News from the fields

Have you ever wondered why there are so many lost, forgotten and completely disappeared distant villages in the Non-Black Earth Zone of Russia? For many comrades, the tract of a village or farm that disappeared during Soviet times is just a…

Background In 2012, the cost of manufacturing (minting) a coin with a face value of 1 kopeck was 47 kopecks. That year, the Central Bank decided to suspend the minting of coins with a face value of 1 — 5 kopecks. At the moment, these…

This year I had a very interesting conversation on the field with a couple of comrades. A man of about forty and a young guy, maybe a son, maybe a nephew. As usual, we talked about this and that, about finds, who had brought up anything…

On a frozen forest road, standing upright on a high hillock, stood a UAZ “loaf” of classic green color. Two people, putting an old blanket on them, were fiddling around under the bottom of the car in the area of ​​the rear left wheel, two…

The readers of our site are experienced people who have extensive skills in the field of Kopar hobby. We know this from your comments, questions and topics that interest you. However, I am convinced that information about the new device,…

And again, another interesting find in a plowed field prompted me to study the historical event itself. And I must say that I liked the story, a huge amount of detailed material on the topic, the views of different historians, documents,…

But only when Martyn-Solsky arrived, the left-hander was already finished, because the back of his head was split on the paratha, and he could only pronounce one thing clearly: — Tell the sovereign that the British don’t clean their guns…

99% of the finds that we happen to pick up in plowed fields are coins or various types of metal-plastic. In general, items that carry virtually no historical information. Well, maybe just the date of manufacture. That’s why I really love…

Early in the spring morning, my fellow comrades and I decided to go to an old tract, where neither I nor my friends had been before. I looked in advance on the maps where it was and we began to get ready for the trip. The comrades put metal…

This next weekend I decided to indulge in my hobby and go to the country. The path was long, but what can you do for your favorite hobby? My story began on Friday, when after a day of work, arriving home, I quickly collected the necessary…

Hello, dear readers and subscribers of the community! I'm glad to have this opportunity to share my story. The result of which is simple and banal, there are no “knocked out” fields. The story is unremarkable and there were many…

Let's start with the fact that the house was inherited from my grandmother and my wife and I decided to redo everything. Considering that we are keen on searching, the first thought was to dig in the garden. It is small, but it is…

It was getting dark. Red and white clouds slowly melted into the sharp tops of the dark green forest. Silence. Only a rare breath of wind will tickle the old birch tree, which in response will scold the quiet whisper of the foliage. A lone…

Hello! It was about 4 years ago, I had a friend who was drinking heavily, and one day he told me that he had an old house in a village in the Volosovsky district of the Leningrad region. Of course, I was interested in this and I invited him…

Good day! I've been planning this for a long time and finally decided to write my story. I'm afraid that if it is published, there may be a lot of angry reviews, but I hope for the best. Believe it or not in this story. You will…

I became interested in digging 5 years ago when I purchased a metal detector, but my passion for Russian history has gripped me since childhood. I grew up in a family in which almost every generation of men were combatants. I consider…