Viking age colony near Shuya creek in vicinity of Petrozavodsk

The analysis of weapons and ornaments dating back to the Viking Age found during robbery excavations of the burial grounds near Petrozavodsk is presented in the article. The collection (a complex without any connection to a particular burial) includes 25 items. The found items were allegedly produced at the end of the X and beginning of the XI centuries (in general, they were created before 1050). The majority of the items share wide analogies characteristic of the Viking Era in the Baltic Sea region (with multiple features inherent to southwestern Finland and central Sweden). At the same time, east European analogies are concentrated in the burial mounds of the southeastern region of Ladoga Lake. Some findings can be traced along a geographically logical route: Pasha River - Svir’ River -Lake Onego. The author claims that the found burial grounds together with the findings excavated around Shuya creek have Finnish-Scandinavian origin. The author correlates them with the activity of kylfingar as they are mentioned in the Old Norse sources.