Forestry villages in the Russian North - social capital and subsistence at the margins

This paper focuses on conditions in forestry villages in the northern rayony of Perm’ oblast’, in European Russia, which form part of the Russian "Near North". It describes the collapse of the local forestry economy after 1991, and against the backdrop of these economic conditions, the pap...

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Published in:Belgeo
Main Author: Dominique Moran
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
French
Published: Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography 2001
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4000/belgeo.15098
https://doaj.org/article/acd7aaeac0de4dcd8e88cf497874c130
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Summary:This paper focuses on conditions in forestry villages in the northern rayony of Perm’ oblast’, in European Russia, which form part of the Russian "Near North". It describes the collapse of the local forestry economy after 1991, and against the backdrop of these economic conditions, the paper then discusses the survival strategies being employed by the inhabitants of the villages of these rayony, such as outmigration, household bifurcation, use of domestic and environmental resources, and the importance of social capital. The paper draws some conclusions about the interplay between rural depopulation, social capital, and marginalisation in villages in these northern rayony.