Archaeological Excavations in Zaryadye at the Construction Site of a High-Rise Building

Moscow city. Excavation site in the southern part of Kitay-gorod in Zaryadye near the Kremlin and Red Square, where from ancient times there was a street "Velikaya", built up with houses of boyars and small artisans of the 16th-17th centuries. Students of the Lomonosov Moscow State University are working. The head of excavation No. 1, archaeologist G. P. Smirnova, cleans the mold from the soil for casting pins and jewelry. Excavation site No. 1, in which an old log cabin of a wooden house was discovered. Loading soil from the excavation site onto vehicles. Finds of excavation No. 2: counting tag; archer-shaped leather shoe. View of the foundations and parts of the building at excavation site No. 3. The artist draws a plan of the discovered building. Panorama of excavation No. 3. Cleaning of the log pavement of Velikaya Street. Clearing the ground from the discovered log house of the 17th century.

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1949