The making of the <i>Homo Polaris</i> : human acclimatization to the Arctic environment and Soviet ideologies in Northern Medical Institutions
Journal: Settler Colonial Studies
Year: 2023

This paper examines the history of the Soviet human acclimatization project in the North and Siberia, which spanned from medical experiments in Stalin's forced labor camps to the subsequent wave of industrialization in the region. The author argues that human acclimatization in the North was a settler colonial science project aimed at facilitating Russian administrators and engineers in asserting control over the territory and its resources, while creating a new homogeneous 'indigenous populatio