title: “Living the Project of a Century”: The Space of Everyday Life and Housing Mobility of the Builders of the Baikal-Amur Railway (1970–1980s)
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metadata.value: Baikalov, N. S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T12:35:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T12:35:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Baikalov N. S. ‘“Living the Project of a Century”: The Space of Everyday Life and Housing Mobility of the Builders of the Baikal-Amur Railway (1970–1980s)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 8, no. 4, 2018, pp. 998–1016.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2018.414
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15290
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The housing problem was common to all socialist construction projects in Siberia, including the largest
  project of the late Soviet period: the building of the Baikal-Amur Railway (BAR). The forced pace of construction
  at the facility, as well as privileges and benefits for working in hard northern conditions, led to uncontrolled
  migration into the BAR zone. The housing shortage made people look for new forms of “living”: tents, trailers,
  barracks, self-made houses, workplaces, and operational buildings. A whole network of cities and towns with
  a heterogeneous settlement structure around BAR developed. It consisted of comfortable urban areas for the
  accommodation of future railway workers, temporary housing complexes for transport builders, and “nakhalovki,”
  squatting housing for people arriving spontaneously. The ousing experience of BARers differed from that of the
  late Soviet standards in the organization of everyday life and special practices. In solving housing problems in
  BAR settlements, people showed greater initiative and independence. There was a wide range of formal and informal
  practices of housing mobility, and most depended on how one arrived to BAR. Organized arrivals of builders
  had more common and stable mobility lines. People, who came on their own initiative, had more diverse and
  multidirectional ways of housing and rehousing. The predominant factors of housing mobility in Soviet times were
  housing quality and changing one’s place of work. In contemporary conditions, the role of economic factors,
  such as the cost of maintaining housing, the size of housing plots, and the possibility of farming were increasing.
  Temporary and illegally erected dwellings in this situation had a number of competitive advantages, which made
  them in demand despite risks associated with a high degree of wear.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article is financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project N 18-49-
  030010 р_а and Buryat State University, project N 18-03-0502.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 8; Issue 4
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Baikal-Amur Railway
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: BAR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: late socialism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: housing construction
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: living conditions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: everyday life
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: housing practices
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social mobility
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: temporary dwellings
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nakhalovki
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “Living the Project of a Century”: The Space of Everyday Life and Housing Mobility of the Builders of the Baikal-Amur Railway (1970–1980s)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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