OSSES USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WOODEN HOUSES OF THE KIZHI MUSEUM AND ITS BUFFER ZONE (REPUBLIC OF KARELIA)

A first bryological study of 31 wooden houses situated in 16 historical villages of the Kizhi parish on 4 islands and on Zaonezhsky Peninsula was carried out in the Kizhi Open Air Museum and its buffer zone. We found that in the past, wooden houses in this area were more commonly heat-insulated usin...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Main Authors: Margarita Boychuk, Roman Martjanov
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Russian
Published: Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2019
Subjects:
mosses
insulation
wooden houses
kizhi open air museum
lake onega
Science
Q
Onega
Republic of Karelia
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17076/eco1043
https://doaj.org/article/d1c14d1da0ac4cd28ab3d7c080446ce9
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Summary:A first bryological study of 31 wooden houses situated in 16 historical villages of the Kizhi parish on 4 islands and on Zaonezhsky Peninsula was carried out in the Kizhi Open Air Museum and its buffer zone. We found that in the past, wooden houses in this area were more commonly heat-insulated using semiaquatic mosses rather than forest-mire moss-es (Polytrichum commune, species of the genus Sphagnum). Sixteen species were iden-tified. The main ‘building’ moss was Warnstorfia exannulata. The presence of Scorpidium scorpioides, Scorpidium cossonii, Calliergon megalophyllum, Drepanocladus aduncusis noticeable. Previously (before the construction of the Nizhne-Svirskaya hydropower plant in 1952), these mosses used to be collected from shallow bays of Lake Onega.

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