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‘The Thaw’ in the Arctic: constructing Mirny as a Soviet Arctic city of a new type
Urban history. 2025. Vol. 52. No. 2. P. 283–300.
The town of Mirny, which was established in 1955 in the Arctic region of Yakutia, was not only the first Soviet settlement constructed near the newly explored diamond mine; it was also one of the first industrial towns in the Soviet Arctic to be constructed from scratch in the post-World War II period, as it was never part of the Gulag legacy. Focusing on the case of Mirny, this article elucidates the new principles behind the perception of urban space in the Soviet Arctic in the 1960s. Close analysis of the first years of the town’s construction illuminates the formation of a new conception of a socialist Arctic town at that period – a town open for migration flows, with a developed public and social sphere, that was celebrated as a ‘town of youth’ or a ‘town of the future’, and yet was also a town where extreme environmental conditions had a greater influence on the life of its inhabitants than did official state directives and regulations.
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Abilova R., Вестник Томского государственного университета. История 2023 № 85 С. 141–148
The article is devoted to the photographs of Lubinskis, taken in the Soviet Union in the summer of 1928. The author reconstructs the context of the creation and existence of photographs. The research is based on digital photography collections of Spaarnestad Photo Foundation and Ullstein Bildarchiv, Kurt Lubinski`s travelogue book “This is our world” (1938), ...
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Young P. I., Журнал фронтирных исследований 2026 Т. 11 № 3 С. 85–106
In 1876, a group of Swedish ironworkers arrived at the Urals in order to construct modern Swedish blast furnaces and modernize the local metal production. On the Ural frontier, they encountered a multiethnic environment populated by Russians, Germans, and Bashkirs. The present article examines the relations between the Swedish colonists and the local population with ...
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Шистерова А. Д., Сибирские исторические исследования 2026 № 2 С. 213–231
The article analyzes the sources that were presented in the emissaries’ accounts of the first two embassies from the Muscovite kingdom to China. This analysis identifies key trends that influenced the languages of space and China description development. It emphasizes the uniqueness of each emissaries’ account and the distinctive methods ambassadors used for working with ...
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Grishina D., Soloviev A., Международная аналитика 2026 Т. 17 № 2 С. 10–29
This publication analyzes the historical and geopolitical context of the formation and development of the concept of the “Russian threat” – a public narrative about the territorial ambitions of the Russian Empire that became widespread in Northeast Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the example of the concept’s origins and transformation ...
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Chunikhin K., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 250–275
The article explores the unique role of American visual art in Soviet culture. ...
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This Handbook examines relations between Japan and Korea from 1850 to the present.
Analyzing almost 200 years of Japan and Korea relations uncovers a relationship that has been both congenial and confrontational. This Handbook examines these relations in this age of modernity by dividing it into four periods: precolonial relations (1850–1905); colonial rule (1905–1945); post-war/post-liberation (1945–1965); ...
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Рязанов П. А., Софронова Л. В., Диалог со временем 2026 № 94 С. 36–50
Among the Roman pontiffs who proclaimed crusades against the Turks, Pius II (1458-1464) stands out for having publicly declared his intention to go to war and backed it up with concrete actions. His death in Ancona, from where he was about to set sail for the East, can be perceived as a feat of faith ...
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Филянов Н. А., Вестник древней истории 2026 Т. 86 № 2 С. 388–408
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Voloshina S., Логос 2025 Т. 35 № 2 (165) С. 193–233
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Voloshina S., СПб.: Владимир Даль, 2016.
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Voloshina S., М.: Издательский дом «Дело» РАНХиГС, 2022.
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Потехина И. П., СПб.: Евразия, 2026.
В центре внимания этой книги развитие папской власти в период с середины VIII до конца XII в. — в эпоху, когда римская церковь из локального религиозного центра, пусть и засвидетельствовавшего свое апостольское происхождение, постепенно превращалась в одну из главных политических сил европейского континента. Автор показывает, как выстраивались отношения преемников ап. Петра с франкскими правителями, византийскими ...
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Потехина И. П., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 2. История 2026 Т. 71 № 2 С. 525–533
The review is dedicated to the fourth volume of the “History of the Roman Popes” (2024), which represents a continuation of the long-term scholarly project lead by the philosopher and historian Vitaly L. Zadvorny. The volume itself is dedicated to the popes of the 11th - early 13th centuries and generally continues the traditions laid down in ...
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Bogacheva A., Клио 2025 № №2(218) С. 28–32
The article is devoted to the changes in public views on the world of childhood at the turn of the
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Glushkov A., В кн.: Пермь – город культуры и инноваций: материалы Всероссийской научно-практической конференции (Пермь, ПГНИУ, 3 октября 2024 г.).: Пермский государственный национальный исследовательский университет, 2024. С. 230–237.
After the end of the Civil War, the new authorities of Perm were faced with the need to solve the housing issue, the severity of which had been growing throughout the 1920s. One of the solutions was to be housing cooperatives, which began in 1922 and had two forms - housing rental cooperative societies (ZhAKT) ...
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Glushkov A., В кн.: Город Пермь – 300 лет в истории России. Материалы всероссийской научно-практической конференции (Пермь, ПГНИУ, 8 июня 2023 г.).: Пермский государственный национальный исследовательский университет, 2023. Гл. 8 С. 52–58.
The article, based on materials from the State Archives of the Perm Territory and periodicals, reconstructs the processes of formation of “greater Perm” and the transformation of the city in the 1920-30s. to a large industrial center. Numerous examples demonstrate that the development of the city during this period was not only accompanied by problems characteristic ...
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Agafonova A. B., Научный диалог 2023 Т. 12 № 8 С. 348–371
The article examines the social response to the introduction of new electric technologies (street lighting and trams) in cities, as well as the limitations on their use during periods of fuel crises. The concepts of “energy transition” and “shift towards consumerism” serve as the methodological basis for the study. The author relies on L. B. Kafengauz’s periodization when analyzing changes in ...
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Zaporozhets O., Riise E., Kolesnik A., Coactivity: Philosophy, Communication 2014 Vol. 22 No. 1 P. 38–52
Tsoi Wall or thousands inscriptions and drawings on the city wall appeared in Moscow in 1990 as a spontaneous reaction of the city dwellers on a tragic death of Victor Tsoy, a founder and frontman of rock group “Kino”. Today the Wall exists in multiple modes and due to the contribution of many: unnoticed in ...
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Polian P. M., Лаппо Г. М., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2008 Т. 17 № 1 С. 20–49
Наукограды – это города совершенно нового типа, возникшие в СССР преимущественно во второй половине XX в. Их появление связано с выполнением особо важных общегосударственных программ – атомной, ракетно-космической, создания современного вооружения. Их «засекреченный» статус и «герметичный» режим объясняются тем, что наукограды - прямые детища советской системы, находившейся в перманентном состоянии холодной войны с враждебным империалистическим ...
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Zaporozhets O., Неприкосновенный запас. Дебаты о политике и культуре 2012 № 86 (6) С. 285–289
The author rediscovers a book published two decades ago. A book of John Bushnell, an American historian, explores graffiti in late 1980’s Moscow. It was written when Russian scholars and urbanites did not consider inscriptions on the walls as something significant. Bushnell tells about inscriptions made by different subcultures: sport fans, rockers, political and social ...
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