Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Features of the Development of the Iconic Wooden Architecture of Nizhny Angara Based on the Materials of Dendrochronological Analysis

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2026 19 (2)
Authors
Dzyuba, Valeria V.; Glushenko, Maksim A.; Zharnikov, Zakhar Yu.; Myglan, Vladimir S.
Contact information
Dzyuba, Valeria V. : Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation); Glushenko, Maksim A.: Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation); The Bratsk City United Museum of the Angara river Development History (Bratsk, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0000-0002-0991-9422; Zharnikov, Zakhar Yu. : Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation); ; ORCID: 0000-0001-6505-0824; Myglan, Vladimir S. : Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0000-0002-5268-653X
Keywords
history of Siberia; religious buildings; Orthodox Church; dendrochronology; Bedoba; Mozgovaya
Abstract

The article discusses the possibilities of using dendrochronology to determine the date of construction of religious buildings. The object of the study was two unique monuments of wooden architecture located in the Lower Angara basin: churches in the villages of Bedoba and Mozgovaya (the Krasnoyarsk Krai). Currently, both structures are in a state of disrepair, and no information about the time and circumstances of their construction has been preserved. However, their architectural forms allow these objects to be classified as potentially significant monuments of rural religious architecture of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. The study was carried out using an interdisciplinary approach combining methods from the humanities (history) and natural sciences (dendrochronology). The key method is dendrochronological analysis, which has made it possible to determine the time when the timber for the structures under study was harvested: the church in Mozgovaya no earlier than 1904, and the church in Bedoba no earlier than 1889. It has also been established that all volumes (the temple, altar, gallery) of the objects under study were erected at the same time, despite their complex multi-component construction. The result obtained is of fundamental importance for the methodology of studying monuments of religious architecture, as well as for resolving the issue of the evolution of their architectural forms and identifying typological features. The work clearly shows that in the absence of the necessary information about the time of construction in written documentation, the only possible solution to the problem is to use the dendrochronological method in the study of architectural monuments, and the architectural complexity of religious monuments does not always indicate that they were built at different times

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424–436
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WCOKBD
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https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/158163

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