Faculty of History

Investigative Laboratory
for Local and Microhistory of Karelia (ILLMiK)

Post-graduate students:

Andrei Ryzhkov, research subject: “Soldiers-ploughmen in Karelia of 17th century: A phenomenon of defending the state border by local peasants regular regiments”

Maria Proskuryakova, research subject: “Russian forts and their garrisons on the Baltic Sea in 18th—19th centuries (An experience of micro historical investigation)”

Students engaged on degree thesis of 2006:

Daria Skosyreva, research subject: “Local peasants’ community in Karelia before Peter the Great times (in accordance with Olonets Military Commander’s Office archive materials)”

Daria Brusnitsyna, research subject: “A Monastery in Karelia of Early Modern Times (by documentary sources of mass character and acts of Olonets Military Commander’s Office archive)”

Students who are involved in the ILLMiK activity:

Irina Aristarkhova, Daria Brusnitsyna, Tatyana Chakkieva, Veniamin Drozdov, Alexander Dokuchaev, Svetlana Ivanova, Irina Kamneva, Maria Konstantinova, Evgenia Koroleva, Maria Kukhorenok, Yulia Litvin, Yulia Mindlina, Alevtina Mugacheva, Evgenia Muravitskaya, Daria Parshukova, Natalia Pavlova, Daria Skosyreva, Aleksej Sobisevich, Evgenia Suslova, Olga Yakovleva

An Investigative Laboratory for Local and Microhistory of Karelia (ILLMiK) was established on June 1, 2004, to support further education of students who chose to specialize in the field of "Archives and Documentation." The first stage of ILLMiK activity concentrates on implementing the Teaching-Editing-Research Project (TERP). TERP is under development in accordance with the agreement signed by rectors of Petrozavodsk State University (Russia) and University of Joensuu (Finland), the Director of the Max-Planck Institute for History in Goettingen (Germany) and the Director of Saint-Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences on 14 of October, 2003.

Projects

• TERP
• An Integrated Educational Structure “Practical Training for Russian Documentary Sources of the 17th century”
• “An ‘Olonets Military Commander’s Office’ archive documentary electronic collection”, has been supported by Russian Governmental Scientific Foundation, the project N 05-01-12123v. There are articles of Andrei Ryzhkov, Daria Skosyreva, Evgenia Suslova, developed in the frames of the Project.

Leader’s of ILLMiK scientific works (complete list)

More detailed information on the ILLMiK’s activity is available at the “Journal for Reports and Publications of the Investigative Laboratory for Local and Microhistory of Karelia”. In particular:

• chapter News includes announcements and information
• chapter Reports includes reports about the Laboratory everyday work, towards the Practical Trainings, and to our participation in scientific conferences, attended by photographs
• chapter New Results includes publications of some results in the research field.