Disappearing Lands: Resource Extraction, Land Use, and Indigenous Land Rights in the Russian Arctic ...

• Main Author: Belolyubskaya, Galina
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2025
• Subjects: Indigenous people; Russia; Sakha Republic; Evenki community; Land use; Anthropology; FOS: Sociology; Arctic; Evenki; Sakha; Republic of Sakha; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/49024; https://ucalgary.scholaris.ca/handle/1880/121434

This dissertation examines Indigenous land rights in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the largest and one of the most resource-rich regions of Russia. The historical and ongoing expansion of extractive industries continues to profoundly affect the lives of Indigenous communities in the region. One s...