Ksenofontov, Stanislav

This presentation aims to synthesize an existing academic and gray literature on Russian energy megaprojects, their past, present and potential impacts on ecosystems and sustainability of Indigenous communities in Sakha Republic, Northeast Siberia. The presentation will employ the concept of infrastructural violence as an analytical tool and describe energy megaprojects along with their infrastructural facilities often portrayed as beneficial and benign, but which may inflict violence on fragile ecosystems and vulnerable Indigenous communities. Using megaprojects of “East Siberia-Pacific Ocean” as well as the “Power of Siberia” as a case study, the presentation will examine the tenuous yet increasingly detrimental forms of infrastructural violence that take place in southwest regions of Sakha Republic where Indigenous Evenki and Sakha hunters, fishers, herders and gatherers reside.