Living side by side: the water environment, technological control and urban culture in the Russian and Western history

Maughan, Nicolas; Kraikovski, Alexey; Lajus, Julia

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“…We consider the problem of knowledge as a key instrument of environing of the surrounding waterscapes (Maughan, Kraikovski, Lajus 2018). We understand here knowledge as a social construct, shaped by complicated collective imaginaries and governed by influential groups of actors.…”

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“…They interacted with this water area quite actively through all sorts of water mobility, which was central to the transportation connectivity and logistics of the Baltic metropolis in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Because of the specific waterscape, formed by the large river delta, and the morphology of the city, that from the very beginning, developed on all sides of the river and its tributaries, the dwellers experienced water travellers even if they were not professionally linked to navigation (Kraikovski 2018;2022a). It is wellknown that the dwellers of St. Petersburg perceived the Neva River and the Gulf as the central space of the city, opened for active interaction all year round, and perhaps as ice surface was not less important than as a water stream (Kraikovski 2022b).…”

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3 | 1 | 2023 Framing Environments in Russia: Critical Reflections on Ecology, Culture and Power

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in the area of Russian ecocriticism, considering the economic and political value of fossil fuels in the Soviet and post-Soviet period, is represented by recent research on oil and its multiple interconnections with the development of Russian cultural identity (e.g. Rogers 2015; Etkind 2020; Porter, Vinokour 2023). Finally, on the basis of the cited studies, in 2020 Alec Brookes and Elena Fratto edited the monographic issue "Anthropocene and Russian Literature" of the journal Russian Literature, aimed at rethinking the otherthan-human in Russian literature considering the geological impact of humankind in the Anthropocene.Given these premises, the special issue "Framing Environments in Russia: Critical Reflections on Ecology, Culture and Power" originates from our intent to stress the raising importance of ecocritical theory and environmental ethics in contemporary research involving Russia and the Soviet Union. The idea of framing does not imply here an attempt to further delimit the other-than-human, this time through the cultural lens of the ecological thought. On the contrary, framing is understood in its meaning of expressing, constructing, developing new flourishing perspectives on Russian natural environment, in order to show its complexity, as well as its deep interconnections with human experience. To this end, great emphasis has been put on the agency of the other-than-human, conceived not only as an object of cultural conceptualizations, but mainly as active matter penetrating, transforming and reshaping physical and mental landscapes. Besides, the multidisciplinary approaches taken by the authors of this issue highlight the urgency to re-think social structures and hierarchical logics of power in order to preserve both cultural and natural environments. As observed by Wendy Wheeler, Environmental damage […] means both damage in nature and damage in culture; these are not, essentially, different things. Environmental literacy must be understood to encompass natural, social, cultural and, by implication, emotional literacy also. (2006, 155) All ten essays included in this special issue address the conceptualization of the natural environment in Russia by engaging with a diverse range of cultural expressions which encompasses activist prose, fiction, poetry, art, and cinema.Since the nineteenth century, human identities in Russian literature have been depicted as inextricably intertwined and creatively interdependent with natural forces, which, in turn, play a crucial role as agents of transformation. The opening contribution, written by J. Alexander Ogden, analyses Nikolay Nekrasov's poem Red-Nose Frost (Мороз, Красный нос Moroz, Krasnyj nos, 1863

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“…Быстрый уровень урбанизации требовал большого притока людей в города империи, усиливал загрязнение пространства. Особенно остро эта проблема рассматривалась относительно городских рек и каналов, выполнявших роль главного источника питьевой воды [Maughan et al, 2018]. Одним из способов улучшения городского пространства и снижения эпидемического уровня было строительство водных инфраструктур [Обертрайс и др., 2019].…”

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Educational Activities of Omsk Medical Society in Late XIX - Early XX Century

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2023

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At the end of XIX - beginning of XX centuries members of the Omsk Medical Society began to give public lectures to the townspeople. During this period, doctors throughout the Russian Empire carried out active educational activities, the purpose of which was to familiarize society with new sanitary practices and prevent epidemics. The purpose of this article is to study the educational activities of Omsk doctors in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, to achieve which we will turn to the issues that the lecturers raised in their speeches and their professional qualifications. For their presentations, lecturers chose topics related to both general issues of the development of medical science and addressed local sanitary problems. So public lectures became a platform for discussing urban problems. Doctors acted as experts, both for the authorities and for the townspeople. Omsk doctors were welltrained specialists with extensive practical experience, as well as actively engaged in scientific activities. Reading public lectures gave them the opportunity to take part in the educational activities of the scientific societies of Omsk, as well as to do charity work.

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The Gulf of Finland as an Unknown Waterscape that Needs to Be Tamed Perceptions, Imaginaries and Knowledge in Imperial St. Petersburg

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2023

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The paper summarizes the study of St. Petersburg as a center of multifaceted control and management of the adjacent lagoonscape through the perspective of knowledge as a social construct. We argue that the dwellers of the Russian capital knew their surrounding environment in a variety of ways. We can distinguish knowledge based on perception, imagination, and observation, and these three societal mechanisms of dealing with the nature of the Neva inlet, the most eastern part of the Gulf of Finland, shaped the ways of development of St. Petersburg as the center of complicated network interactions that eventually created the St. Petersburg maritime empire.

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Living side by side: the water environment, technological control and urban culture in the Russian and Western history

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3 | 1 | 2023 Framing Environments in Russia: Critical Reflections on Ecology, Culture and Power

3 | 1 | 2023 Framing Environments in Russia: Critical Reflections on Ecology, Culture and Power

Educational Activities of Omsk Medical Society in Late XIX - Early XX Century

The Gulf of Finland as an Unknown Waterscape that Needs to Be Tamed Perceptions, Imaginaries and Knowledge in Imperial St. Petersburg

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