Chapter 5.3 How are Indigenous peoples and communities in northern Yakutia affected by industrial development?

Vyacheslav I. Shadrin is a Research Fellow at The Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North (IHRISN) Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research fields are ethnic history and Indigenous issues, ethnology expertise, and climate change. He has taken an active part in Indigenous movements in Russia: he is a Chief of Council of Yukaghir Elders and 1st Vice-President of the Yakut Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North.