Lithuanian labor migrants and the construction of the western Siberian oil-gas complex in the late USSR

CEPAİTİENE R., Kliueva V.

Journal of Baltic Studies, vol.52, no.3, pp.327-356, 2021 (SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Nəşrin Növü: Article / Article
  • Cild: 52 Say: 3
  • Nəşr tarixi: 2021
  • Doi nömrəsi: 10.1080/01629778.2021.1918734
  • jurnalın adı: Journal of Baltic Studies
  • Jurnalın baxıldığı indekslər: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, American Bibliography of Slavic & Eastern European Studies (ABSEES), Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS), Historical Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Linguistic Bibliography, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Political Science Complete
  • Səhifə sayı: pp.327-356
  • Açar sözlər: Baltic region, labor migration, lithuanians, oil-cities, siberia, the late ussr, urbanization
  • Açıq Arxiv Kolleksiyası: Məqalə
  • Adres: Bəli

Qısa məlumat

This article presents an analysis of Baltic (particularly, Lithuanian) labor migration into the interior of the USSR during the late Soviet period. The authors discuss how these Baltic labor migrants participated in the creation of infrastructure for the northern oil-gas complex in western Siberia’s Tyumen region. The data collected and subsequent research suggest that the Lithuanian road and construction industry workers, and their accompanying organizational structures, managed to establish a kind of autonomy that allowed them to maintain close links with their homelands, while also creating a role for themselves in the eyes of the local population as representatives of ‘European’ culture.