Cultural Stratum of the Late 16th - 18th Centuries Village of Nikolskoe (Today Village of Nikolo-Berezovka, Krasnokamsky District, Bashkortostan)
Thanks to ethnographic and archaeological research on the territory of Bashkortostan, some new significant objects of the early modern period have been discovered: the village of Nikolskoe (nowadays Nikolo-Berezovka of the Krasnokamsky district, the Republic of Bashkortostan), Voznesenskaya hermitage (in the Gafuriysky distict, the Republic of Bashkortostan), and the village of Arkhangelskoe (today town of Birsk). An analysis of cultural strata and stratigraphic sections obtained in the course of full-scale archaeological research made it possible to determine the boundaries of the distribution of the cultural layer at various chronological stages. Full-scale archaeological research within the territory of the village of Nikolskoye in the 16th - 18th centuries confirms the peaceful nature of settling the Kama-Belsky interfluve territory by Russians. The revealed items of material culture of the village bear evidence to hunting, fishing and long-term agricultural traditions of its inhabitants.