Ekaterina Kalemeneva
- Head, Associate Professor: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of History
- Senior Research Fellow: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Laboratory for Visual History
- Ekaterina Kalemeneva has been at HSE University since 2017.
Education and Degrees
HSE University, School of history
HSE University, School of history
European University in St Petersburg, history
Lomonosov Northern Arctic Federal University
Northern Arctic Federal University, history
MA, Department of History, European University at St.Petersburg, 2013
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
Additional Education
March - June, 2016 Visiting Researcher, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm
2014 (Spring term) Venice International University, Globalization program
2013 - 2014 European University at St.Petersburg, Postgraduate program
Postgraduate Studies
Dissertation title: “Making the Arctic Comfortable: Changes in Urbanization Models
for the Soviet Far North in the 1950s-1960s”
Supevisor: Julia Lajus
Awards and Accomplishments
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2020)
Courses (2024/2025)
- Historical Urban Studies (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History, field of study History; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Historical Urban Studies (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Social Life of Architechture (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History, field of study History; 1 year, 4 module)Eng
- Social Life of Architechture (Mago-Lego; 4 module)Rus
- Socialist Urbanism in Global Context (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Soviet Project in a Global Perspective (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Urban Modernization in the Soviet Union (Minor; Faculty of Humanities)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Research Seminar - 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Socialist Urbanism in Global Context (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Soviet Project in a Global Perspective (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Urban Modernization in the Soviet Union (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- History of Soviet Society (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar - 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Socialist Urbanism in Global Context (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Urban Modernization in the Soviet Union (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Research Seminar - 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Socialist Urbanism in Global Context (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2020/2021)
- A History of the World Since 1300 (Optional course (faculty); School of Arts and Humanities; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Project Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1 module)Eng
- Research Seminar - 1 (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Socialist Urbanism in Global Context (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Grants
2016 – 2018 Collective research project “Natural Resources in History of Russia: Economic Institutes, Communities of Experts and Infrastructures”, funded by Russian Science foundation. Project leader Julia Lajus
September 2016 - field reseach on Spitzbergen in the framework of the 3rd part of the research project Sustainable Communities and the Legacies of Mining in the Nordic Arctic, funded by Nordregio and based at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
2016 participant of the collective research project "Moving of the material in history: the role of natural resource, materials and goods in institutional and infrastructural development"
2015 participant of the research project "History of technology and infrastructure in Russia and the USSR: processes and practices of standardization and their participants"
2014 - 2017 International research project "Mistra Arctic Sustainable Development - New governance for sustainable development in the european Arctic".
2011 – 2013 International Research Project "Assessing Arctic Futures: Voices, Resources, and Governance", funded by Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research MISTRA, Sweden ( project leader Sverker Sorlin).
Conferences
- 2019
Общероссийская конференция ВДНХ XIII (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: “Обычные города” в необычном пространстве: дискуссии ленинградских архитекторов о создании городов на Крайнем Севере в годы Оттепели
- 2018
Пространства и общества арктического побережья России накануне новой эпохи развития Северного морского пути (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Смена моделей освоения советского Севера в 1950-е гг. Случай Комиссии по проблемам Севера АН СССР
Полярные Чтения - 2018 (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Модернизм в арктическом ландшафте: разработка экспериментальных принципов создания жилой среды в северных городах в 1960-е гг.
Transformations of the Urban. Global Perspectives on the History of Industrial Cities (Moscow). Presentation: From the “conquest of the land of snow“ to the “happy cities of youth“: transformations of the urban models in the Soviet Far North in the 1960s
- 2017
Архитектурные аспекты освоения Крайнего Севера (Москва). Presentation: Разработка нового типа поселений на Крайнем Севере СССР в 1960-е годы
High Altitudes meet High Latitudes: Globalizing Polar Issues (Crans-Montana). Presentation: Remoteness and infrastructure: knowing, living and imagining the environments of polar and alpine regions
ASEEES Annual Convention (Chicago). Presentation: Living Urban in the Soviet Arctic
- 2016
Technology, natural resources and crises in the past and present of Europe and beyond (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: The Thaw in the Soviet Arctic: constructing ‘a new Soviet city’ in the Far North (the case of town of Mirnyi)
- 2015
Cities and Science: Urban History and the History of Science in the Study of Early Modern and Modern Europe (Будапешт). Presentation: Changes in Urbanization models in the Soviet Arctic, 1950-1970s
7th Plenary Tensions of Europe Conference "Technology – Nature – Environment" (Стокгольм). Presentation: Colonizing, Exploiting, Domesticating: Changes of the Discourses and Practices of the Soviet Arctic urban development, 1930-1970
Waterscapes and Historic Canals as a Cultural Heritage (Венеция). Presentation: Adapting Northern Nature: the Development of the Canal System of Solovetsky Monastery through centuries
Living Cities of the Second World (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Making the Arctic Comfortable: Leningrad Architects in Search of Northern Urban Planning
Natural resources, Landscape and Climate in History of Russia and Neighboring countries (Saint Petersburg). Presentation: Climate as an enemy and as a resource: Soviet northern urbanism
9th Annual conference VDNKh (Выставка достижений научного хозяйства) (Saint Petersburg). Presentation: Arctic Utopias: Modernism on the Frozen Edge
- 2014
Urban Environment and Technological control in History (Венеция). Presentation: Arctic climate and the Soviet architects
- 2013
Седьмая общеуниверситетская конференция "Выставка достижений научного хозяйства" (ВДНХ-7) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Возможна ли северная архитектура? Разработка нового типа поселений на Крайнем Севере СССР в 1960-е годы
11th Annual meeting of the Association for the History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility (T2M ) “Transport and borders” (Коувола). Presentation: Broadening the borders of human-built environment in the Soviet North: new architectural designs and city planning in the second half of the 20 century
6th Plenary Tensions of Europe Conference “Democracy and Technology: Europe in Tension from 19th to 21st Century” (Париж). Presentation: Encounters of central and local experts' vision on city planning in the Soviet Arctic in the middle of the 20 century
Annual conference of the European Society for Environmental History (Мюнхен). Presentation: The Land of the Future: Changes in urban planning at the Soviet Arctic in the 1960s
- 2012
Выставка достижений научного хозяйства (ВДНХ-VI) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Выступление на Круглом столе "История технологий: современные направления исследований"
Арктическая зона Российской Федерации: Северо-Восточный вектор развития (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Урбанистическое будущее Крайнего Севера: советские градостроительные проекты
55th Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (Копенгаген). Presentation: Technology Design, City Planning, and Northern Environment at the Soviet Arctic
Science-fiction across media. Alternative Histories, Alien Futures (Умео). Presentation: Domed cities: between sci-fi and reality?
«Конструируя «советское»? Политическое сознание, повседневные практики, новые идентичности». (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: «Земля будущего»: проекты строительства крытых городов на Крайнем Севере СССР в 1950-1960-е годы
- 2011
Власть и общество в России – жизнь и государственная деятельность П.А.Столыпина (Самара). Presentation: Скандал в ”благородном семействе”: причины дискуссии вокруг сборника «Вехи» в 1909 году
Employment history
2016 - till present - Senior Lecturer, Department of History, National Research University Higher School of Economics
2015 - till present - junior researcher, Laboratory for environmental and technological history, National Research University Higher School of Economics
2013 - 2015 - research assistant, Centre for Historical Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics
2007 - 2014 tour-guide, Solovetsky state museum
Popular publications and presentations
- Какими могли быть арктические города. Материал для проекта Arzamas https://arzamas.academy/materials/1821
- Vague Borders: Blurred But Still There: Review on the book: Alan Barenberg, Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta (Yale University Press, 2014)
- «Марсианские хроники» советского Заполярья: какими могли быть арктические города будущего». #«Марсианские хроники» советского Заполярья: какими могли быть арктические города будущего» Выступление в Норильском музее (2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohOBVYbxR-0
- 91: Ленинград, Август, Свобода (Соавтор и соредактор проекта) https://august91.spb.ru/#
'Scientist's Code': Ekaterina Kalemeneva on Modernist Projects in the Arctic, Khrushchev-Era Houses and Similarity between Historians and Gold Diggers
Before the start of the academic year, we keep introducing you to the professors of HSE University-St Petersburg. Ekaterina Kalemeneva supervises the Department of History and teaches Bachelor's and Master's students. In her research, she focuses on historical urban studies, Soviet urban development and the Thaw era. We talked to the Candidate of Historical Sciences about the projects of modernist cities in the Arctic and the changes entailed by the construction of the Khrushchev-Era houses.
HSE University-St Petersburg Hosts Students from 12 Countries at the International Summer School
On July 10, HSE University-St Petersburg launched the International Summer School—a series of classes for students from India, Vietnam, the Republic of Korea and other countries. Foreign guests will get to know our university, listen to lectures in six fields and enjoy the inspiring cultural programme.
'City Legends': Historian Ekaterina Kalemeneva on Her Favourite Places in St Petersburg
There are plenty of unexpected sides to St Petersburg: it is a city of writers, poets, architects, rock musicians and their admirers... It is multi-layered, but it always has a soul. Ekaterina Kalemeneva, Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, takes us on a textual walk around the city to find out where the biggest Beatles fan in the USSR lived, what Nabokov and Leningrad architects have in common, and where to find vinyl records.
International Opportunities Online: Joint Courses Bring HSE’s and International Students Together
Call for Applications for the development and delivery of joint online courses with international partner universities completed at HSE University — St. Petersburg at the end of December. Now students of five educational programmes can take courses developed by lecturers from HSE and partner universities. Students of partner universities will take the courses along with students of HSE University — St. Petersburg.
Turning times: Russia and Germany, 1980 – 2000”: a joint course organized by the Department of History and Humboldt University
In the first weeks of May and June the Department of History, Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg and Humboldt University in Berlin will organize a joint course “Turning times: Russia and Germany, 1980 – 2000” for students from both Universities.