solovetsky
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/5313
http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/5313/
Description
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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