Exhibition "Cross and lighthouse: navigational signs of the White Sea in the 16th - early 20th centuries." in the Solovetsky Maritime Museum

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Image removed from public review package. Local review only · not public no-info · img_8686.jpg Dear friends, we inform you that on June 12 at the Solovetsky Maritime Museum an exhibition opens Cross and lighthouse: navigational signs of the White Sea in the 16th – early 20th centuries

(Solovki, June 12 – September 12, 2011)

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In the White Sea, which became the cradle of Russian Arctic navigation, a system of coastal markers began to take shape no later than the 16th century. In the early period, the main role in it was played by coastal crosses, the tradition of erecting them continued until the twentieth century. In the 18th century On the White Sea coast, the first experiments in the construction of light beacons were undertaken, and in 1913, twenty lighthouse lights showed the way to sailors: twelve large and seven small coastal ones, as well as one floating one.

The exhibition tells about Pomeranian navigation crosses and the history of five White Sea lighthouses that were of greatest importance for navigation in the Solovki region - Zhizhginsky, Solovetsky, Zhuzhmuysky, Rombaksky and Topa. The authors of the exhibition emphasize the close connection between the material and spiritual culture of the inhabitants of the Russian North, and draw attention to the deplorable state of many White Sea lighthouses at the present time. Many of the materials presented at the exhibition have never been published before.

Exhibition authors:

Alexey Laushkin, Ph.D.

Svetlana Rapenkova, Ph.D.

Artist:

Rustem Karimov

A large team took part in the work on the exhibition, here are some of the participants:

Alexey Krysanov

Dmitry Lebedev

Vasily Matonin

Evgenia Medvedeva

Tatiana Romanova

Anastasia Sorotokina

Svetlana Tyukina

Tatyana Yurieva

Unpublished materials and items from collections were used:

Russian State Archive of the Navy (St. Petersburg)

Solovetsky Maritime Museum (Solovki)

A.I. Sidorova (Arkhangelsk)

V.D. Grigorieva (Moscow)

The authors thank for their assistance:

Pyotr Boyarsky (Russian Research Institute of Pediatric and Computer Science named after D.S. Likhachev, Moscow)

Alexandra Sidorova (Arkhangelsk)

Pavel Filina (MMO, branch in St. Petersburg)

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