The canal system of Bolshoy Solovetsky Island

This essay on the Sovovetsy canal system is by Ekaterina Kalemeneva, who was our guide last summer on the Network's field trip to the Solovetskii islands.

A new show of contemporary Russian photography opens in London

See http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/2709/russia-landscape-photography-prokudin-gorsky#.U6LrFLGmXqE 

Life in a Real Nuclear Wasteland

Strange illnesses in one of the most contaminated towns in the world challenge what we think we know about the dangers of radioactivity.

This article (2013) by Kate Brown, visiting researcher with the Network, is about people living on a contaminated river in the Russian Urals:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/04/nuclear_contamination_in_former_ussr_radioactivity_in_muslomovo_on_techa.html

Read more about Kate Brown on the UMBC website http://history.umbc.edu/facultystaff/full-time/kate-brown/

View a list of all people involved in the Network on the Network website http://www.york.ac.uk/history/research/majorprojects/russiasenvironmentalhistory/#tab-3

Book: Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

Kate Brown (University of Maryland Baltimore County) is a Visiting Researcher with the Network.

Here is a link to a recent exchange about her latest book "Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters" (Oxford University Press, 2013). http://www.secondworldurbanity.org/book-discussions/oh-utopia-where-are-you/

Read more about Kate Brown on the UMBC website http://history.umbc.edu/facultystaff/full-time/kate-brown/

View a list of all people involved in the Network on the Network website http://www.york.ac.uk/history/research/majorprojects/russiasenvironmentalhistory/#tab-3