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Atomic Atlantis: Ethnography of Settled Villages

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  • Saveleva Tatyana V.
  • Danilenko Natalia B.

    (Department of Philology, Miass Branch of Chelyabinsk State University, Miass, Russian Federation)

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In 1957 there occurred a technological disaster in the Southern Urals in the form of a nuclear accident at the Mayak chemical plant in Ozersk, Soviet Union. The accident led to the resettlement of two historical centres of the first wave of the Russian colonization of the region, as the villages along the Techa river were declared restricted areas during the cleaning of the radiation trail, and their residents were resettled. As a result, the original culture of the villages was lost. The inspiration for our research is Alexey Mityunin, a local historian, enthusiast, and public activist, who collected a martyrology of the disappeared Ural villages. This paper presents the results of field expeditions to Brodokalmak carried out in 2014–2017 by students of the Miass Branch of Chelyabinsk State University, Russia. Brodokalmak is the village where the people resettled from contaminated lands Zamanikha, Boevka, and Muslyumovo live or lived.

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  • Saveleva Tatyana V. & Danilenko Natalia B., 2023. "Atomic Atlantis: Ethnography of Settled Villages," Comparative Southeast European Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 71(1), pages 32-47, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:soeuro:v:71:y:2023:i:1:p:32-47:n:5
    DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2021-0062
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