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Russian Arctic Exploration
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Kotyrlo E., Skupchenko J.
Russian travellers have played a significant role in Arctic explorations. Some of them sacrificed their lives to bring knowledge of this region to the rest of the world.
Bruno A., Kalemeneva E., , in: The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions.: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Ch. 19 P. 462–486.
Armed with a worldview that explicitly valorized urban life as a more advanced stage of history, the revolutionary regime that ruled the former Russian Empire from 1917 to 1991 created new settlements throughout its terrain. Part of the thinking was that a predominantly peasant country had to embrace industrial modernity in order to achieve socialism. But the longing extended ...
Added: August 8, 2022
Orlova G., Новое литературное обозрение 2016 Т. 139 № 3 С. 205–227
В статье показывается, как в ходе челюскинской эпопеи письмо — и как социальная практика, и как базовая для модерности технология опосредования — использовалось для превращения Арктики и отдельной льдины в устройство по производству «советского». Автор сопоставляет советский случай с историей Робинзона Крузо, которую М. де Серто описал как проект письма, поддерживающий капиталистическую экспансию. Среди отличительных ...
Added: February 13, 2019
Kalemeneva E., В кн.: НАУКА, ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ И ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТАЛЬНОЕ ПРОЕКТИРОВАНИЕ. Тезисы докладов международной научно-практической конференции, профессорско-преподавательского состава, молодых ученых, 3–7 апреля 2017 г.Т. 2.: М.: МАРХИ, 2017. С. 428–430.
The article explores the projects of northern towns with artificial micro-climate created by architects from the Leningrad branch of the Soviet Academy of construction and Architecture in the 1960s. The analysis of discussions among Leningrad architects about the necessity to change living conditions for the population on arctic settlements reveals broader issues of social changes ...
Added: September 8, 2017
Lajus J., Sorlin S., Journal of Historical Geography 2014 Vol. 44 P. 44–59
While providing a brief background of the development of Scandinavian-Russian relations in the polar sciences in the early 20th c., this paper focuses on the period from the 1930s when the Stockholm geographer Hans Ahlmann developed a curiosity of the Soviet Union as a field for the practice of arctic science. Visit of the Arctic ...
Added: September 9, 2015