History & Legend

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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 1 week 4 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 4 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:10	Last Post by Research 1 week 4 days 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 1 week 6 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 6 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:8	Last Post by Research 1 week 6 days 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 2 weeks 22 hours ago, by Research Last Post 2 weeks 22 hours ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:11	Last Post by Research 2 weeks 22 hours 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 2 weeks 1 day ago, by Research Last Post 2 weeks 1 day ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:7	Last Post by Research 2 weeks 1 day ago
Petrozavodsk has a free shungite museum. They serve you tea brewed in shungite water. Category: History & Legend Topic started 2 weeks 3 days ago, by Research Last Post 2 weeks 3 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:9	Last Post by Research 2 weeks 3 days 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 2 weeks 5 days ago, by Research Last Post 2 weeks 5 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:9	Last Post by Research 2 weeks 5 days ago
The 1792 explorer who described shungite without knowing what to call it Category: History & Legend Topic started 2 weeks 5 days ago, by Research Last Post 2 weeks 5 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:6	Last Post by Research 2 weeks 5 days ago
The winged black serpent and the stone that bears its name Category: History & Legend Topic started 3 weeks 11 hours ago, by Research Last Post 3 weeks 11 hours ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:8	Last Post by Research 3 weeks 11 hours 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 3 weeks 4 days ago, by Research Last Post 3 weeks 4 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:9	Last Post by Research 3 weeks 4 days ago
Fifteen names for one rock: the Russian and Karelian terms shungite has been called over three centuries Category: History & Legend Topic started 3 weeks 5 days ago, by Research Last Post 3 weeks 5 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:6	Last Post by Research 3 weeks 5 days ago
A vessel of evil spirits and an attribute of sorcerers: tracing the lore back Category: History & Legend Topic started 3 weeks 5 days ago, by Research Last Post 3 weeks 5 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:5	Last Post by Research 3 weeks 5 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 weeks 7 hours ago, by Research Last Post 4 weeks 7 hours ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:8	Last Post by Research 4 weeks 7 hours ago
Russian icon-painters used shungite as a natural black pigment in the 17th and 18th centuries Category: History & Legend Topic started 4 weeks 1 day ago, by Research Last Post 4 weeks 1 day ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:7	Last Post by Research 4 weeks 1 day ago
The St Petersburg professor who gave the rock its name Category: History & Legend Topic started 1 month 3 hours ago, by Research Last Post 1 month 3 hours ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:6	Last Post by Research 1 month 3 hours ago
The Romanov dynasty's debt to a Karelian spring Category: History & Legend Topic started 1 month 4 hours ago, by Research Last Post 1 month 4 hours ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:6	Last Post by Research 1 month 4 hours 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 1 month 8 hours ago, by Research Last Post 1 month 8 hours ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:10	Last Post by Research 1 month 8 hours 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 1 month 1 day ago, by Research Last Post 1 month 1 day ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:6	Last Post by Research 1 month 1 day ago
Why one Russian regional source calls shungite "the secret stone of tsars" Category: History & Legend Topic started 1 month 1 day ago, by Research Last Post 1 month 1 day ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:10	Last Post by Research 1 month 1 day 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 1 month 1 day ago, by Research Last Post 1 month 1 day ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:9	Last Post by Research 1 month 1 day 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 1 month 3 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 month 3 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:7	Last Post by Research 1 month 3 days ago