Linked Networks
Leverhulme International Network Workshop: Exploring Russia’s Environmental History and Natural Resources
This network comprises specialists from York and Glasgow universities in the UK, Georgetown and Ohio State universities in the USA, and the European University and Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg, Russia.
The network’s activities revolve around a series of annual workshops/field trips to specific locations: the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea; the Chernobyl’ exclusion zone in Ukraine; and Lake Baikal in Siberia. The project combines field work in these locations with conventional historical research in order to enhance our understanding of the history of Russian scientific research, exploitation of natural resources, environmental disasters, and nature conservation.
See: http://www.york.ac.uk/history/research/majorprojects/russiasenvironmentalhistory/