A new book on the history of the Murman coast colonization

• Published in: Arctic and North
• Main Author: Dmitry A. Gerasimov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Northern Arctic Federal University 2018
• Subjects: mortality; metrical books; the Murman coast; the Kola North; the Arctic; colonization; demography; necropolis; hist; archeo; Arctic; Barents Sea; Murmansk
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.30.134; https://narfu.ru/upload/iblock/483/08_Gerasimov.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/bfa5b78183e1475796075f0f4ceca0a0

The review of the book by P.V. Fedorov and A.A. Malashenkov “Soil on the Northern rocks: Orthodox necropolis of the Murmansk coast of the Barents Sea (1863–1920)”. The study based on the processing of metrical books made it possible to publish the information about 2,524 persons of the Orthodox religion buried on the Murmansk coast, or drowned in the sea in 1863–1920. The Authors found the demographic statistics related to the appearance of the settlements with permanent population. The book clarifies the idea of “cultural soil”, local and family-genealogical structures in the Russian Arctic, and it also contributes to the historical personification of the Murmansk coast.