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Arctic urbanization as a Soviet global project on the example of Norilsk. 1935 - the first quarter of the XX century

2025· article· en· W4412482107 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueHerald of an Archivist · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicArctic and Russian Policy Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuarter (Canadian coin)UrbanizationThe arcticArcticHistoryGeographyClimatologyArchaeologyEconomic growthOceanographyEconomicsGeology

Abstract

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The article considers Soviet activities in the Arctic zone as a manifestation of the policy of globalism. The ideas on which the Soviet project as a whole was based were global in nature: world revolution, creation of a new man and society, transformation of nature, etc. One of such global projects was the inclusion of the Arctic space in economic processes, which was realized throughout the entire Soviet period of history. One of such global projects was the inclusion of the Arctic space in economic processes, which was realized throughout the entire Soviet period of history. Urban planning became an important element of the Arctic development. The source base of the article consists of documents from 3 archives - the Russian State Archive of Economics (RGAE), the State Archive of Krasnoyarsk Krai (GAKK) and the Norilsk City Archive, interviews collected by the author, as well as published memoirs of Norilsk residents. The sources used allow us to cover the topic on several levels - national, regional, local and personal. Norilsk is one of the 7 large Soviet Arctic cities. It started as a settlement at the combine, with a rather low level of amenities. However, the rejection of forced labor and the extreme conditions of the Polar region required the implementation of ideas that previously existed only in a propaganda format. Thanks to high salaries, measures to develop infrastructure and improve living comfort, the population of Norilsk was actively growing. Along with the population growth, the number of specialists in various fields was also increasing, contributing to the enrichment of the urban environment. When they left for the mainland, they did not break ties with Norilsk, forming a kind of diaspora that covered not only the USSR territory, but also a number of other countries. As a result, Norilsk outgrew its monofunctionality and became a full-fledged urban settlement with a developed environment and strong social ties, and a significant research base was developed on the methods of production, construction, and human adaptation to the conditions of the North. All this allowed Norilsk to become an important reference point in the process of Arctic exploration in the past, present and future. It was proved that people can live and work above the Arctic Circle, that it is possible to build cities and develop settlement systems. It was not possible to achieve complete city improvement and protection from the harsh climate, but successful solutions to a number of important issues were found. The experience of Soviet urbanization in the Arctic Circle, including Norilsk, is widely demanded in the world and is of great importance for the further development of high latitudes.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.742
Threshold uncertainty score0.965

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

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Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.283 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it