The Making of the Homo Polaris : Human Acclimatization to the Arctic Environment and Soviet Ideologies in Northern Medical Institutions

• Published in: Settler Colonial Studies
• Main Author: Arzyutov, Dmitry
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.CAFÉ UArctic Theme (Circumpolar Archives, Folkore and Ethnography), University of Aberdeen.Etnos: A Life History of the Etnos Concept, University of Aberdeen.Arctic Domus Research Group, University of Aberdeen.Anthropology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth; SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being; Human acclimatization; Industrialization; Soviet medicine; indigenous peoples; settler colonialism; Cold War; Soviet North; Siberia; GN Anthropology; European Research Council; GRETPOL; GN; Arctic; Norilsk; Bolotova; norilsk
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2164/23485; https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2023.2274673

This article could not have been completed without the invaluable assistance of my friend MikhailSolonenko, who helped by copying essential texts for this project during the challenging time oflockdown and the second Russian invasion in Ukraine. I am deeply grateful to Alla Bolotova,Andy Bruno, Roman Khandozhko, Laura Siragusa, Mikhail Nakonechnyi, and Igor Stas’for our discus-sions, their comments, and advice. I would also like to express my gratitude to NadezhdaM. Klemberg of the Norilsk City Archive, as well as the archivists of the Archive of the RussianAcademy of Sciences, the Central State Archive of Science and Technological Documentation ofSaint Petersburg, Novosibirsk State Archive, and Novosibirsk State Regional Science Library fortheir invaluable assistance with my archival research. Furthermore, I would like to extend mythanks to Irina Sandomirskaja and Myram Adjam, as well as all the participants of the AdvancedSeminar at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University. I am thankful toNikolai Ssorin-Chaikov and hiskruzhokfor their thoughtful discussions on my paper, and toAlexey Golubev for carefully reading one of thefinal drafts of the article and providing usefuladvice on accommodating diverse intellectual traditions in writing about human acclimatization.I am especially grateful to Peder Roberts for his advice and moral support throughout my doctoralstudies and afterwards. Additionally, I would like to acknowledge the two anonymous reviewers fortheir constructive criticism and recommendations. Peer reviewed