Multifactorial analysis of the probable location of Albazin Spassky Monastery

   The actual existence of the Albazin Spassky Monastery, as one of the first religious buildings of the Christian religion of the XVII century on the Amur, is unequivocally confirmed and does not cause any doubts. At the same time, its true location remains an urgent debatable problem, since domestic archival sources allow for significant discrepancies. Applied research conducted in the field of national history, as a rule, faces the problem of poor detail and semantic fragmentation of even well-preserved archival data, which have been successfully introduced into the current scientific circulation. In this regard, the emergence of such a new direction as Digital Humanities has provided remote access to digital sites and electronic documents and has significantly expanded traditional areas of humanitarian knowledge, including in National history. The similar approach applied by the authors in the work is based on the integration of classical methods of historical research with powerful tools of modern IT technologies, for example, publicly available geographic information systems. At the same time, the results generated with its help have an undoubted advantage - full-fledged visual visibility, which greatly facilitates the time-consuming procedure of factual verification of their reliability. The implementation of the author's technology under consideration consists in high-precision topographic mapping of the actual location of the completely lost architectural complex, as well as information integration of archival records with their cartographic counterparts and corresponding archaeological data. The semantic generalization of the original historical data, implemented through their parametric computer processing, makes it possible to dramatically increase the overall level of visual detail of the events under study, and formulate the most promising direction for archaeologists to discover the remains of the Spassky Monastery.

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