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Documented history and folk tradition around shungite: 18th-century imperial use, archive sources, regional stories from Karelia.

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Karelian heritage on both sides of the border: Finnish Karelia and Russian Karelia Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:383	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
How Marcial Waters got its name: Mars, the god of war and iron Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:265	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
Aurora borealis over Karelia: the natural EMF spectacle of the shungite homeland Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:237	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
Archaeological shungite finds: what's actually been excavated, where, when Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:241	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
The medieval Karelian–Norwegian trade routes: did shungite travel west? Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:252	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
The Finno-Ugric peoples of Karelia: who were the original users of aspidnyi kamen? Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:261	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
The Onega petroglyphs: 6000-year-old rock art at the same lake as the shungite deposits Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:230	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
Šun'ga, Sunku, Шуньга: the village in three languages, first mentioned 1375 Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:238	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
1792: Academician Ozeretskovsky's expedition to the "black earth" of Lake Onega Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:264	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
Aleksandr Inostrantsev (1843–1919): the man who named shungite Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:231	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
Kizhi Pogost: the wooden cathedral on the same peninsula as Shunga village Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:257	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
1706: Peter the Great brought aspidnyi kamen to his Summer Palace fountains Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:237	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
Marcial Waters: Russia's first health resort, 300+ years of operation Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:281	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
Peter the Great, Marcial Waters, and shungite in the early 18th century Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:242	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
Shunga: the village that gave the rock its name, on the shore of Lake Onega Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:250	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
The 17th-century nun Inokinya Marfa and the healing stone of Zaonezhye Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:274	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
Aspid: the Slavic dragon that gave shungite its medieval name Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:246	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
Peter the Great's army carried a chunk of shungite in every soldier's kit Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:294	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
Karelian shungite was a traded European artist's pigment for centuries under three different names Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:245	Last Post by Research 4 months 4 weeks ago
Ivan Ryaboev: the foundry worker who found the Marcial spring Category: History & Legend Topic started 5 months 15 hours ago, by Research Last Post 5 months 15 hours ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:255	Last Post by Research 5 months 15 hours ago