Infrastructural legacies and post-Soviet transformations in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia

• Published in: Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
• Main Authors: Schweitzer, P., Povoroznyuk, O.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Sakha; Tiksi; Yakutiya; Climate change; lena river; Northern Sea Route
• Online Access: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/18302/; https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2051455; https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/18302/1/Infrastructural%20legacies%20and%20post%20Soviet%20transformations%20in%20Northern%20Sakha%20Yakutiya%20Russia.pdf

The town of Tiksi came into being in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union intensified its efforts to industrialize the Arctic. A critical element of that policy was to make the Northern Sea Route a viable Arctic shipping lane and Tiksi, located where the Lena River meets the Arctic Ocean, became an impo...