2025/4(43)
Contents
BASIC RESEARCH
The value matrix of national cultureas the basis for the formation
of a system of cultural heritage objects
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
In memory of rear admiral
Viktor Ananyevich Dygalo,
a participant in the Great Patriotic war and Victory Day Parade 1945
Member of the Moscow archaeological society,
the moskvoved M.I.Alexandrovsky (1865–1943) – biography and scientific heritage (based on the materials from the State Historical Museum and the Russian State Library)
Image of the Great Victory
in the spatial-symbolic structure
of the cities of Western Siberia
Military discipline in the system
of military education of servicemen of the Russian army in 1855-1914
Family Service as a Contribution
to Russia’s Historical and Cultural Heritage
MARINE CULTURAL HERITAGE
Program “Memory of the Russian Arctic” of the Marine Arctic Complex Expedition at the Natural Heritage: concept, implementation, prospects
Search for the vessel Willem Barents. Results of the expeditions of the Russian Geographical Society and the Ministry of Defense
of Russia to survey Severny Island
of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago
in 2024 and 2025
INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
Symphonic creativity in Abkhazia: socio-cultural aspect
RUSSIAN FOREIGN HERITAGE
Architecture of Alaskan Orthodox Churches
CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDIES
Historical-navigational experiment: theory, methodology, practice
Ornamented on-grave posts
of the Tobol-Irtysh Tatars:
interpretation of cultural heritage
Problems of studying and preserving domestic antiquities in the last quarter of the 19th century
in the letters from the members
of the Moscow Archaeological Society in the funds
of the State Historical Museum
MUSEOLOGY
Cultural cooperation between Vietnam and Russia in the museum studies in Vietnam (1991–2025)
Publ. 26/11/2025
Archives
DOI 10.34685/HI.2025.30.92.009
Filin P.
Search for the vessel Willem Barents. Results of the expeditions
of the Russian Geographical Society and the Ministry of Defense of Russia
to survey Severny Island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in 2024 and 2025
Abstract. At the end of the 16th century, the Dutch made a number of attempts to find a Northeastern passage to India and China. The most famous was the third expedition of Willem Barents (1596/97). Unable to find a way to China, Barents wintered on Novaya Zemlya, and his ship froze in the ice. After wintering, the Dutch left the frozen ship at Cape Spory Navolok and got out on two boats. In the 20th century, the wintering site was repeatedly visited by expeditions that conducted archaeological excavations and research, but all attempts to find the Barents vessel underwater were unsuccessful. In 2024 An expedition of the Russian Geographical Society and the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Northern Island survey of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago surveyed the coastal waters and recorded three objects similar to wooden beams lying on the bottom at a depth of about 2-3 m. In 2025, a survey was conducted in the same area using an underwater towed metal detector, during which a spot of 150x50 m was recorded. with powerful magnetic signals. The researchers suggest that these may be fragments and cargo of the sunken ship of the Barents. The found place is located about 350 m from the shore and slightly north of the area of the previous searches carried out by D.Kravchenko. This discovery gives hope that the Barents vessel will be found during the upcoming underwater archaeological research.
Keywords: Russian Geographical Society, Willem Barents, Novaya Zemlya, sunken ship, underwater heritage, Ice Harbor, Spory Navolok, Integrated Marine Arctic Expedition (IMAE).
Filin Pavel Anatolievich,
PhD in History, Senior Researcher, Likhachev Russian Research Institute
for Cultural and Natural Heritage (Moscow),
Senior Researcher of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
named after Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) (Saint-Petersburg)
Email: pfilin@yandex.ru
Published: The Heritage Institute Journal, 2025/4(43)
URL: http://nasledie-journal.ru/en/journals/808.html
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Likhachev Russian Research
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