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This paper presents the results of an expedition to the White Sea coast, Cape Kindo, Kandalaksha Bay. There were several destroyed wooden buildings discovered. Based on the few written records and plans available, it is a remote part of the central Solovetsky camp, the first testing ground for the new Soviet repressive system. In 2014 and 2015, two expeditions were organized in the area of their location. To accurately determine the period to which a particular building belongs, the selection of wood samples was made from the surviving walls for dendrochronological dating. Most samples were taken from the side of the logs where the outer growth rings are preserved. These external growth rings are most important for dating, because the outer ring indicates the date when the tree was cut. The dating of the samples was carried out by the method of cross-dating with the master chronology of the Scoth pine from Solovetsky region. The length of the chronology from the camps is 350 years (1929-1580). Chronology exhibited high inter-series correlations (R=0,44, p < 0.01), which indicates the high reliability of dating