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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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The Soviet atomic programme spent 33 years (1954-1987) checking whether the Karelian shungite belt was a uranium deposit Category: History & Legend Topic started 3 months 3 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 3 months 3 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:155	Last Post by Research 3 months 3 weeks ago
Novgorodian river-pirates were burning the rock as fuel in the second half of the 14th century — five hundred years before it had its modern name Category: History & Legend Topic started 3 months 3 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 3 months 3 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:163	Last Post by Research 3 months 3 weeks ago
Karelian shungite-slate in the wall-base sections of St Isaac's Cathedral, the floor trim of the Kazan Cathedral, and several Moscow Metro stations Category: History & Legend Topic started 3 months 3 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 3 months 3 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:172	Last Post by Research 3 months 3 weeks ago
A foundry worker drank from a shungite-filtered spring, recovered, told the Tsar, and his descendants were exempt from taxes forever Category: History & Legend Topic started 3 months 3 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 3 months 3 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:157	Last Post by Research 3 months 3 weeks ago
Petrozavodsk has a free shungite museum. They serve you tea brewed in shungite water. Category: History & Legend Topic started 3 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 3 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:171	Last Post by Research 3 months 4 weeks ago
The Soviet state created a shungite-research trust in 1928 and ran it for nine years before deciding the rock was not the coal substitute they had hoped for Category: History & Legend Topic started 3 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 3 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:148	Last Post by Research 3 months 4 weeks ago
The 1792 explorer who described shungite without knowing what to call it Category: History & Legend Topic started 3 months 4 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 3 months 4 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:145	Last Post by Research 3 months 4 weeks ago
The winged black serpent and the stone that bears its name Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 1 day ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 1 day ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:208	Last Post by Research 4 months 1 day ago
Russian regional tradition says shungite kept Peter the Great's army healthy at Poltava in 1709 while the Swedes died of dysentery Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 5 days ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 5 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:213	Last Post by Research 4 months 5 days ago
Fifteen names for one rock: the Russian and Karelian terms shungite has been called over three centuries Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 6 days ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 6 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:188	Last Post by Research 4 months 6 days ago
A vessel of evil spirits and an attribute of sorcerers: tracing the lore back Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 6 days ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 6 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:203	Last Post by Research 4 months 6 days ago
The Soviet engineer who spent 56 years working on shungite died one year before the room he designed opened Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:201	Last Post by Research 4 months 1 week ago
Russian icon-painters used shungite as a natural black pigment in the 17th and 18th centuries Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:159	Last Post by Research 4 months 1 week ago
The St Petersburg professor who gave the rock its name Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:162	Last Post by Research 4 months 1 week ago
The Romanov dynasty's debt to a Karelian spring Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:201	Last Post by Research 4 months 1 week ago
Vladimir Dahl's 1863 Russian dictionary defines the rock by its serpent-name and lists three uses for it — a snapshot of what shungite meant to Russian-speakers thirteen years before it had its modern name Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:180	Last Post by Research 4 months 1 week ago
Russian regional tradition says Petrine artillery pieces were painted with shungite. The trail leads through Konchezerо and goes cold in the foundry archives. Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:143	Last Post by Research 4 months 1 week ago
Why one Russian regional source calls shungite "the secret stone of tsars" Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:203	Last Post by Research 4 months 1 week ago
Olonets blackness: the shungite-derived pigment that competed with Roman black and Cologne black on the 19th-century European pigment trade Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:145	Last Post by Research 4 months 1 week ago
The Petrozavodsk fullerene-molecule fountain (1996) and the shungite-rock monument (2017): the Karelian capital built civic monuments to its rock Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 4 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:155	Last Post by Research 4 months 1 week ago

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