NIKOLSKAYA  CHURCH  1762
  in  the  village  of  Nyonox
  Archangelsk Region
  Coast of the White Sea
  
  The existing Nikolskaya Church with a heating system in the village of Nyonox was built "in this place ... again after a fire". It was built through the efforts ...of parishioners ... and in 1762 it was sanctified. From 1840 to 1843 the church building was significantly reconstructed. In addition to repairs, "vestry and sacristy" were built, " a watch-box " and a covered porch joined the refectory from the west. A new chapel named after Paraskeva the Friday was set up in the south-eastern corner of the refectory: the altar from the disassembled church of the same name located nearby on the south side was brought herein. At that time the wooden framework was planked and painted. In 1884 the interior walls were covered with canvas and whitewashed with "chalk based on glue". In 1894 the canvas was covered with deal-board tongue and groove joints and painted white. In 1897 during the last repairs the church was painted to match the Trinity Church and the Belfry.
        In 1994 "The Architectural-and-Restoration Centre of A. Popov" began restoration of the Nikolskaya Church, scientific methods of restoration work were determined by a draft of church restoration drawing  which included recommendations of the Ministry of Culture Commission. One of major objectives of the project is to preserve original components of the monument. However, due to the emergency condition of the Nikolskaya Church, it was not possible to be limited to its preservation only: in order to restore wooden framework structural strength, it was required to perform complete overhaul and replace logs whose stmctural strength was gone.
  
  Church during disassembly allowed to obtain new data on its architecture and The research of the Nikolskaya construction technology. It was identified that the initial coating of the "shater" (dome-shaped roof) of the cube and the sanctuary barrel in the form of divided share ("lemekh") was almost intact under the layers of deal of a later period. There were identified all necessary architectural-and-constructive data of barrels -small tower rooms crowning the corners of the cube wooden framework in the points where an octagon emerges from a lower cube.
   Open test pit revealed the number of lost timber sets of the monument. The research work identified techniques of setting up the central post of the "shater" rafter construction and radial cross-bars which thrusting at the post and "shater" binding created a rigid disk of the construction. There were found joints of inside scaffolding used to build the cathedral in the XIX century and numerous marks of ancient cutting techniques for logs and other parts. These marks comply with wood processing technology restored by A. Popov during restoration of the Church named after Dmitry Solunsky (1784) in the village of Verkhnyaya Uftuga. Also, it became clear that technical condition of the wooden framework and other structural units of the Nikolskaya Church is much worse than it is specified in the Draft drawing of restoration of 1991.
          Quality and volume of new data on architecture and methods of building the Nikolskaya Church which were made available during restoration made it necessary to adjust its initial restoration project. The adjusted option is agreed upon with the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in 1995.