- List of Illustrations and Tables*
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1. Charting the Arctic Landscape
- 2. Neither Cod nor Coal
- 3. The Role of the Gulag in Arctic Conquest
- 4. The Arctic Sciences of Places and People
- 5. The Nickel That Broke the Reindeer’s Back
- 6. Transformation of Taiga and Tundra
- 7. Rediscovering the Arctic
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Illustrations and Tables
- Illustrations
- Map: Russia’s western Arctic Circle
- Map: The White Sea
- Mikhail Vodopianov flying over the North Pole
- Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin, and Otto Shmidt welcoming pilots from the Arctic, ca. 1938
- The Akademic Fedorov research ship
- Hydrological research on drift station, ca. 1937
- Krenkel, Papinin, and Shmidt at polar research station, ca. 1937
- Map: Nenets Autonomous Region and Arkhangelsk Province
- Red Teepee, Bolshezemelskaia tundra, 1960s
- Russian school age girl, in Bolshezemelskaia tundra, 1960s
- Monchegorsk industrial pollution, June 2010
- Closed mine, Kirovsk
- Construction of Lenin Square, Severodvinsk
- Winter municipal construction, Severodvinsk
- Map: Kola Peninsula
- Artur Chilingarov
- Artkika nuclear icebreaker
- Sengeiskii Island Meteorological Station, Nenets Autonomous Region
- An Arctic graveyard on Kolguev Island
- Tables
- 1.1. Early Russian/Soviet icebreakers of British manufacture
- 3.1. Leading personnel repressed, “Enemies of the People” in the Soviet Arctic, 1920–54
- 4.1. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute scientific fleet ships placed into operation, 1967–87
- 4.2. Growth of Kola Science Center, 1951–57
- 5.1. Population of circumpolar Soviet cities, 1926–present
- Illustrations
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