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

• Published in: Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
• Main Authors: Peter Schweitzer, Povoroznyuk, Olga
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Arctic Russia; Northern Sea Route; infrastructure; socio-economic transformations; environmental change; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Sakha; Tiksi; Yakutiya; Climate change; lena river
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2051455

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...