А.Ю. Жуков.
Традиционное природопользование в приграничной Карелии и государство (XIII–XVII вв.)
// Труды КарНЦ РАН. No 2. Зеленый пояс Фенноскандии. 2009. C. 103-114
A.Yu. Zhukov. Traditional Nature Use in Karelian Borderland and the State (13th – 17th cent.) // Transactions of Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Science. No 2. Green Belt of Fennoscandia. 2009. Pp. 103-114
Keywords: Korela land, colonization for farming, traditional nature use, commune, self-government, political and legal system.
The paper describes the system of nature use in border areas of Karelia in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era. Border areas of Karelia are regarded as a relatively integral spatial unit called «Korela land». The author argues people had begun using the land for farming before it was administratively drawn up and governmental bodies were established there. Peasants' self-government relied on community arrangements, and state government integrated this order into its political and legal system. Russian-Swedish contacts in the border area took these circumstances into account even in conflict-necessitated border demarcation in 1621.
