Nimenga parish of the Onega uyezd in Arkhangelsk province: construction history

The study presents the history of constructing a church complex in Nimenga settlement from the Onezhsky district of the Arkhangelsk region, one of the understudied objects of Russian wooden architecture. The paper analyzes previously unpublished archival sources of the XIX century dealing with the construction of the first wooden churches (the Church of the Annunciation and the Church of the Transfiguration), two cemetery chapels, and Yudmozero Church of the Theotokos of Tikhvin (1863) in the Nimenga Parish of the Onega uyezd (Arkhangelsk province). The study is also based on the on-site field inspections of the preserved historical objects - the Church of the Transfiguration (1878) and the bell tower (1764), which enabled the authors to graphically recreate the original appearance of these objects. As a result, the authors introduced new factual data to the academic community, traced the construction timeline, described the specific architectural features of the studied objects, and made conclusions about the full construction history of the Nimenga church complex between the XVII and the XIX centuries.