The towns of “old BAM” in the streams of new industrialization

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  • Irina Savchenko Federal Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology

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https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/84.2561

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stable uncertainty, epistemological urbanism, humanitarian analytics, industrial town, urban intellectual resource

Abstract

The article shows how the towns of “old BAM”, such as Taishet, Bratsk, Ust-Kut, at different times became focused on the manufacturing industry. It is shown how the status of a manufacturing town affects human flows to and from the town.
The author expresses concerns about how new enterprises are creating a ‘parallel reality’ in the towns. Indigenous people are not involved in the new industrial transformations and leave the manufacturing towns, where the number of people is supported by shift workers.

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Savchenko, I. (2025). The towns of “old BAM” in the streams of new industrialization. Project Baikal, 22(84), 127–131. https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/84.2561

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2025-07-18

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No. 84 (2025): flows

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refereed articles

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