Ground Town

     Ground Town is one of the fortresses of Old Ladoga. The remains of the church were found during the archeological excavations. The first fortifications from the southern part of Ladoga Kremlin emerged in the 80s of the XVI century and presented a fortification of bastion type. Before the research of professor Kirpichnikov a “wooden town” linking the Kremlin from south (first defense line of the stone fortress) age-dated to the second quarter of the XVII century. The name “ground town” appeared not from the very beginning. The ground town was presented here not in “undiluted” manner. The constructors mounted the wooden reinforcements around the perimeter of the bastion fortress; the construction was named a “wooden town”. Only some time later the bastion type fortress was named Ground Town. Under the mounds of the bastion fortress an occupation layer remained untouched, the archeologists therefore still find unique archeological monuments there.